“It’s Saigon all over again,” glowers Liam Neeson early in Guy Moshe’s action-thriller The Fix. His character, CIA agent Larry, has just overseen a 2021 Special Ops rescue mission in Kabul that’s gone disastrously, as these things are often prone to do. The chaotic, violence-laden sequence is but the first of many in a film that aspires to classic Hollywood action movie status but reduces its effectiveness through overkill of both the literal and figurative kind. It’s no wonder Larry is shown to be suffering from debilitating migraine headaches.
Cut to several years later, when Tucker (Zachary Levi), the Special Ops group leader, visits his old handler to discover that he’s now suffering from an advanced stage of dementia. But Larry remembers enough to tell Tucker about $25 million in cash that was left behind in the Hotel Tehran (the film’s previous, more effective title) during the Iranian Revolution. The bitter, disillusioned Tucker, estranged from his wife and young son because of his years of absence overseas, decides to round up the members of his old unit and embark on a mission to retrieve the money.
The Fix
The Bottom Line
Effective until overkill sets in.
