The film is directed by Sam Hargrave who has made short films in the past but not a feature length film according to his IMDB page. He is a stunt co-ordinator who has worked on the Avengers movies and Deadpool 2 and it shows because it doesn’t hold back on the blood and bone breaking. It definitely seemed to have the same spirit as Taken or Atomic Blonde. There were a couple of moments which were breathe taking. There was an 11 minute sequence which follows the action through cars and its amazing.
To start off with I just thought that this was going to be a Chris Hemsworth film that was fight scenes with no character but as the film progressed somehow I found myself liking his character. They did try and flesh out the character by having him tell a story about losing his son and to be honest I felt that this detracted from the story because then it wasn’t really a mindless action film and something that was trying to show some depth to it. Also there is the part where David Harbour turns up and does the good guy helping our hero out before turning on him thing before being killed off.
The film ends with a rather ambiguous ending because it ends with the boy in the swimming pool coming up to the surface and in the background is a blurred figure and this is supposed to suggest that Tyler did survive. As this is based on a graphic novel, I would expect there to be more and to be honest I wouldn’t mind that. I thought that Chris Hemsworth did more than enough to carry the film and if he did survive then it would make sense that he should carry on. I liked Extraction a lot more than I was expecting. This is a fun action film that thrives on its violence and doesn’t spend so much time on the plot.
