Though he’s reluctant to accept this forced retirement, he adapts to it quickly, spending the waning hours watching “Dancing With the Stars” with his dog and two chickens and poring over the remains of his past life - mementos of his deceased son tidily packaged in the saddest shoebox ever to grace a cinema screen.Ī ray of hope appears for Rake when an International Man of Mystery (Idris Elba, whose character name is deliberately withheld in the film, but the end credits list as Alcott) visits, brandishing a rapier wit and a new extraction assignment for Rake and his crew. After waking, he rehabilitates, in a remote cabin set up by his glamorous handler/ business partner Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) and her ostentatious brother Yaz (Adam Bessa) in the picturesque, snow-covered Austrian wilderness. Our ongoing adventures with Tyler Rake (Hemsworth) pick up right after his previous mission, which left him in a coma with agonizing, life-threatening injuries.
#Adrenaline pumping series#
As its compelling lead character cuts through his personal strife whilst helping another family find the sense of freedom he too seeks, a new trail is blazed that recenters the series on bone-crunching brutality and bravado. (The graphic novel “Ciudad,” upon which the first film was based, was written by Ande Parks from a story by Parks and the Russo brothers.) The filmmakers’ renewed vigor is our reward as, similar to its unfussy title, this sequel deals in clean-lined action and suspense, removing much of the excessive weight that bogged down the original. Three years later and armed with a far better, bloody and bruising quest for the laconic hero, Hargrave, star Chris Hemsworth and screenwriter Joe Russo return to the burgeoning franchise with “ Extraction 2”. All the folks at home made it a worldwide sensation for Netflix, and it continues to tear up the charts as their seventh most popular film ever (according to their internal, recently-released metrics). With theaters shuttered, our immediate movie-going futures looking bleak and escapist entertainment becoming a therapeutic necessity, along came the rise of The Streaming Service Blockbuster - most notably “Extraction.” Stuntman-turned-director Sam Hargrave’s muscular albeit convoluted actioner, centered on a mercenary sent to rescue the kidnapped son of a crime lord, was handed a captive audience.
A funny thing happened during our worldwide lockdown in 2020.
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