Liam Neeson has stopped doing the running in The Fix, and hands the gun to Zachary Levi
Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi lead a new military action thriller blasting into cinemas today, with a rescue mission on the cards — but what’s it called?
It's not every Friday you get Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi teaming up for a spy thriller, but here we are. The Fix drops in cinemas today, chucking us into a mess of CIA rescue missions, regrets from Afghanistan and, for some reason, a run through the streets of Tehran. If you like your action with a side of brooding guilt and men in tactical jackets being Very Serious, this one will probably be up your alley.
The Fix opens in UK and US cinemas on 11 September 2026.
The brains and the brawn
Right, so what are we dealing with? The film was cooked up by Bazzel Baz—not just a man with a name for espionage, but an actual former CIA Spec Ops veteran. Director Guy Moshe (and co-writer Mark Bacci) spun Baz's pitch into a feature about a botched operation in Afghanistan that leaves a small team of ex-agents wanting to make things right. Levi leads as Tucker, the sort who probably never misses arms day, with Neeson as Larry, his world-weary mentor who, you get the impression, has seen some things he'd rather not discuss over Sunday roast.
Shooting, sweating, and Georgian mud
The supporting cast is worth a shout—Annet Mahendru, Grant Harvey, Augusto Aguilera, and Elnaaz Norouzi all fill in roles that let Neeson and Levi worry a bit less about who's carrying the emotional weight. Most of the shoot went down in the Republic of Georgia, which doubles for various international hotspots and gave the cast an authentic dose of foxholes, grit and, apparently, character-building weather. Levi put it like this in an interview with WCNC:
You're in the trenches, the foxholes with your cast and crew, particularly if you are in a foreign place like the Republic of Georgia, where we were for most of the filming, and we were blessed to have a great crew in Georgia and the folks that all flew in. It's like your own little army, and you go to war to go make these things a reality.
Levi also promised there's more in the tank than gunfights and covert getaways, hyping up the story as "layered in drama and action and mystery and twists and turns and the humanity that underlies all of it." (His words, not mine.) Neeson, meanwhile, admitted he signed on because Moshe's script managed to smuggle some soul in amongst all the usual mercenary stuff, saying he was intrigued by the military authenticity Moshe brought from his own late-'90s special ops stint.
If you're thinking "haven't we seen this type of thing before?"—got to admit, yes, but it's not every day Neeson and Levi get to play with guns together (on screen, at least). Early reviews have been a mixed bag, but it's in cinemas now if you fancy seeing who makes it out of Tehran in one piece.