Run Hide Fight: Infidels

Rated PG-13 • The Daily Wire

At the beginning of 2023, Jonathan Majors’ career was taking off. He had appeared in a few critically acclaimed films, and he was playing the main villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Multiverse Saga. But everything came crashing down after he was convicted of harassment and assault.

Now, Majors seems to be launching a comeback with Run Hide Fight: Infidels.

It’s an interesting choice for an actor hoping to revive his career. The movie is streaming on the conservative outlet The Daily Wire, and in it Majors’ character must fight alongside college students to defeat a group of Muslim extremists threatening a college campus.

Is Majors a conservative now? Is he worried about the threat Islam poses to the West? By accepting this role, is he thumbing his nose at the Hollywood establishment that turned its back on him? Or did he just need some quick cash, and he wasn’t too particular where it came from? I didn’t actually expect the movie to answer any of these pressing questions, but I had hoped it would be good. It wasn’t.

The movie is saddled with a preposterous premise: A group of Muslim extremists co-opt a queer anti-Palestine movement in the hopes of establishing a new caliphate on the campus of an American university. Even with this silly setup, Run Hide Fight: Infidels could have been a taut shoot-’em-up, but the unfocused script makes pointless, and sometimes goofy, digressions, leaving the movie at least half an hour too long.

Worse still, despite The Daily Wire’s promotion of this as a Jonathan Majors film, the actor gets precious little screen time. It’s as if the studio could only afford him for a single day of shooting. Majors brings his forceful intensity to this underwritten role, but his presence for the few scenes he’s in merely magnifies the amateurish abilities of the actors playing opposite him. If your significant other tries queuing this film up, I suggest you run, hide, or fight.