Thrills and spills in Fight Or Flight, Another Simple Favor

Disgraced former Secret Service agent Lucas Reyes (Josh Hartnett) has a shot at redemption when tapped by his ex-boss (Katee Sackhoff) for a mission: He is to track down a mysterious cyber terrorist known as "The Ghost" on a trans-Pacific flight and take him or her into custody back to the United States.

- Whang Yee Ling

FIGHT OR FLIGHT (M18) 102 minutes, opens on May 15 ★★★★★ The story: Turns out just about every passenger on-board is a crazed assassin after this high-value asset.

Is no transportation safe any longer? Fight Or Flight is Brad Pitt's Bullet Train (2022) at 37,000 feet.

The airborne action comedy is absurdly entertaining despite the familiar concept, its violence so nuts, the only response is to laugh. Barely has the seatbelt sign been switched off and a skull is skewered, grey matter splattered across the first-class toilet.

And speaking of seatbelt, it is repurposed for strangling. Arms are snapped, ribs are crushed by meal trolleys and an eye speared by a broken champagne flute once the international mercenaries leap from their seats to begin competing for their bounty.

This is not the sort of movie to ask how a chainsaw got past airport security. The more immediate concern is Lucas having to keep both himself and his target alive.