I wanted to love this movie. Indeed, some of the cinematography is well-done. Some of the acting is OK, too. The killer for me is the story. Typically, I can suspend logic when watching a movie. I am on the side of the movie makers, and WANT to believe what they are asking me to believe. I am a friend to movies. I'm rooting for them. Optimism aside, this Netflix original is one of the poorest written stories offered by the streaming site to-date. It's endlessly loaded firearms, and the hero's penchant for the double-tap coup de grâce fighting style becomes lazy after a while. I have heard review that liken it to a John Wick-style, ultra-violent, revenge fantasy. The difference between the movies' approach to killing, however, could not be more different. John Wick lives in a dream-like word of paid assassins, where Extraction exists in a gritty, morally bankrupt reality. The story has very little, humor or heart. At last count, Chris Hemsworth's character kills 183 people. John Wick's body count is notoriously high as well, however, Wick's killing has context. He is getting his revenge. Extraction holds no such justification. In order to save one boy, there are hundreds of deaths. Where John Wick kills bad guys. Extraction, in stark contrast, kills police officers and military troops. Almost 200 kills for the life of one drug trafficker's son. I just don't buy it!