Movie Review Extraction (2020)

Movie Review Extraction (2020)

Predictable plot, cliché screenplay, unimaginative action sequences, stereotypical settings, poor background scores, just another series of Hollywood run-of-the-mill actions, not worth the hype.

Spoilers in front. The film is too bad for anything to spoil it further but still if you want to not know about something that might be predictable such as the order of days of the week, you are warned not to read further.

One Hollywood director thought, "Let's make an action film, let's hire top Hollywood actors like Chris Hemsworth and let's put the arrangements in a third world country". This is the total amount of thought that has been used in making this film. You do a Google search for 10 Hollywood action movie cliches and the first link will take you to the Netflix page of the Extraction movie. Maybe the producers think that in the midst of this Corona lockdown the audience will be so bored that they believe it is entertainment. Believe me, banging equipment on the balcony as told by our PM is more entertaining than watching this film.

So let's see what's in the film:


Protagonist: Chris Hemsworth. He is a mercenary. Ok, so clearly he knows all karate, jujutsu, taekwando, chokeslam, elbows, genealogies, etc. And is the master of all weapons be it rifles, machine guns, grenades, pepper spray or sling shots. He works only for money. You told him about the extraction mission thousands of miles away in the third world country and he agreed to do it. He is not a coward to spend time analyzing threats, looking at surveillance or asking for prize money. Some morons at the extraction site said extraction was impossible but he did not know that Chris Hemsworth was on this mission and if the scouts had seen Hemsworth's blackboard abs, he would believe that nothing was impossible for him.

So, even though the protagonist is a mercenary merciless but he has a soft side. Ok, so how does a cruel guy turn out to have a soft side? Think. Umm, a boyfriend is waiting for him? Not. So what about children? Bingo! And how do we sympathize for children? The boy died of cancer. Ok, so we feel sad for the protagonist now. He lost his child and he was sent on a mission to extract other children. So what will happen? He will find money but will develop feelings for the child because he will remind him of his own child. Never expected change of this event.


Supporting actor: Randeep Hooda. He is a security agent for the Indian mafia. He will fight with Hemsworth so he must also have fighting skills and murder weapons. But, how can he move? Oh, he was in the generic "Special Forces" troops because the writer was too bad to find the name of special forces in India such as the Black Cat Command. His boss's son was kidnapped so he soon went to Bangladesh. He would put his life in extraordinary danger for this child. Why is that? If not, the boss will kill his children. Ok, so another child is in danger. So, at first it seemed like he was a criminal but it turned out he was on Hemsworth's side. Hmm, two protagonists. So what will happen? Umm, the secondary protagonist will die while saving the main protagonist. Bingo! And that is not surprising because right before the last sequence of actions he called his wife that if he did not call within the next 12 hours then he would have to flee to an unknown place with "money".

Hooda despite being a brilliant actor, can't do much in this film.


The child: The child is a generic rich kid from India. So the authors think, "What do rich kids do in India?" Someone answered, "Oh, they must be smoking weed in the back alley of a club, just like in the US". So, that's how the kidnappers found him, when he smoked cannabis in the back alley.

This child was brought to Bangladesh by a kidnapper. The protagonist saves him from a generic kidnapper. Initially the child did not trust the protagonist, but in turn surprised from the events he developed "Stockholm Syndrome" and began to trust him and with the final battle scenes, developed emotions for him.

Villian: Think of yourself as an American, and try to imagine a bad person from a South Asian country. Ok so the bad guy is the king of drugs, he is Pablo Escobar from Bangladesh. But because all the third world countries are banana republics in the eyes of the Americans, the bad guy has all the governments and armies in his pocket.

Action: Shaky Cammera, many explosions, several summer cars and many imaginative scenes that are not imaginative. The protagonist has unlimited ammunition and unlimited health cheat codes. The goal has 100% accuracy but bad people only shoot around him and always seem to fail to shoot the protagonist. The last assassination shot on the protagonist was taken by the person who had promised to kill Hemsworth beforehand, what are the chances. Before that a colonel who acted like a cupbearer for criminals, suddenly acquired the skills of a sniper killer and killed the secondary protagonist. He was about to kill Hemsworth but unlucky, only at the last moment, a female maid of the protagonist killed him, another shocking event.

So, in the end you take the film 'Taken', delete Liam Neeson, add Hemsworth, subtract Europe add Bangladesh, subtract east European antagonists add Bangladesh antagonist, and you get 'Extraction'.

Wasting my time on it while skipping Mahabharata. At least Mahabharat's action scenes are unpredictable, you never know whose arrow will disappear first in the two arrow clash. I will watch the broadcast again tomorrow.