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Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Some of my favorite video games are the ones that are intense and make you strike hard and fast. Call of Duty is a game that I LOVE. Whether it is going in guns blazing like a noob or sniping an enemy from far away. Call of Duty is that game where the intensity is high no matter what the map is. You might be asking, why am I bringing up Call of Duty for this movie. Extraction to me is like a live-action Call of Duty game. Watching it, I felt like the main character was doing a mission on Call of Duty, and everything is exploding with the shit hitting the fan and maybe the sky. Extraction is a total action movie. No more and no less. If you looking for a standard storyline, Extraction has it with a dude who needs to recuse a kid. If you are looking for a main character that is a total badass, Extraction has it because Chris Hemsworth turned in his Thor costume and went beast mode in this film. If you are looking for violence that would make any action junkie blush, then Extraction is the movie for you because it has it all.
What is this extreme action film about?? Extraction begins with Ovi Mahajan (Jaiswal) arriving home after school. He is the son of one of the most powerful men that is ironically an incarcerated Indian drug lord. Ovi sneaks out of his house to visit a club with his friends. While outside and his friends are smoking a joint, police officers roll and shot one of his best friends in the head and kidnap him as they work for rival drug lord Amir Asif. Yep, a simple story because what is more complicated than two rival drug lords stealing each other’s kids for gain. Once again, it is simple and to the point. Well, things become a tad bit complicated as Saju Rav (Hooda), a former Para operator and Ovi’s protector, visits Ovi’s father (Tripathi) in prison. Ovi pretty much says f**k paying the ransom because he doesn’t want his reputation to fall and have him look like a b***h orders Saju to retrieve his son, threatening to kill his family if he doesn’t get his son back.
Tyler Rake (Hemsworth), an elite black-market mercenary and former SASR operator, is recruited by fellow mercenary Nik Khan (Farahani) to rescue Ovi from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rake spends his time trying to numb his pain (physical and spiritual) with booze and pills. Dude had a rough life as his little boy died of disease when he left. Rake and Khan’s team prepare to extract Ovi, with his father’s men set to pay them once Ovi is recovered. Rake rescues Ovi, kills his captors, and takes him to the extraction point, but shit hits the fan when Ovi’s father’s men intentionally fail to transfer the funds. Asif learns of Ovi’s escape and shuts down Dhaka until the boy is back in his hands. Khan tells Rake that a helicopter will extract him outside the city and tells him to abandon Ovi because they won’t get paid. Against his mercenary ways, Rake decides to protect the boy and get Ovi outside of the city. Little does he know that Asif has placed a $10 million bounty on Ovi. With a city looking for them, Rake must battle his way through a city.
Once again, the story is not unique at all. You could probably name many movies where rival drug lords take a family member, and they try to think of a way to get them back. That is nothing new. Even the whole mercenary having extreme issues is nothing new, but somehow all of this works really well. Maybe it is because it is so simple and common that you really don’t expect much out of the story. Sometimes simple and easy is the best way to go. The villain is actually pretty standard and intimidating at the same time. He doesn’t yell at anyone, but you are pretty intense and evil when you throw a kid over the roof of a building.
Besides all of that, this movie is full go action. The minute Rake comes to Dhaka, it is full go, violence, and action. Dude straight up kill the captors in the room with such ease. Then as they make their escape, it is full-on shooting and violence. It honestly felt like an extreme, live-action version of a Call of Duty mission. I love every minute of it. When Rake fought against Saju, it was intense when both of them got hit by a car. Somehow, they got up and kept ongoing.
Another wild scene was the ending, where Rake has to fight his way through a town and a bridge to make sure Ovi gets to the extraction helicopter. If you want everything you can think of in a Call of Duty mission, this scene has it. First, we have men brutally killed with a grenade launcher and some great hand to hand combat. Then we have a tank that just blows the walls off of the building. Let’s not forget about the sniper and enemy helicopter. The whole scene was intense to the max, and it is wonderful.
Extraction is one of those films where the action and violence are beyond overboard. The story is standard and straightforward, where you see in many other action films. Hemsworth is pretty good as the mercenary who doesn’t say a lot. If you are looking for a live-action Call of Duty mission film, this is the movie for you.
