Certification. 18
Running Time. 1 hour 56 mins
Director. Sam Hargrave
Cast. Golshifteh Farahani, David Harbour, Chris Hemsworth, Randeep Hooda, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Priyanshu Painyuli.
Rating. 78%
Extraction may not be the most original storyline - we're definitely revisiting well-trodden ground, e.g. Man On Fire, Taken, Sicario 2: Soldado.
In Extraction, Australian mercenary Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is recruited to retrieve the son of a prominent Bangladeshi drug lord who has been kidnapped and held hostage by a rival drug lord. The ever-watchable Hemsworth inhabits the role with ease.
Directed by first-time director, Sam Hargrave, a former stunt co-ordinator on films such as Suicide Squad, Atomic Blonde, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. As such, the fight scenes are impressive and rival the likes of The Raid or John Wick in intensity (and body count). On multiple occasions, Sam Hargrave skillfully employs long tracking shots that serve to elevate the complexity of the fight choreography.
There is a grittiness to Extraction, established by Newton Thomas Sigel's cinematography and Henry Jackman's score, which adds to the ferocity of the proceedings. Deliberately or not, the film would appear to emulate the likes of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty or Denis Villeneuve's Sicario. In truth, Extraction isn't far off these exalted contemporaries.
Some may turn their nose up at films like Extraction, but when they are well-paced and proficiently directed then they can be both entertaining and enjoyable. Extraction certainly was.
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