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Extraction First Reviews: Chris Hemsworth Anchors a Brutal, Action-Packed Thriller

Critics say the russo brothers-produced rescue mission is relentlessly violent, but it benefits from hemsworth's talents and a mindblowing single-take action set-piece..

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At a time when movie theaters are shuttered, Netflix delivers blockbuster action with Extraction , the feature directorial debut of Avengers: Endgame stunt supervisor Sam Hargrave . The movie is scripted by Endgame co-director Joe Russo and produced by him and his filmmaking partner brother Anthony while Marvel’s Thor, Chris Hemsworth , leads the nearly non-stop fight sequences as a mercenary rescuing a drug lord’s son. Early reviews are mixed, but almost every one highlights a single, lengthy one-take set piece that’s worth the price of subscription.

Here’s what critics are saying about Extraction :

Will action movie fans enjoy it ?

If you’re a fan of action films like John Wick , Atomic Blonde , or The Raid then you’ll be more than pleased with Extraction . – Matt Rodriguez, Shakefire

The constant, spectacular violence [doesn’t] quite rival John Wick ’s mirror games or murder-by-library book for creativity but nearly make up for it in casual brutality. – Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

Extraction exhibits an ingenious, sometimes amusingly irreverent approach to action… and it features the most enjoyable scene of a grown man beating up children since Bad Santa . – Emma Simmonds, The List

This has all the momentum and kinetic violence of a Bourne movie. – Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior

What actually sets the film apart from other mainstream action movies is the sadistic gnarliness of the violence, which appears heavily inspired by Indonesian action flicks. – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

[The action scenes] will be hard to top this year, even if blockbusters were coming out as normal. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

How is that one action sequence everyone’s talking about ?

It’s a breathtaking and relentless showcase of craft and skill, made all the more impressive by it being done largely in camera with minimal CGI. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

It’s an impressive logistical achievement of blocking, framing, camera movement, choreography, and, yes editing. – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

Would surely have sent a packed house into rapturous applause had the film been released in theaters… Viewers at home might unleash a silent cheer. – Rohan Naahar, Hindustan Times

It’s an impressive feat, but — like much of this steroidal misfire — the shot is too enthralled by its own capacity for violence to have any real fun with it. – David Ehrlich, IndieWire

While the choreography does a good job of making Hemsworth look like a badass killer, it’s painfully repetitive — a lot of AK fire, defenestration, and knifing. – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

We’ve now reached the point where we need to march these long takes behind the back of the barn and put one in the brain. – David Jenkins, Little White Lies

(Photo by Jasin Boland/Netflix)

How does the movie look?

Hargrave blocks and shoots the altercations in such a way that audiences can quickly read what’s happening. Rake fights dirty, but the coverage is clean, emphasizing what an efficient improviser he is in the moment. – Peter Debruge, Variety

It’s a good thing the film’s geography is so dynamic, because most scenes in Extraction are only differentiated by how people die. – David Ehrlich, IndieWire

Bathed in a sickly yellow filter from beginning to end, Extraction is often as ugly as its subject matter. – Chris Evangelista, Slashfilm

Dhaka is made to look suitably anonymous, and the only visual signpost that we’re in Bangladesh is that everything is shot through urine-tinged filters. – David Jenkins, Little White Lies

How is Sam Hargrave’s directing?

Hargrave has a gift for directing… Frankly, nothing about Extraction looks like a first-time feature. – Douglas Davidson, Elements of Madness

Hargrave knows to preserve the bodily integrity of his actors and stunt performers, rather than cutting every movement into bits. – Pat Brown, Slant Magazine

As a director, Hargrave shows more proficiency than personality in the action set pieces, though they are still preferable to the dialogue scenes. – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

He knows how to craft a strong action scene. The problem is finding a synergy between the action and the story that comes in between, which is where Extraction continually comes up short. – Matthew Passantino, Big Picture Big Sound

Chris Hemsworth and Rudhraksh Jaiswal in Extraction

How about the script?

In addition to being a spectacular action film, Extraction also happens to be a well-written drama as well. – Rohan Naahar, Hindustan Times

The plot feels like reheated leftovers from a hundred other movies about sullen warriors seeking redemption. – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

Extraction does get a little bogged down by its story… Regardless, the story is ancillary to the action, which Extraction more than delivers on. – Matt Rodriguez, Shakefire

The premise is pretty thin… Still, Extraction is about 90% action, so if the drama doesn’t work, you’re still left with a lot that does. – Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Emporium

Is it a big departure for the Russos?

It’s fitting that so many Marvel people are involved because Rake is a nearly unstoppable one man army and while there are no superpowers, he practically is superhuman. – Matt Rodriguez, Shakefire

This may be the closest you’ll get to super-heroics for a while and it’s a pretty solid substitute. – Emma Simmonds, The List

The hyperbolically skilled soldier who brutalizes dozens of ragtag gangsters in a rundown apartment building essentially performs the same feats as the superhero dispatching hundreds of CG creatures in a crumbling city—and is borne no less of childish fantasies about the order of the world. – Pat Brown, Slant Magazine

Joe Russo’s screenplay is lean, but the manner in which the plot is structured — streamlined yet brimming with backstory — feels both classic and very comic booky. – Rohan Naahar, Hindustan Times

How is Chris Hemsworth?

Hemsworth proves he can grimace while double-tapping assault rifles with the best of them. – Pat Brown, Slant Magazine

Honestly, of the performances we’ve seen from Hemsworth, this might be his best. – Douglas Davidson, Elements of Madness

Hemsworth has clearly found his stride as an action hero when not playing Thor… I definitely like Hemsworth more as an actor than others who may have played this sort of role, such as Bruce Willis or Jason Statham, etc. – Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior

While Extraction certainly takes advantage of Hemsworth’s godlike physique, it wastes the boyish charm that made his presence in Thor: Ragnarok and Ghostbusters so likable. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

It’s just fun to see Hemsworth dropping F-bombs and taking part in brutal action that would never been seen in the MCU. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

Are there any other standouts in the cast?

The supporting cast is unusually strong… I was really impressed with Bollywood star Randeep Hooda. – Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Emporium

Rudhraksh Jaiswal impresses as Ovi in his first major role and Randeep Hooda gives all he’s got as Saju, a character who’s put through the wringer more than any other. – Patrick Cremona, Radio Times

Golshifteh Farahani brings the briefest moments of female energy as Tyler’s levelheaded handler. – Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

David Harbour shows up as one of Tyler’s old buddies and makes the most of an extremely limited role. We’ve seen Harbour play this type of character before, but he’s still fun to watch. – Chris Evangelista, Slashfilm

What are the film’s major issues?

It’s a vision of foreign brutality treated as wholly interchangeable, without the weight of political or social consciousness. – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent

It would be wrong to call this film nihilistic, but it’s also so unconcerned with collateral damage that it begins to border on irresponsible. – Chris Evangelista, Slashfilm

Is it a worthy substitute for going to the movies right now?

Without question, Extraction is the theatrical experience audiences have longed for since cinemas shut down, and it’s available right in their homes. – Douglas Davidson, Elements of Madness

Every bit as entertaining as the equivalent pyrotechnic offering from a theatrical motion picture studio might have been. – Peter Debruge, Variety

It’s that rare Netflix movie where you really wish you could have seen it on the big screen as it’s blockbuster-level action. – Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy

I would have loved to see this on the big screen… It’s just so much more fun seeing movies like this one with an audience. – Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior

Would I recommend someone pay $15 to see Extraction in a movie theater? Probably not… Netflix offers you the ability to really savor that one great action sequence. – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

Extraction premieres on Netflix on Friday, April 24.

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Extraction Reviews

In the end, Extraction is going to be remembered for its insane action and a fantastic lead performance by Chris Hemsworth.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2023

Ultimately unable to escape its genre roots... it is difficult not to enjoy a film where a man called Rake kills two men with a rake!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2022

It doesn’t want to be character study or a think piece. It’s not interested in commentary or metaphors. Instead “Extraction” is a throwback to the better action movies of the late 80’s to mid-90s. It’s straightforward, unapologetic, and an absolute blast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

With its fidgety two-hour runtime and the nonstop procession of gunfire and explosions, Extraction grows tedious, largely as a fault of the screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 20, 2022

Extraction never quite reaches the level of a great film. But, it is a film that channels the action films of yesteryear to provide much-needed quarantine entertainment for all cinephiles.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2022

The action is mostly clean and precise, a clear indication of Hargrave's foundation and the respect he has for what these stunt people do.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2021

Dumb, derivative and far too serious, Chris Hemsworth's latest is still a whole heap of fun...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2021

Extraction is one of those mostly brainless action movies that is best enjoyed for the intensity of its fight and chase scenes. If you can focus on those and not the story, you're in for a fun time.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2021

It's nothing we hadn't seen before, but when it comes to its action and its stunt work, it's something we haven't seen done this well for quite some time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Hits like a ton of bricks...dumb as a sack of rocks.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2021

'Extraction' is indeed full of shootouts, fight sequences and chase scenes. The body count is relentless. But amid all of the action, the relationship between fathers and sons is at the heart of the film.

Full Review | Jan 27, 2021

"Extraction" is a bone-rattling, epic fifteen rounds of urban warfare rescue mission with a soulful and redemptive career-best dramatic performance from Hemsworth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2020

Despite Extraction's issues with a very minimal story, it's a lot of fun. The action is a non-stop, hyperventilating barrage of greatness.

Full Review | Nov 18, 2020

One does have to watch a lot of the stuntwork through a kind of veil of ineffective camera set-ups and poor visual storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2020

Extraction won't revolutionize the action genre, but it shows that leaving the ones who get the punches in charge of the action is a good idea. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 16, 2020

It's a brutal, pretty joyless action movie that aims to awe with visceral action. But once you get beyond all the bullets and mayhem, you quickly realise that the film doesn't have much else to offer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 28, 2020

When you're watching a blood-soaked Hemsworth slash and shoot his way through dozens of bad guys, it's difficult to have too many complaints.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2020

Patterns are only good to a certain extent. The movie is hilariously predictable. The true and only star is it's stuntman made director Sam Hargrave. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 20, 2020

It's an action thriller that operates with the conventional mechanisms of the genre and does not have the slightest intention of bringing some strength to the plot of the mercenary trapped by his past. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 5, 2020

Hemsworth's leading charisma is enough to keep you glued to this (occasionally magnetic) thrill ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jul 28, 2020

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"F--k" frequently used. "Motherf----r" also used.

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This is basically a feature-length military skirmish on the streets, buildings, and bridges of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Bare-bones character development. With one exception (the kidnapped teen son of a drug kingpin), the main characters are either mercenaries, drug kingpins, drug kingpin baddies, or corrupt military officials.

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While there is a story, it's essentially a first-person shooter game turned into a feature-length film. Teen boy shot in head at point-blank range by corrupt police officer. Fighting with automatic weapons, sniper rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, rakes. Face impaled through tines of rake. Stabbings, blood. Character fixes his broken nose over a bathroom sink; blood. Teen thrown off building by drug kingpin's henchman. Trying to curry favor with drug kingpin, teen boy cuts off one of his fingers (not shown), presents it to the kingpin wrapped in gauze. Characters jump off buildings, get hit by vehicles.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Extraction is a 2020 action movie that's based on a graphic novel and has Chris Hemsworth playing a mercenary sent to Bangladesh to rescue the son of a drug kingpin from another drug kingpin. This movie is extremely violent, and there are parts that feel more like a first-person shooter game than a movie with a storyline. A teen boy is shot in the head at point-blank range and falls down dead in front of his friends. Characters fight with everything from sniper and assault rifles to rocket launchers and swords, and there's a bloody scene in which a character is killed when his face is shoved through the tines of a rake. A teen boy is thrown off a building by the henchman of a drug kingpin. A teen boy trying to impress a drug kingpin cuts off one of his fingers and presents it to the kingpin wrapped in gauze. Characters fall off buildings and get hit by vehicles; blood and injuries are shown. Frequent profanity is heard, including "f--k" and "motherf----r." Teens smoke marijuana, and there's beer drinking and alcohol drinking. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In EXTRACTION , Tyler Rake ( Chris Hemsworth ) is a mercenary living in the Australian Outback, drinking too much and trying to forget his past. When Ovi Mahajan Jr., teen son of imprisoned Indian drug kingpin Ovi Mahajan Sr. is kidnapped and held for ransom by Amir, the biggest drug lord in Bangladesh, Rake is offered the mission to rescue the teen and return him to safety. Desperate for money, and finding little worth living for, Rake accepts the mission and soon lands in Dhaka. After escaping a kidnap attempt by Amir's crew and then rescuing Ovi, Rake must fight against not only more of Amir's people, but also the police and military authorities paid off by Amir, and Ovi's former bodyguard, who might also be trying to steal Ovi from Rake in order to protect his own family. In the midst of this carnage, Rake begins to feel an unexpected paternal care for Ovi that extends beyond the mission, even when an old mercenary pal of Rake's tells him that they can kill Ovi and collect a $10 million reward. Now Rake must try to survive the consequences of his decision, and get Ovi to the extraction point to safety: a bridge between Bangladesh and India.

Is It Any Good?

While the one-take battle sequences are exciting and impressive, the overall story is a shopworn formula from beginning to end. The hero is both strong and silent, and he's also conflicted between the lucrative mission and the pangs of his conscience. Extraction tries to add a third dimension to this action hero (and with a name like "Tyler Rake," you know he's not going to be an insurance salesman in some suburb) through the untimely death of a young son, but it feels as forced and obligatory as scenes in which the bad guys are shown to be bad by throwing kids off of roofs. Overall, the movie feels more like a first-person shooter game than a movie, and even with the requisite plot twists and expected betrayals, what ultimately emerges is the constant barrage of urban warfare in a developing country.

The story is at its best in the chemistry between Hemsworth and Rudhraksh Jaiswal, who does an excellent job of playing a teen trying to live a normal life but caught in a traumatic situation due to circumstances far beyond his control. That said, even this chemistry, like every other plot point in the story, is overwhelmed by the bombastic violence. And the ending comes across as a cynical attempt to have it both ways with the audience. It's fine for action-movie escapist fare, but throughout, one gets the feeling that the movie wouldn't have been that much different if they had just dispensed with a story altogether.

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Movie Details

On DVD or streaming : April 24, 2020
Cast : Chris Hemsworth , David Harbour , Golshifteh Farahani
Director : Sam Hargrave
Inclusion Information : Female actors, Middle Eastern/North African actors
Studio : Netflix
Genre : Action/Adventure
Run time : 116 minutes
MPAA rating : R
MPAA explanation : strong bloody violence throughout, language and brief drug use
Last updated : February 18, 2023

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‘Extraction’ Review: All Fight, No Fun

The debut feature by Sam Hargrave serves up a barrage of bullets and blown-up cars in a properly global thriller.

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‘Extraction’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Sam hargrave narrates a sequence from his netflix action film starring chris hemsworth..

“Hi. My name is Sam Hargrave, director of ‘Extraction.’ So at this point, we’re in the middle of what we would term a oner. It’s a long continuous shot that we came up with, a way to do that kind of a unique chase scene. And we’re escaping with Chris Hemsworth, who plays Tyler Rake, and Rudhraksh Jaiswal who plays that Ovi.” “Alright, kid, you trust me?” “No.” “Good.” “This jump— and at that moment, we had a stitch. So we could infuse our actors into the action and then use the doubles for the dangerous part. And for that jump, I was actually on a wire leaping behind our stunt doubles. And coming down those stairs, that’s me running backwards with a camera, trying to keep our actors in frame, keep up with their speed, not fall on my butt. We work our way through this whole series of hallways. And when we enter this room, we actually, on that door kick, we moved to another location. So that’s a different day of shooting, different time.” “Stay on my shoulder, all right?” “And this fight here, we’ve got Randeep Hooda and Chris Hemsworth going at it. They spent weeks rehearsing together. Because the beauty of this is it looks sloppy. It looks like they’re struggling for their lives. And it looks messy. But that comes from hours of rehearsal so they could put the acting into this. So again, here, we build in a hidden cut where we can put the doubles in. And as you see, the camera goes down with them. Again, that’s me on a wire, jumping over a balcony, and gliding down with them. And for that, we kind of set that all up. We built the balcony. It didn’t exist. We parked the truck in the right place. And the stunt team rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed to get the timing of that right and the distancing. And it was really challenging to kind of keep both actors in frame for that fall just because the nature of the jump. I mean, I’m on a wire, trying to jump with a camera, keep them in frame. And then when we land in the streets, what we thought would be really fun was to have the actors interacting with the environment, the vehicles passing by. This is just a day in the life of for these people. But these guys are locked in a life and death struggle with knives. And yet, life goes on. You know, this is busy street. People are watching like they’ve gone to the cinema. And you know, again, this hours of rehearsal with these two actors so that we could have the intensity that we needed. And then a little shock value here.” [GRUNTING] [CAR SCREECHES] “The thing that was interesting about this moment is, and what we tried to do to make kind of a unique perspective, was do what people aren’t expecting, which you take out your hero. Just take him out of the fight. And then focus on the bad guy. And we just thought it was fun, a different way to kind of follow action was to leave your hero out of it. So you’re thinking, wait, what happened to Rake? Is he going to come back? And you know, leave people wanting more.”

By Devika Girish

An action thriller powered by brute force rather than ideas or style, “Extraction” stars Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, a mercenary dispatched to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to retrieve the kidnapped son of a crime lord (the Bollywood stalwart Pankaj Tripathi) from a competing gang. After a perfunctory setup — the criminals are all in cahoots with the cops, and the kingpin is up to his own manipulative tricks — the film gets right down to business, serving up a relentless barrage of blood, bullets and blown-up cars.

“Extraction” ( streaming on Netflix ) is the debut feature by Sam Hargrave, who’s worked as a stunt coordinator on several Marvel movies. Although not a superhero film, it shares the genre’s familiar muddled morality: Tyler is painted as a stereotypical good bad guy, tortured by personal tragedy and redeemed by his mission, even as he kills and maims some teenage minions in the process. Randeep Hooda plays his foil, a kingpin deputy whose ruthlessly efficient violence is inflected by its own, corny undercurrent of paternal pathos. David Harbour also appears briefly, adding to the film’s lineup of tortured machos.

The fight scenes are plastic and glossy. Hargrave mistakes gore for cool and technical prowess for choreography, deploying overlong one-take shots that look like “Call of Duty” outtakes. He does commit to the location, though, creating a properly global thriller with a fine ensemble cast. Much of the dialogue is in Hindi and Bengali, and the Bollywood actors — particularly Hooda, as well as Priyanshu Painyuli as a swaggering mob boss — lift the dull proceedings, delivering their lines with a hint of melodrama. They’re a tease for how fun this movie could have been if it weren’t so somber.

Rated R for gratuitous gore and violence. In English, Hindi and Bengali, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 56 minutes. Watch on Netflix .

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Chris Hemsworth brings in the pain in blunt Netflix thriller Extraction : Review

Ask not what your ruthless movie mercenary can do for you; ask if there's a puppy or a small child he can rescue to redeem his broken soul.

Like John Wick , The Professional , and other films before it, Extraction is the story of a flinty-eyed assassin undone by softer animals — a traumatized tween , perchance, or a tender pitbull — but otherwise undimmed in his pitiless bloodlust.

Like Wick , too, its extreme action arrives via a first-time director who made his name in large-scale stunt coordinating: here, Marvel veteran Sam Hargrave ( Avengers , Deadpool , Thor: Ragnorak ). He gives the movie its blunt, bone-crunching appeal, though it’s largely up to Chris Hemsworth to humanize its laconic hero, an Australian commando improbably named Tyler Rake.

Rake, unsurprisingly, is a man of action, not words: When some shadowy international syndicate calls on him to rescue an Indian drug lord’s son from a rival in Dhaka, he brusquely agrees, for a fee. So what if that means blazing a trail through the city that leaves bodies piled up like so many discarded pixie sticks in the Bangladeshi dust? Extraction is a dirty job, mate.

The boy at least — a shy, gentle kid named Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) — seems nothing like his imprisoned father, or the brooding consigliere assigned to protect him, Saju (Bollywood star Randeep Hooda). He’s also the only one even remotely phased by the constant, spectacular violence unfolding on screen: a series of savagely efficient kills that don’t quite rival John Wick’s mirror games or murder-by-library book for creativity, but nearly make up for it in casual brutality.

Accordingly, Ovi spends most of the movie just trying to catch his breath — which makes him the ideal proxy for an audience whose own appetites for destruction will probably be the best indicator of how much they'll enjoy what's happening here. It’s not that the movie lacks for subplots or secondary characters: Stranger Things ’ David Harbour shows up as fellow mercenary and possible frenemy, and Priyanshu Painyuli’s Amir Asif makes for a suitably oily kingpin, part playboy, part barbarian; Golshifteh Farahani ( Paterson ) brings the briefest moments of female energy as Tyler’s levelheaded handler.

It's the tentative friendship between Tyler and Ovi, of course, that separates all this from what can otherwise often feel like an exceptionally cinematic round of Call of Duty. For the most part, Hargrave handles that storyline with admirable restraint — skirting sentimentality in the present tense, though he can't quite stop himself from inserting a few shimmery flashbacks to Tyler's tragic past. And he misses the opportunity, too, to let Hemsworth flex his proven comedic bona fides; one well-timed Goonies joke aside, the actor hardly has the chance.

Instead, Extraction mostly delivers what its swaggering trailer promises: international scenery; insidious villains; a taciturn, tree-trunk Aussie. And the comfort of knowing that the kids — or at least the one he came for — are probably alright. B

Extraction Review

24 Apr 2020

The first thing you should know about Extraction is that, yes, Chris Hemsworth’s character in this relentless actioner is called Tyler Rake, and yes, in a triumph for nominative determinism, he actually kills a couple of bad guys with a rake. So we should probably thank our lucky stars that he wasn’t called Keith Dildo.

The sight of Hemsworth going nuts with a garden implement in a manner that would frankly appall Alan Titchmarsh, seconds after laying waste to an entire room of bad guys, is proof positive, if you hadn’t already twigged after half an hour of bloody headshots and bloodier language, that this latest collaboration between the Australian man-mountain and the Russo brothers is miles away from the Avengers and their japes with capes. Hemsworth’s Rake isn’t so much Thor, more thucking thurious.

We first meet Rake in media res, as is the vogue, before whipping back to a calmer time, pre-mayhem. He’s the sort of guy who leaps into a lagoon and sits contemplatively underwater. It’s clear that Rake has issues. He has a Tortured Past. He has Nightmare Flashback Disorder. But he’s also a pure killing machine, part-Terminator, part-Jack Reacher. Which comes in handy when Rake finds himself the target of not just a formidable Bangladeshi gang, but corrupt cops and soldiers too.

When Hemsworth goes full John Wick in intricately choreographed showdowns, Extraction is bruising, brutal knockabout fun.

It’s here where Hemsworth, and director Sam Hargrave, graduating to the director’s chair after stunt duties on the Russos’ Marvel movies and directing the second unit on Avengers: Endgame , show off their action muscle. Literally and figuratively. Hargrave was instrumental in mounting Atomic Blonde ’s incredible one-shot action sequence, and it shows. Even if this film’s own much ballyhooed oner, which follows Rake in a running battle with a rival and takes in foot chases and car chases and tense stand-offs (oh, my), doesn’t quite match Atomic Blonde or, more recently, 1917 , it’s still an entertaining exercise in immersing the audience in Rake’s desperate fight for survival. And when Hemsworth goes full John Wick and starts demolishing entire squadrons in intricately choreographed showdowns, using nothing but brawn and a boatload of bullets, Extraction is bruising, brutal knockabout fun.

It’s when the film slows down that it perhaps doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Twists are fairly telegraphed, clichés are flirted with and, apart from a speech which cements Rake’s relationship with Ovi (Rudraksh Jaiswal), the young kid whose life the mercenary is protecting at all costs, we barely get to know the main character. And while Hemsworth is skilful at suggesting the chasm of pain that drives him, it’s interesting that writer Joe Russo lets us peer more into the inner life of one of the supporting characters, Randeep Hooda’s Suraj, as he becomes embroiled in the hunt for Rake and Ovi.

That’s an admirable result of the decision to stage the action in Dhaka. The hurly-burly of the Bangladeshi city’s streets, with tuk-tuks and scooters hurtling about with wild abandon (leading to a particularly funny moment in a tense face-off), give Extraction a look and feel unlike any other recent American action movies. There’s an interesting sub-plot about a young kid getting in over his head with a drug dealer, which perhaps deserved more screen time. And the supporting cast that Hargrave (who also cameos as a kind of living beard that can kill people from a thousand yards) assembles around Hemsworth is filled with interesting names and faces — Priyanshu Painyuli, Jaiswal, Shataf Figar — that Western audiences might be glimpsing for the first time. Hopefully, not the last.

There’s always a danger, in a scenario like this, of Rake adding White Saviour Syndrome to the Tortured Past and Nightmare Flashbacks Disorder. Hargrave and his big-name producers (including, of course, Hemsworth) seem very aware of that. So, for much of the film, Rake sees Ovi merely as a commodity to keep alive and, when the emotional stakes are raised, he’s not the only character striving to keep the boy from a bullet. Whether that’s enough to avoid the perception of a white hero bludgeoning his way into an Asian city and saving the day is still very much up for debate. But Extraction has been conceived as a star vehicle for Hemsworth, an excellent actor who’s perhaps struggled for a signature role outside of Thor. And there’s little doubt that he rises admirably to the occasion, never more so than when reminding wave after wave of bad guys that — just as Sideshow Bob once found to his chagrin — it’s incredibly painful to step on a Rake.

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Ovi Mahajan is a nice kid living in Mumbai, India. And at first glance you might mistake him for any other awkward-but-normal teen boy from a fairly well-to-do family. In fact, that is exactly what he wants to be: normal and average.

But the truth is, he’s not your average kid. At all.

Ovi’s dad just happens to be the biggest and deadliest drug lord in India. The man may be currently serving his time in prison, but the elder Mahajan’s presence is everywhere. It weighs on Ovi like an albatross. Which explains why Ovi is so eager to sneak away from the men who watch him: so he can indulge in average teen rebellion.

Of course, having a dad who’s a well-known drug lord also means that those otherwise small, rebellious choices can have big consequences. And that’s how Ovi gets kidnapped by the biggest and deadliest drug lord … in Bangladesh, one Amir Asif.

Living on the other side of the world, Tyler Rake is not really a nice guy at all. At first glance, his rippling muscles and scarred body might make you think he’s sorta tough. But he’s actually more than that. He’s an emotionally tormented mercenary who knows everything there is to know about killing and destroying mercilessly, then drinking and drugging his pain away later.

During one such brain-numbing stretch, Tyler gets a call. And he takes on a mission to liberate and extract a young Indian teen named Ovi Mahajan. The extraction point is guarded by scores of men. The boy’s captor is powerful enough to have the local police and military at his disposal. And the clogged streets of Bangladesh will be akin to navigating a rat-filled maze.

Looks like a lot of people are gonna die.

Positive Elements

As Tyler sets about his bloody mission of extraction, things quickly turn in bad directions. During a long series of car chases, shoot outs and sewer crawls, however, Tyler and Ovi get to know each other. And Tyler becomes truly invested in saving the young boy, no matter what the cost. In fact, Tyler and Ovi both put their lives on the line to help, or save, one another.

For her part, Tyler’s handler, Nik, also goes to great lengths to protect Tyler. Even when she finds out that they have been tricked into a rescue with no payment, Nik sends in extra forces to extract Ovi and the badly wounded Tyler.

Spiritual Elements

Sexual content.

Scantily clad women dance on elevated stages in a strip club.

Violent Content

It would be very difficult to spell out all the deadliness and destruction of this film. But I’ll give you a summary of the “high points” anyway.

It starts with Tyler splattering mens’ brains on the pavement with a silenced automatic weapon while he staggers and drags himself forward—blood seeping from seemingly every part of his body. Then we go back to the beginning of the tale to see how, fight by fight, fall by fall, throat stab by throat stab and explosion by explosion, the burly mercenary got to that gore-covered point.

The choreographed killing and butchering of seemingly hundreds of assailants flows on and on with a thump-thump-bang-squish repetitive rhythm that plays out in a painful-looking ballet. Faces are stabbed and pounded; eyes are impaled; heads, chests, legs and crotches are shot at close range; and men are thrown to the floor or sent hurtling off buildings to have their heads splat or necks crack with each visceral impact.

A teen lops off his own finger. Another teen is shot point blank in the forehead. And a man moves to kill a boy in his sleep. The camera watches closely as a wounded man slowly bleeds out and dies. Sniper shots bloodily obliterate the skulls of numerous victims. Vehicles flip, crash and explode. Entire blocks erupt in fire and smoke. Helicopters and armored vehicles are hit with high-caliber weapons fire, grenades, and RPG missiles. Etc.

Tyler and others repeatedly attempt to staunch the bloodflow from their various wounds and loped off fingers. One man snaps his badly broken nose back in place, releasing a gush of blood. We hear of a young boy dying from lymphoma.

Crude or Profane Language

Some 15 f-words and more than a half-dozen s-words are joined by several uses of “h—” and “b–ch.” Christ is misused three times , and God’s name is combined with “d–n” once.

Drug and Alcohol Content

In addition to tossing back beer and hard liquor (shared on numerous occasions with other acquaintances), Tyler regularly swallows painkillers from a prescription bottle. (In one scene, he shares the pills with another man as they wash the drugs back with a glass of whiskey.) We also see a large bottle of oxycodone pills on Tyler’s kitchen table.

A group of teens and a large group of adult patrons imbibe mixed drinks at two different clubs. A teen smokes a joint.

Other Negative Elements

Tyler and Ovi wade through a nasty sewer during an escape, feces and swimming rats floating on the water’s surface. A man is shot while standing at a urinal.

Late in this film, drug lord and ruthless killer Amir Asif turns to a thuggish youth and says, “No matter how big a bada– you think you are, there’s always a bada– who’s bigger than you.” To Joe Russo (director of Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame ) who penned this screenplay, that might have felt like just another cool, tough-sounding line to stick into his thinly dialogued movie. But in fact, it pretty much sums up this entire Netflix feature.

Extraction is the latest entry in the current craze for making purely action action films. (Think: any of the John Wick movies or their excruciating female versions, such as Atomic Blonde .) It equates to a video game-like pic that simply keeps driving and driving, and killing and killing, until the credits roll some 100 minutes later.

Oh, sure, there is a bit of story here. Chris Hemsworth trades his Asgardian hammer and Thor threads for the Kevlar vest and automatic weapons of a merc. And as he kills and destroys everything , as well as getting stabbed, shot and beaten, we realize that his self-flagellating choices are all due to the mental anguish of a past sad tragedy. Again, all pretty much part and parcel of the typical action-for-action’s-sake formula.

That’s not to suggest that the action here isn’t well choreographed and realistically graphic. It certainly is all that. Bullets and knives rip through every part of the human body, bones are brutally snapped, blood spurts and explosions decimate in a rhythmic two-step of deadly destruction.

But if you’re looking for anything more than scores of brutal kills, caustically foul language and knotted muscle bada–ery , well, you’d best invest your 100 minutes elsewhere

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

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Extraction review – less than a marvel

High-impact action sequences are let down by a dud script in Sam Hargrave’s kidnap thriller starring Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth ( Thor ) stars in this tightly choreographed action thriller about Tyler Rake, a ruthlessly efficient but emotionally constipated hired gun. Hemsworth is tasked with recovering the teenage son of Indian drug lord Ovi Mahajan Sr (Pankaj Tripathi). Ovi Jr (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) is being held hostage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by a rival gang; in the film’s most bravura set piece, Tyler “extracts” him in real time.

First-time director Sam Hargrave draws on his formidable career as a stunt coordinator for several of the Marvel movies, shooting athletic combat sequences with a handheld camera at close range. The effect is immersive and high-impact. A shame, then, about the po-faced script, written by Joe Russo (co-director of Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War ) and adapted from his comic, Ciudad . The optics of a white mercenary raining down bullets on anonymous brown bodies aside, the film’s solemn tone does the usually charismatic Hemsworth no favours.

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Stories about violent men who get a shot at redemption when they inadvertenly become "dads" are definitely having a moment (just look at the popularity of The Mandalorian and The Witcher ), but of the recent additions to this myth-making tradition, Extraction is easily the most problematic. It's not that the film is badly made; far from it, stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave constructs some terrific action sequences in his directing debut. Yet, it's also tone-deaf in the way it centers its thinly-sketched narrative around a white protagonist who kills a whole lot of brown-skinned people, all in the name of saving one he's taken a liking to. Despite the spectacular stunt work, Extraction is a garden-variety action-thriller dragged down by its regressive white savior elements.

Chris Hemsworth stars in Extraction as Tyler Rake, a black market mercenary who spends his days trying to numb his pain (physical and spiritual) with booze and pills when he's hired to rescue Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the son of an imprisoned crime lord (Pankaj Tripathi), after he's kidnapped by his father's main rival (Priyanshu Painyuli). However, what could've been a simple operation turns out to be a far deadlier mission, and before long Tyler and Ovi are on their own in the densely populated city of Dhaka. With a small army of hired hands and corrupt police officers hot on their tail, it's up to Tyler to protect the boy and deliver him to the new extraction point alive.

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Backing up a little, it should be pointed out Extraction is certainly better at humanizing its non-white supporting characters than, say, fellow recent Netflix Original Six Underground (though, that's not exactly setting the bar high). The script by Joe Russo, who's adapting the Ciudad comic book he co-created here, even starts off by showing Ovi in his regular life with his schoolmates before he's taken hostage. These are the same scenes in which viewers are introduced to Saju (Randeep Hooda), a subordinate who works for Ovi's father and is tasked with making sure he's rescued, lest his boss have his own family killed. Saju, in many ways, is the most compelling (and morally complicated) antihero in the film and it arguably would've made more sense to make him the lead, rather than reducing his involvement in the storyline to a subplot.

But, of course, Hooda isn't the superstar Hemsworth is and so, following these early scenes, Extraction shifts its attention to Tyler, who spends his days drinking, casually diving off high cliffs, and risking drowning himself in the water below (a not so subtle metaphor which the movie revisits later on). Tyler is a stoic collection of cliches, right down to him having a tragic backstory involving - you guessed it - a child who died, and while the film does pause to touch on his trauma from this incident, it skimps on examining the guilt he feels from having led a life of violence since then. Because of this, his arc from unfeeling hired gun to becoming Ovi's guardian is both predictable and rings hollow, as does their relationship (in spite of Jaiswal and Hemsworth's best efforts). At a certain point, Ovi only really serves to function as a plot device, much like Tyler's handler Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) and his fellow mercenary Gaspar (David Harbour, who's good as ever in a curiously minor role).

Behind the camera, Hargrave (who also plays a small supporting role as a sniper on Tyler's team) proves his mettle as an action filmmaker by delivering a series of dynamically staged, yet visually cohesive, bone-crunching fights and scenes of Tyler handing out headshots like he's John Wick. The much-promoted centerpiece is a 12-minute sequence shot which, for the most part, successfully weaves together multiple set pieces to create the impression of a fluid single take. Problem is, Extraction 's gritty tone and approach clashes with the way its white protagonist racks up a body count like he's playing an ultra-violent video game. It's one thing when John Wick mows down enemies in a heightened reality where every other person is a killer-for-hire; it's another thing when this movie wants audiences to think of its Bangladeshi antagonists as real people and examine the cycle of violence they're trapped in (as it does with one particular story thread), yet also cheer Tyler on as he slaughters them one by one.

Following their impressive run with Marvel Studios, the Russo Brothers seem interested in making more grounded action-thrillers highlighting everyday people (heroes and antiheroes alike) for the moment, and Extraction (which they also produced) allows them to continue doing so. Much like last year's Russos-produced 21 Bridges , though, the results are a run of the miller genre movie propped up as being something more by well-directed action and an MCU veteran who outshines the material. And while Extraction is the more polished of the pair, it's also the more dodgy because, at the end of the day, it's a story about a white guy who chooses to rescue a person of color in order to truly save himself. So that's something to keep in mind while you're deciding what to stream this weekend.

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Extraction is now streaming on Netflix. It is 116 minutes long and is rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language and brief drug use.

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‘Extraction’ Ending Explained: Director Sam Hargrave on What Really Happened

And how test screenings actually changed the final scene...

Spoilers for the Netflix movie Extraction follow below.

If you sat down to watch the new Netflix action movie Extraction , you may not have been prepared for an ending as dark and ambiguous as the one you get. But luckily we got some clarity from the film’s director, Sam Hargrave , on what it all means.

The story of Extraction follows a mercenary named Tyler Rake, played by Chris Hemsworth . All throughout the film, it’s clear that Tyler has a death wish. He’s haunted by the death of his son, and even when we first meet him he jumps off a high cliff like it’s nothing. He genuinely does not care if he lives or dies, which is partly what makes him so deadly.

But his relationship with Ovi ( Rudraksh Jaiswal ), the kid he’s in charge of extracting from Dhaka, changes him. He empathizes with the kid, and no doubt sees some of his son in the young innocent boy. This is no longer a job, it’s a mission—he must get Ovi out safely, and to do so means not dying. At least until his mission is complete.

And that’s basically what happens. The film ends with a climactic firefight on a bridge, and as soon as Ovi gets to the other side and Tyler breathes a sigh of relief, Tyler is mortally wounded by Farhad ( Suraj Rikame ), the young man who wanted to prove himself to drug lord Amir ( Priyanshu Painyuli ). Tyler seemingly dies right in front of Ovi and Tyler’s mercenary partner Nik ( Golshifteh Farahani ).

But the film’s final moments offer a sense of hope. We watch as Ovi jumps into a swimming pool and sinks to the bottom, mirroring Rake’s first scene. But when Ovi comes up out of the water, a figure stands in the background that looks a lot like Tyler Rake, and then the screen cuts to black.

So is Chris Hemsworth’s character alive? Has he returned to train Ovi? Is Ovi hallucinating, insinuating that Tyler’s spirit will be with him always? Or is this just some stranger who looks a lot like Tyler Rake?

Collider’s own Steve Weintraub put these questions to Extraction director Sam Hargrave during an exclusive interview recently, and the filmmaker said that every opinion on what happens at the end of the movie is valid:

“What would hopefully happen is people will be discussing that afterwards, and you get to say which one you feel is right for you.”

But in case that’s not satisfying for you, Hargrave offered a peek behind the curtain at how they landed on this Extraction ending. As it turns out, the original ending to the film (which was written by Joe Russo ) very explicitly showed that Tyler Rake died. He sacrificed his life to save Ovi. His arc was complete. But test audiences were split down the middle as to how they felt about that bummer conclusion:

“We had a version of the movie, and we tested it a lot, and it was not surprising that a lot of people wanted the character to live, and some people wanted him to die. People were torn; it was almost down the middle. We want to appeal to as many people as possible without compromising the integrity of the story. And so, we think a pretty good compromise is to make an ambiguous ending. If people on one hand feel like the story is complete and is a story of redemption through sacrifice, then for them, it’ll be where the kid is imagining [Rake standing there], and then now you go, ‘Yes, I’m satisfied.’ If you feel like you love Tyler Rake, and you love Chris Hemsworth, and you want a sequel, and you’re like ‘There’s no way, you can’t kill him!’ then that’s Tyler Rake standing there looking at you. So we kind of purposefully did not pull focus to the character standing there.”

As for Hargrae’s preferred ending? Well it’s probably the one in which Rake dies, because that was his original idea:

“In truth, that was a thing of testing. Because we shot multiple endings. We shot a lot of different ways to pull this off. Because in the original script—and this was my idea—Rake does not live. His story was complete because he found something to keep him alive, and his journey was complete when he came to redemption through sacrifice. He made the choice he was okay with. He had come to terms with his past and the choice he made in the present saved this kid, and if that meant him dying, so be it. And that was his journey in my mind.”

But it wasn’t just the test audiences that convinced Hargrave and Co. to go with an ambiguous ending. It was also the suggestion of the Netflix executive in charge of original films, Scott Stuber :

“A very astute thing was suggested by the head of Netflix original films, Scott Stuber. His point was well taken, fantastic, and I’ll remember this forever: you have to remember the difference between an intellectually satisfying ending and an emotionally satisfying ending. And so we struggled with that concept of ‘is it more emotionally satisfying that Rake lives or that Rake dies?’ And truthfully, the vote was it’s more emotionally satisfying that he lives. Because the kid gave him something to live for, and now he’s living for that.”

Ultimately, Hargrave says the Extraction ending is a compromise that he thinks makes both camps happy:

“So basically, what you see in the movie is a compromise. Because a lot of us who are in the original camp didn’t want him to survive, a lot in the new camp wanted him to live. We tested it, and it was literally down the middle for people who wanted him to live versus die. So we’re like, hey, we’ll give you the best of both worlds, we’re gonna have this ambiguous ending where you can choose your own adventure.”

So what happens at the end of Extraction ? Well according to the film’s director, that’s up to you.

For more on the film check out our extended interview with co-writer and producer Joe Russo and our ranking of every non-Thor Chris Hemsworth performance .

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Netflix: with a plot that feels like it came out of a can, all that's left is non-stop scenes of bloody, gory violence..

Netflix: Gun-for-hire Tyler Rake is working the deadliest mission of his life - rescuing the son of a dangerous international drug lord from a rival criminal. And the clock is running out...

Release date April 24, 2020

Run Time: 120 minutes

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Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is a skilled mercenary who has spent his adult life in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, working for (or against) some of the most dangerous people. His reputation for violence has brought him to the attention of Saju (Randeep Hooda), the lieutenant for India’s biggest drug lord whose son, Ovi (Rudraksh Jaiswal) has been kidnapped by one of his rivals, Amir Ashif (Priyanshi Painyuli). But when Tyler finds the kid, he also realizes that this op was bigger than he expected. Now he’s on the run from police, thugs, and his own employer.

This isn’t exactly a breakthrough in the genre. Someone at Netflix went into a big warehouse, pulled a script out of a box labeled “Generic Action Movie No. 2”, and cast the biggest star they could in the lead to make sure it drew viewers. So don’t go into this expecting some dramatic, heartfelt, well-considered action. Expect to see Chris Hemsworth shooting his way through Bangladesh and making an absolute mess of the place.

Extraction falls into the category of “messy” action - you know, the kind where people bleed when you shoot them (as opposed to PG-13 action, where they just fall over). In this film, they just so happen to bleed a lot . It’s sort of like watching a bunch of Capri-Sun juice packets with firecrackers in them. I can deal with that, but this film has a disconcerting amount of violence directed against children. The rival drug lord seems to have a small army of children, one of whom gets beaten by our ever-benevolent hero - but it’s fine, because he didn’t shoot them or anything, I guess. That plus the profanity and occasional drug use makes this totally unsuitable for family viewing.

While the action is largely well done, I have a few issues with Extraction that make it hard to recommend to anyone. I dislike the trope of the brooding white guy with some vague personal tragedy in his past using said vague trauma as an excuse for slaughtering dozens of people for money. Call me picky, but I find a man who literally kills for the highest bidder hard to root for as the ethical hero of the piece. Sure, he hasn’t shot a kid lately (which does make him stand out in this movie), but he’s still an international gun for hire with very few qualms about how much murder it takes for him to get paid. Hardly an endearing quality.

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Why is Extraction rated R? Extraction is rated R by the MPAA for strong bloody violence throughout, language and brief drug use.

Violence: Dozens of people are bloodily shot to death, including some teenagers. A child is thrown off a roof. People are severely beaten. An individual is choked to death. A person is stabbed through the face with a rake. People are hit by cars. People are blown up. A person sets his own broken nose. An individual is shown after cutting off their own finger. Sexual Content: None. Profanity: There are 19 uses of extreme profanity, 14 uses of scatological curses, and dozens of other profanities and terms of deity. Alcohol / Drug Use: People are shown drinking in a social context. An individual is implied to be abusing oxycontin. Teenagers are shown smoking marijuana.

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Extraction 1 and 2 just made Netflix movie history – but it might not last for long

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Tyler Rake looks worried as he hangs onto the side of a train in Extraction 2

Chris Hemsworth's Extraction film series has made Netflix movie history – but it's a record that might not stand the test of time.

Revealed in the latest update of its Top 10 charts , Netflix confirmed that the action movie franchise is the first of its kind to have two entries appear in its most popular English-language movies list.

The first Extraction movie, which arrived in April 2020, has held ninth spot on that particular chart since, well, Netflix began releasing its in-house viewing figures data to the public. Extraction has been viewed 135.7 million times since it launched more than three years ago.

Now, Extraction 2 , which debuted on the world's best streaming service on June 16, has helped to cement the Hemsworth-fronted film series' place in the Netflix record books. Extraction 2 squeezed its way into 10th place on the streamer's most-watched English language films list – at the time of writing, it's been viewed 129.3 million times – on August 23. That means the Extraction movie franchise is the first-ever movie series to feature two flicks simultaneously on the same Netflix chart.

Extraction 2 has broken onto the Most Popular English Films list at #10 with 129.3 million views since launch. The first film sits at #9 on the list, making Extraction the first film franchise to simultaneously chart two films on the Most Popular list! pic.twitter.com/TGHdiCGoVb August 22, 2023

Realistically, we shouldn't have expected anything less from Extraction 1 and 2 . With an extremely popular actor in Hemsworth fronting the films, as well as their suspense-filled, high-octane action, including incredibly ambitious one-shot sequences , the Extraction series are some of the better new Netflix movies we've seen from the streaming giant's in-house film department.

As our Extraction 2 review suggests, neither the franchise's latest entry nor its predecessor are perfect, but as enjoyable, easy-to-watch thrill rides, they're certainly worth sitting through. In fact, we'd go as far as to say they're some of the best Netflix movies (first- and third-party) around right now. That's if you're not in the market for a film of a more cerebral nature, anyway.

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Tyler Rake fights his way through a Georgia-based prison at night time in Extraction 2

The Extraction movie series' record-breaking achievement is no mean feat. If it was a relatively easy task then other Netflix film franchises – there aren't many, admittedly – would have have beaten it to the punch.

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Its never-before-seen success, though, might not last. With Extraction 1 and 2 sitting at ninth and 10th spot on Netflix's most-streamed English language films list, their positions are precarious at best. Essentially, it'll only take one new Netflix flick to knock Extraction 2 off the chart – and there are plenty of other Netflix-developed film franchises preparing to do so. Of that contingent, the Extraction series has three big-name players to worry about: Red Notice , The Gray Man , and Knives Out .

Right now, Red Notice is far and away the most-watched English language Netflix Original film of all-time. Its 230.9 million viewership haul is light years ahead of nearest rival Don't Look Up (171.4 million). And, with two Red Notice sequels on the way, you can safely bet on Red Notice 2 usurping Extraction 2 once it sees the light of day.

Even if Red Notice 2 isn't massively successful, The Gray Man 's sequel and/or its spin-off film might threaten Extraction 2 's place on the list. That's before we even mention Knives Out 3 , which may prove even more popular than 2022's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (basically, Knives Out 2 ) when the next Daniel Craig-led murder mystery comedy flick arrives.

So yes, Extraction 1 and 2 may have made history for Netflix, but I'd be surprised if they can hold off the advances of some of the streamer's other heavy hitting film franchises. For now, however, the series can bask in the glow of setting a new Netflix record.

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Overseen and conceived by the Russo Brothers of Marvel fame, the "Extraction" films are an example of a dwindling breed: the big-budget, super-violent adventure. Whether the main character is named John Rambo, Jason Bourne or John Wick, he's a variant on a type: the prolific killer who'd prefer not to kill anymore but keeps getting pushed back into it. He has a tragic past and is grieving over it. And he's played by a guy who's so ferocious in violent scenes that you'd believe that he could take 100 blows to the head, face, and torso, plus a gunshot, a knife wound, and a grenade concussion, and keep going.

Critic Robert Brian Taylor calls these movies part of " The Sad Action Hero canon ." Chris Hemsworth is its most notable new member. He plays Tyler Rake—a young boy's idea for an action hero name, but Hemsworth makes him seem almost like a real person. He's a tremendous physical actor, possibly as good as Schwarzenegger and Stallone in their primes, but with more range. He's played a scheming male bimbo, a legendary computer hacker, a depressed mercenary, a 19th-century whaler, a cult leader, and the mighty Thor, all convincingly. He's got a bit of the young Sean Connery's self-aware swagger as well. But there's also a buried sadness to him, and that's what the "Extraction" films dig out.

Tyler used to be a special forces soldier with the Australian Army. He chose to go to Afghanistan for yet another tour of duty while his son was battling an incurable disease and was not present when the boy died. Then his marriage fell apart and he became a mercenary. Guilt over husbandly and parental failure is as much of a driving force in the "Extraction" franchise as amnesia in the "Bourne" films and mourning in the " John Wick " series. Tyler's adventures are redemption stories, set in action movie purgatories filled with shadow versions of the hero: defective fathers who mistreat, neglect, or warp their children and see them as extensions of their ego or brand. Tyler's main enemies are dark parents who could be stand-ins for Tyler's own masochistic feelings about how badly he failed his family.

The first "Extraction" showed Tyler rescuing the kidnapped son of an Indian drug lord who was being held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The kid was a pawn in a pissing match between rich bullies with private armies. In accepting the mission Tyler offered himself up as a karmic punching bag, absorbing punishment for his past mistakes in an urban hellhole-purgatory (in the original graphic novel, the setting was Paraguay) while serving as a quasi-father figure to the boy he was protecting. In this one, an unnamed man ( Idris Elba , so charming that one hopes he'll be in the third one) shows up at the cabin in the woods where Tyler is recovering from the previous mission and delivers a message from his ex-wife, who, as it turns out is Georgian. Her sister and her children are being held in a Georgian prison by her drug dealer husband Davit ( Tornike Bziava ), who had the clout to get them all ensconced with him. Rake is hired to bust the family out of prison and take them away from Davit and his brother Zurab (Tornike Gogrichiani), who's even more of a psycho. Complications ensue. All you need to know is that the film is three long action sequences with a bit of character development sprinkled in.

The first is an uninterrupted 21-minute action sequence following Tyler and the family through a wild prison break and onto a train that's chased across the tundra by helicopters filled with armed thugs in body armor. Any thugs who aren't killed in midair drop onto the train and fight Tyler and his two allies, Nik ( Golshifteh Farahani ) and Yaz ( Adam Bessa ), with guns, fists, knives, and whatever objects are lying around. Director Sam Hargrave , a former stunt coordinator who made his directorial debut on the first "Extraction," takes the digitally-stitched-together, super-long "oner" that was introduced to viewers in mid-aughts films like Steven Spielberg's " War of the Worlds " and Alfonso Cuarón's " Children of Men " and pushes it to ostentatious but admittedly dazzling extremes.

Like the long take in the original "Extraction," it has a video game feeling. Cinematographer Greg Baldi's camera often adopts a first-person or over-the-shoulder vantage point, as in a "shooter" game. The point-of-view moves in and out of moving train cars, varies its distance to get tight closeups of people's anguished faces or panoramas full of moving vehicles and people, and generally does things that are against the laws of physics as well as the rules of production insurance companies. Despite the Eastern European blue-gray filters and bloodletting and bone-crunching, you're aware that that the sequence is no more "real" than the Avengers battling Thanos. Some composited landscapes and helicopters don't pass the believability test, and a few big camera moves that take us from outside to inside and vice-versa are too clever for their own good. But it's all so intricate and expertly timed that you still appreciate it, as one might a performance of a piano concerto so difficult that just hitting the notes is beyond most players' capabilities.

The other two major sections of the film are modeled, respectively, on the first " Die Hard " and one of John Woo's classic doppelgängers-battle-each-other films (probably "The Killer," which like this film, climaxes in a candlelit church with doves fluttering about). They're imaginatively conceived and executed with no-fuss virtuosity, though the cutting is sometimes too frenetic and the camerawork too wobbly (a lot of the time, Hargrave is doing a modified version of that Russo Bros' "shaky equals excitement" style). But they face the unusual problem of being good enough to anchor nearly any other action epic yet feeling like a letdown because they follow that jailbreak-to-railway sequence.

There's also a subplot about one of the ex-sister-in-law's kids, Sandro (Andro Japaridze), who has been trained from birth to be a gangster just like his dad and uncle, supposedly being torn between recognizing his family's multigenerational legacy of violence and brainwashing and choosing to go in a different direction, or taking up arms against the hero to get payback for Tyler killing one of his loved ones during the jailbreak. Anybody who's seen a Sad Action Hero movie knows how this part of the story will turn out—they're not going to write out Chris Hemsworth—so you play the waiting game.

Hemsworth and his castmates are thoughtful, capable actors. They take this assignment seriously. They dig into the psychological trauma and guilt aspects of Joe Russo's script, imbue them with a "graphic novel" variant of seriousness (i.e., pulp fiction played solemnly), and elevate "Extraction 2" beyond glorified video game status. But there's not enough dramatic substance, either in the writing or the marketplace-capped amount of screen time, to satisfyingly flesh out Tyler and his immediate circle. The film is single-mindedly focused on giving viewers more and more and more bang-bang. It wants to be a John le Carré novel and a cinematic equivalent of a shooter game at the same time. The first "Extraction" nearly pulled it off in scenes where Tyler bonded with an old merc buddy played by David Harbour , who was even more cynical than Tyler and turned out to be untrustworthy. It gets close again here in a scene where Tyler faces his deepest regrets in conversation rather than as metaphors while in combat. But for the most part, the series hedges its bets to appeal to what it apparently considers its main audience: viewers who deem anything related to characterization and atmosphere to be "filler."

Still, you might appreciate the series' attempts to anchor military-adjacent shoot-'em-up adventures in something like reality, and give all of its major characters situations to play that are a step above the standard action film tropes. Where most contemporary Hollywood movies are aimed at the child in every grownup, the "Extraction" films speak to the potential grownup in every kid. Although it's rated "R," its ideal audience might be 12. The scenes between parents and their disappointed offspring capture that feeling you have when you're young and suddenly realize that the adults you once revered are human beings who can fail you and are often faking it.

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Extraction 2 (2023)

Rated R for strong/bloody violence throughout and language.

123 minutes

Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake

Rudhraksh Jaiswal as Ovi Mahajan

Golshifteh Farahani as Nik Khan

Adam Bessa as Yaz

Justin Howell as Gio

Olga Kurylenko as Mia

Tinatin Dalakishvili as Ketevan

Tornike Bziava as David

Patrick Newall as Seb

Sam Hargrave

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William Hoy
Alex Rodríguez
Alex Belcher
Henry Jackman

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Extraction 2 Review: An Epic, Action-Packed Sequel

F ormer movie stunt performers turned filmmakers are currently killing it in the action movie genre. Well, of course they are. Who knows how to shoot, direct, and choreograph action better than the men and women who put their bodies and lives on the line, to give audiences the best action movie experiences possible? Chad Stahelski has delivered one of the best, if not the best action movie franchise of all time with John Wick, and Jesse V. Johnson has been delivering jaw-dropping martial arts epics for years with martial arts legend Scott Adkins typically being in the lead role.

Sam Hargrave, who previously worked as Chris Evans' stunt double through all of his MCU appearances, has more than proven he is one of the best stunt performers turned directors around, with his Netflix Original action movie blockbuster, Extraction . Hargrave's directorial debut was an action movie tour de force. It's full of jaw-dropping action, a badass lead, and beautiful cinematography. The movie made waves on Netflix and through pop culture, for its breathtaking 10-minute long "oner" that saw the camera shift through cars, bullets, and off buildings as Chris Hemsworth's Tyler Rake stacks up a mighty kill count.

Now, Extraction 2 picks right up from where the previous movie left off. Tyler Rake is recovering from his death-defying wounds, but he soon gets tasked on a mission to save a ruthless gangster's imprisoned family, who are later revealed to have a shocking connection to the mercenary. Hargrave succeeds in delivering everything we adored about the first movie, and so much more. The action is bigger, bolder, and somehow better than its predecessor, the characters are far more engaging, and Extraction 2 actually has a plot. Well, at least some semblance of one.

With Extraction 2, Sam Hargrave has now fully cemented himself as one of the best action movie directors of our time.

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Breathtaking Action

2023 has knocked it out of the park with its action movies thus far, and Extraction 2 is without a doubt in the running for the best the year had to offer. This is, of course, mostly attributed to Hargrave's flawless eye for action. The movie delivers a much larger spectacle than the first and a far bigger kill count. Extraction 2 is the sequel fans of the universe have been dying to see.

Extraction 2 features another "oner" which ups the ante and lasts for an astonishing 20 minutes, perhaps even longer. The scene begins in a prison where Tyler brutally takes on armies of prisoners and guards with his guns, knives, a shield and yes, a dumbbell. Continuing the "oner," Hargrave immediately takes us on an exhilarating car chase filled with brilliant motor stunts, all before putting our characters on a train for an extra five minutes of brutal action, where Tyler single-handedly takes on two helicopters. Amazing stuff.

This sequence is clearly the main course of the movie, and will more than fill audiences up on the creative, brutal, well shot and well paced action that we loved so much about the first. Thankfully, the action doesn't stop there, as Hargrave keeps on demonstrating his mastery at directing and shooting action. Sure, the other moments of action may not be as mesmerizing as the 20 minute "oner" however each scene is just as brutal, and expertly shot.

Once Extraction 2 opens up the cages and releases its first action scene, it just doesn't let up. Although audiences may be exhausted, and some may criticize the movie for not focusing on plot, we are all here for the action. The movie's non-stop and unrelenting action, allows the two-hour run time to fly by.

Chris Hemsworth Is Tyler Rake

There are countless badass action movie heroes, from Rambo, John Wick, Sarah Connors, Ellen Ripley and John McClane, just to name a few. We can now add Extraction's Tyler Rake to that roster of seemingly unkillable protagonists. Rake is an incredibly deadly and likable character, who we loved in the first Extraction movie. However, with more depth, more moments to show off his impressive combat skills, and a much larger kill count, Tyler Rake should now be considered among the best.

Chris Hemsworth is fantastic as said hero. His large physique and super-fast reflexes make way for some incredibly fast-paced and brutal physicality, which Extraction 2 doesn't shy away from. During one scene, Tyler Rake rips one of his enemies hands in two, with his bare hands, a feat only achievable by a few action stars. Likewise, Chris Hemsworth dives into the character's tragic backstory delivering a great degree of emotion and depth, making Tyler Rake more than just an unkillable badass.

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Brilliant Supporting Cast

As great as Chris Hemsworth was, it's the supporting cast who really stole the show. Golshifteh Farahani was one of the movie's standouts, excelling in the action and demonstrating her very impressive physicality. Tyler Rake should watch his back as Nik Kahn, Golshifteh Farahani's character, may soon become the series' best character.

Adding to Extraction 2's roster of phenomenal cast members are the likes of Idris Elba , Daniel Bernhardt, and Olga Kurylenko, who all make delightful appearances, expanding on the world and characters of the Extraction universe. Idris Elba was without a doubt the biggest and best surprise, who, as the movie's final minutes suggest, will play an integral part in the franchise's future. Martial arts legend Daniel Bernhardt, however, was criminally underutilized like most of his roles in Hollywood. Bernhardt never had an opportunity to show off his phenomenal martial arts skill set.

The Franchise Netflix Has Been Waiting For

For years, Netflix has wanted to create their own franchise as successful as franchises like the MCU and Harry Potter . Netflix had their fingers crossed with the likes of Bright, Death Note and Project Power , however the streaming service failed to turn these movies into franchises. Thankfully, Netflix's wish is finally granted, as the action packed Extraction movies is the franchise that the colossal streaming service has been waiting for.

As Extraction 2's ending suggests, we definitely have a sequel or two on the way , and we can't wait. Will this franchise be as big as John Wick ? We highly doubt it, but as long as Hargrave keeps delivering stellar action sequences with engaging characters, we will happily keep watching as many Extraction movies Netflix pumps out.

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