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Extraction

Extraction

2020

Sam Hargrave

Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, David Harbour ...

6.0

13,800

Action. Thriller In an underworld of weapons dealers and traffickers, a young boy becomes the pawn in a war between notorious drug lords. Trapped by kidnappers inside one of the world's most impenetrable cities, his rescue beckons the unparalleled skill of a mercenary named Tyler Rake. But Rake is a broken man with nothing to lose, harboring a death wish that makes an already deadly mission near impossible.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is a little bit hokey and absurd, and the very end has an exasperating cop-out – but it has to be admitted that, in terms of pure action octane, Russo and Hargrave bring the noise (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] isn’t the smartest movie you’ll see during lockdown, but it’s liable to be the most kinetic"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"If you’re looking for a dumb, disposable action movie in which Chris Hemsworth relentlessly shoots generic bad guys (...) 'Extraction' is the movie for you (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"Hargrave might have envisioned 'Extraction' as the next 'John Wick' or 'Atomic Blonde', but his film can’t help but fall in line with all the old conventions.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"A simple-minded action vehicle for Chris Hemsworth (...) Basically, Netflix is serving up an old-fashioned B movie, at a moment when the A-list blockbusters have been postponed."	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] seems fortunately timed for its streaming rollout (...) But much like such similarly styled, high-octane Netflix efforts as 6 Underground and Spenser Confidential, it feels a bit like slumming for its movie star leading man."	NEU
United States	Devika Girish The New York Times	"An action thriller powered by brute force rather than ideas or style (...) [It] gets right down to business, serving up a relentless barrage of blood, bullets and blown-up cars."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"In the end, 'Extraction' must be added to such Netflix entries as 'Triple Frontier', '6 Underground' and 'Bright' as yet another frustrating example of the streaming giant's inability to emulate the blockbuster form (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Andrew Punter Ready Steady Cut	"Well-choreographed action sequences and a brooding muscular performance from Hemsworth elevates this action thriller to a cut above the usual (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times	"An excellent piece of action filmmaking that falls short of the more emotionally resonant goals it wants to set for itself.	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	[It] mostly delivers what its swaggering trailer promises: international scenery; insidious villains; a taciturn, tree-trunk Aussie."	POS
Australia	Wenlei Ma News	"[It] is an action movie that is thrilling when guns are firing, punches are being thrown and cars are being chased (...) When those things aren’t happening (...) it’s boring as hell"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A Netflix thriller that's long on violence and short on personality (...) There’s a fine line between awe and tedium, and sometimes not even Chris Hemsworth is able to blur it for us."	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"An ultraviolent action film (...) Sometimes it's refreshing when a movie is just an improper noun that delivers what it promises (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Thriller reminiscent of a 'Bourne' movie (...) It’s a shame this real crowd-pleaser won’t be playing to crowds, but it still works as a Friday night, pop-the-popcorn, living room entertainment (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"The result is something that packs some of the visceral punch of a Tony Scott action thriller but little of the heart: not so much 'Man on Fire' as 'Man Smouldering Gently' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"Hargrave constructs some terrific action sequences (...) Yet, it's also tone-deaf in the way it centers its thinly-sketched narrative around a white protagonist who kills a whole lot of brown-skinned people, all in the name of saving one he's taken a liking to."	NEU
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"No matter what we’re getting at any given time, it’s always punctuated by bullets whizzing through flesh and explosions warping buildings and vehicles. Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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