Extraction

After Triple Frontier, another likeably uncompromising and gritty action flick from Netflix. The choreography and direction are so predatory and imaginative that there are several scenes that I wanted to rewatch immediately after the credits rolled, and I did. The story is simple, but it also manages to surprise with one unusual, yet logical alliance in particular, and the quiet ending didn't bother me at all, quite the opposite – I felt like I needed a breather. I trusted Chris Hemsworth with everything. (04/25/2020)

Little buggers. Chris Hemsworth beats Indian kids! With top-notch action scenes driven by a straightforward plot from an unknown comic book, Extraction benefits mainly from the mad verve of director Sam Hargrave, who didn’t hesitate to tie himself to the top of a car with a camera to get the desired result. And really the one-shot car chase in the Benz through a hostile Dhaka makes the film worth watching again and again. Kids with Kalashnikovs on every street corner, dirt, blood and slit throats stay the course set by Wick. The future of action movies is not rosy, it’s blood red! (04/24/2020)

In an ideal world, it would be John Wick meets The Raid with a touch of The Punisher... but hey. The first one lacks greater action exaggeration, although there is nothing to complain about with regard to most of the fights and shooting, and the film has a top stunt show-reel. Compared to Gareth Evans and his group of Indonesian suicidal people, Extraction never quite takes your breath away. Hemsworth looks good on the field, but he also carries with him a mediocre back story and a lot of boyish tenderness, which is not very believable, even though I like the guy and enjoy every one of his Instagram posts. There is only one expert on this deadly tenderness deal, and that is Joe Bernthal. I would have given it a higher score had it not been for the blatantly stupid finale and the fact that Bangladeshi Ivan Jonák should have been given more space. Thank you, BTW, for the scene with the beating of children. After a month of quarantine, it’s solidly cathartic. P. S. If someone from Netflix reads this (and they certainly will), shoot the author of the translation in the foot and pay for a proper translator. This man is a fraud and does not need to be rescued, but rather deboned. (04/24/2020)

There’s a strange contemporary trend – making action movies with good actors but without emotion. Which is a pity in this case, because Chris Hemsworth usually knows how to crack jokes, like he showed us in Thor. If he got some space for that, instead of just massacring left and right like Robocop, it could have been the best action blockbuster of the decade. As it is, it’s just an average action flick with one delicious chase in the middle, where the camera was working magic and I was just gaping at the screen with my mouth hanging open. (04/29/2020)

A bit of John Wick, a bit of The Raid, and an awfully ordinary plot. It’s still good stuff, though. Hemsworth handles the action decently and isn't afraid of the more daring stunts, which is commendable. Extraction does wink at Evans from behind the scenes, but it can be considered another in a long line of flashy action flicks. Especially the car chase scene in one take, or running around a house – these are first class stunts. I was tempted to believe that it was an unrecognizably made-up Rose Byrne in a cool Indian look, but it wasn't. (04/25/2020)