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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Andrew Lawrence

Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda

Jonathan Majors, in character, stares intently in a close-up with a serious expression
Jonathan Majors in Run Hide Fight: Infidels. Photograph: The Daily Wire

Behold the new and improved Jonathan Majors: paragon of hypermasculinity, the Denzel Washington of the Daily Wire, a Delta Force veteran forced back into action when his war on terror follows him on to home soil. Against all odds, he has tracked his way back to the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed analogue who killed his partner as the Americans were debating whether to bring the criminal mastermind to justice or execute him on the spot. Our Fox News jihadi has no doubt Captain Saunders will respect the letter of the law again. “The American way is your taskforces and your trials,” the enemy hisses. “Your climate change and your abortions – ”

Blam! A bullet cuts him down mid-monologue, and the camera pushes in as Captain Saunders lowers his semi-automatic rifle. “Actually, that’s the American way,” he says.

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