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The Fix movie review: Liam Neeson, Zachary Levi’s geopolitical thriller loses the plot
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The Fix movie review: Liam Neeson, Zachary Levi’s geopolitical thriller loses the plot

The Indian Express·Shalini Langer·about 9 hours ago
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The Fix movie review: Liam Neeson may be a big part of the film promotions, but in the film, he plays a minor, if ponderous, role.

The Fix movie review: It doesn’t matter if it ain’t broken, trust good red-blooded Americans to try fix it. If it is in the larger direction of the Middle East, don’t bother keeping them away.

Here, Tucker (Zachary Levi) and his gang (Wes Chatham, Jake Choi, Augusto Aguilera, Quincy Isaiah) fly into the embers of a US intervention gone south in, first, Afghanistan, and then Iran. In Kabul, it is 2021, as America is making a hasty retreat in the face of a resurgent Taliban. In Iran, in a lucky or unlucky (depending on your geographical location) break for the film, the war is still not on the horizon. However, the Revolutionary Guards are villainous enough to justify Tucker’s excursion.

That is just one of the many motives The Fix suggests for the actions of this group of Americans.…

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