Genre: Action
Runtime: 116 minutes
Year: 2020
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, David Harbour, Golshifteh Farahani
Description: Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth), a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he’s enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
Review: Director Sam Hargrave’s directorial debut serves up lots of bullets, exploding cars and bloody fights. “Extraction” is an action film in its purest form, delivering brute force without a deeply layered story.
Chris Hemsworth plays mercenary Tyler Rake, who is send out to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to extract the kidnapped son of an imprisoned crime lord. The film has a simple set-up, the action starts right away. Blood, explosions, gunfire, fights, it’s all there in large amounts.
Sam Hargrave directs his first feature film, where he worked as a stunt coordinator before on several Marvel films. Tyler is depicted as a stereotypical bad good guy, tortured by personal tragedy and redeemed by the mission. And Chris Hemsworth does this well.
This action flick has a lot of scenes with hand-held cameras, which make it realistic, but can sometimes be distractive. Hargrave choose for some long one-take shots, which look pretty cool. Sometimes you feel like you’re in a “Call of Duty” game.
“Extraction” is a pretty solid action film. It is action packed, but besides Tyler’s character, all the characters are pretty one-dimensional. It’s an above average film, but it would be pretty forgettable if it weren’t for Hemsworth.
Rating: 3 / 5
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