They may well be huge metallic objects in the sky that defy gravity, yet flying by plane is still considered one of the safest modes of transport there is.

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2024, the risk of dying in a plane crash was one in 13.7 million passengers, which sounds like fairly decent odds.

Of course they don’t consider certain anomalies, such as snakes or prisoners getting loose and causing havoc, which often take place on board planes in films.

This is yet another one to add to that list, which would certainly have you consider your carbon footprint if you found yourself to be one of the unlucky passengers, despite Josh Hartnett being present on board.

Having spent two years in the wilderness, ex-Secret Service agent Lucas Reyes (Hartnett) finds himself in Bangkok, hitting the bottle hard.

Then, he gets a call, out of the blue, from his ex Katherine Brunt (Katee Sackhoff), saying that his services are needed – immediately. He is the only person close to a developing situation, where someone known as the ‘ghost’ is about to board a flight in Bangkok to San Francisco, and they are in possession of some tech that is important to national security.

Lucas isn’t interested, but is persuaded when Brunt promises him a clean start.

Soon Lucas finds himself on board, but he doesn’t know who the ‘ghost’ is, making protecting them difficult. To make matters worse, Lucas soon learns that the flight is full of assassins, who are keen on killing them both, which means Lucas is going to be kept pretty busy keeping himself and the ‘ghost’ alive.

This marks the directorial debut for James Madigan, and it’s a pretty memorable one. It is ludicrously silly but has an undeniable sense of frantic fun about it. You would think that there was very little left of any originality to do on a plane, but having it filled with assassins all with murderous intent makes for an entertaining feature.

It has slight whiffs of Kill, an action flick primarily set on a train, but shot by someone heavily influenced by early Edgar Wright.

Hartnett has had a peculiar career to date; he has all the dashing attributes of a Hollywood leading man, and yet he’s never had that breakout hit that cements him as a AAA talent. And even though this isn’t it for the 46-year-old actor, it’s evident that he has an incredible amount of fun with this role, as a flawed, all-out action hero.

Thankfully the film never takes itself seriously, and nor should it, as it soars knowingly into the realms of absurdity, with a shit-grin all over its face.

The story gets tied up in knots unnecessarily, and time away from the plane often slows the pacing down, but this may well be to compensate for not having a Hollywood budget in play, as this is a Sky Original.

Madigan, whose background up until this point has been in visual effects, as well as second unit or assistant director, has made an impressive transition to the hot seat, with this outrageous debut that is filled to the brim with over-the-top gory action.

So take a seat and buckle up for some seriously silly in-flight entertainment that packs quite a punch.