Netflix’s latest hit movie is about a mercenary Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth), who embarks on a mission to save the son of India's most notorious druglord Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) in a way that turns a whole city into a total
warzone. The antagonist of this movie Amir Asif (Priyanshu Painyulli) goes
all the way including closing borders, arming kids and enforcing the military
in trying to regain possession of the Ovi.
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Ovi (left) and Tyler Rake (right) |
POPCORN-O-METER = 7.2
For most parts Extraction
is a great movie especially the first and third(final) portion of the movie. The
action takes off from quite early on with Rake taking on a lot of kidnappers
and uniformed men in what is a very John Wick-style fashion, intertwined with
an about to quarter of an hour action sequence where Rake and Saju (played by
Randeep Hooda: who is Ovi’s caretaker whilst his father is in prison) go at
each other from a foot chase to a car chase, crashes, guns, grenades the scene had it all.
The mid
portion really slows down as it has a lot of filler scenes with callbacks, a
lengthy interrogation like set of questions that Ovi asks Rake so we get his
quite pitiful but cliché back story and a brawl with Rakes old pal Gaspar
(played by Netflix originals Stranger Things TV star David Habour).
Back to
the action again for the final act where a battered Saju and Rake team up to
face the Amir’s forces (if only they had dropped weapons and reasoned honestly
with each other from the onset maybe it wouldn’t have been that painful for
both. Guess they had to beat themselves half dead before they could finally
reason). The final act is quite enjoyable with and ends up at a bridge where a blockade is set between Ovi, Rake, Saju and the extraction point and with a lot of firepower to boot i.e. machine
guns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers and a long range rifle that
eventually leads to the death of Saju and presumably Rake who takes one on the
neck and falls into the river.
Extraction closes out with Rake’s employer Nik
Khan (Golshifteh Farahani) and rescued Ovi seemingly dealing with Rake’s death
by respectively killing Amir while looking as beautifully stunning as ever and
the other jumping into a pool and submerging similar to the way we see Rake do
earlier in the movie and when he’s shot with someone who looks like him
watching poolside.
Finally, the movie was not bad at all in
general, the action sequences and acting were very good. The plotline on the
other hand was not as good and a bit cliché but okay. Maybe if the characters
had better backstories and motives and Rake is actually dead it’d have scored
more. Nonetheless, a good movie to watch during the lockdown.
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