Name: The Fix
Director: Guy Moshe
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2026-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 142 min
Cast: Zachary Levi, Liam Neeson, Wes Chatham, Titus Welliver, Navid Negahban

A crew of ex-CIA operators, discarded by the agency they once bled for, slips into Tehran to pull off a score that nobody sanctioned. That is the spine of The Fix, an action thriller that hands Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi the roles of a weathered handler and his wrecked protégé, two men who walk back into hostile territory because the alternative is living with everything they were ordered to do.

Director Guy Moshe stages the film as a heist folded inside a rescue, set in a city Western intelligence officers are not supposed to enter on foot. Disillusionment is the fuel. Neeson plays Larry, the mentor to a team marked by violence, abandonment and guilt; Levi plays Tucker, the scarred field leader who drags them on a run that tests whether obedience or defiance is the braver act once the wars that made them have wound down.

Moshe, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mark Bacci, builds from an idea credited to Bazzel Baz, a former CIA officer whose background gives the project its pitch of authenticity. The film spent part of its development under the working title Hotel Tehran before settling on The Fix, a change that shifts the emphasis from a location to a transaction, and to the moral debt the operators are trying to settle.

The setup leans on a specific disillusionment. These are operators shaped by the long campaign in Afghanistan, cut loose as that conflict wound down and left to reckon with orders they can no longer justify. The Tehran job, framed as a life-changing payday and a rescue at once, becomes their attempt to reclaim some agency after years of being pointed at targets by other people. Whether that is redemption or just another mission dressed up as one is the question the title keeps needling.

It is the most commercially exposed swing yet for a filmmaker who has favored stylized genre work. Moshe broke through with the drama Holly and the hyper-designed martial-arts fantasia Bunraku, and later made the ensemble piece Goodbye World and the science-fiction drama LX 2048. The Fix trades that formalism for something leaner and more mainstream, an adult action picture pitched at theaters rather than festivals.

Levi, still identified with lighter, comic-forward parts, is cast against type as the burnt-out Tucker, while Neeson does the thing he has turned into a genre unto itself, grounding the ensemble as the older man who understands the price of every order he gives. The supporting ranks are deep: Wes Chatham, Titus Welliver, Navid Negahban, Annet Mahendru, Grant Harvey, Augusto Aguilera and Numan Acar play specialists, handlers and adversaries, with Negahban’s Qasim and Mahendru’s Sophie among the named figures on opposite sides of the operation.

For Neeson, the film slots neatly into the lane he has occupied since he reinvented himself as an unlikely action lead, a run of grizzled avengers and reluctant professionals that has proved remarkably durable at the box office. Pairing him with Levi, an actor a generation younger and known for a very different register, is the clearest bet the production makes: that the contrast between the two will carry scenes the plot mechanics cannot.

What none of the marketing can answer yet is whether The Fix has anything to say about the country it uses as a stage. A story about American operatives breaching Tehran carries unavoidable political weight, and the trailers lean on kinetics rather than context. With no press screenings held and no critical response on the record, the film’s ambitions are still just claims. It may interrogate the redemption-through-violence formula that has shaped so much of Neeson’s recent output, or it may reprint that formula with a new city stamped on the cover.

The balance the production has chosen, part war-guilt drama and part genre heist, is a demanding one. Lean too far toward the score and the moral stakes evaporate; lean too far toward the guilt and the promised set pieces stall. Moshe’s earlier films suggest a director comfortable with heightened style, which could either sharpen the tension or gloss over the harder questions the premise raises about who gets to be redeemed, and at whose expense.

Behind the camera sits a sprawl of independent financiers, among them Astral Future, Dreamtime Entertainment and Oakhurst Entertainment, the kind of stacked cap table that signals mid-budget independent ambition rather than studio backing. Briarcliff Entertainment is steering the theatrical release, betting that an adult-skewing action title with two recognizable leads can still command screens in a marketplace that has largely surrendered them to franchises.

The Fix runs a little over two hours and reaches United States theaters on September 11, 2026, with Spain to follow on September 18 under the title Operación Teherán. No Mexican or Brazilian release date has been confirmed. Whether the film earns its Tehran or merely borrows it, that is when the first verdicts will land.