Sep 10, 2026 1:50pm PT
‘The Fix’ Film Review: Ex-CIA Operatives Try To Rescue an Iranian Dissident in a Polished but Uneven Action Thriller
Guy Moshe’s film hews a convoluted path from Kabul to Tehran, embroiling Zachary Levi, Liam Neeson and others in a muddled mix of gung-ho heroics and contrived intrigue.
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Having been shot well before the current U.S.-Iran conflict commenced lends “The Fix” a somewhat anachronistic air, albeit one that sits comfortably enough between its other fuzzy points of political messaging. This U.S. production from Israeli writer-director Guy Moshe sets a group of former CIA Special Ops agents, led by Zachary Levi, on a dangerous undercover mission in Tehran. With dissident activists, hidden pre-Islamic Republic wealth, much gunplay and multiple double-crosses all involved, this polished, somewhat ungainly thriller emerges an entertaining yet less-than-fully satisfying mix of macho action heroics and convoluted espionage intrigue. In the long run it falls short of its own tangled ambitions. But Moshe and co. do make these nearly two-and-a-half hours pass in diverting if not terrifically suspenseful fashion.
