When Ovi Mahajan Jr. (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), son of notorious imprisoned Mumbai based drug lord Ovi Mahajan Sr. (Pankaj Tripathi), is abducted by rival Dhaka based drug lord Amir Asif (Priyanshu Painyuli), the elder Mahajan gives his head of security Saju Rav (Randeep Hooda) an ultimatum to either rescue his son from Dhaka or else Saju's family will be killed for his failure. With Mahajan's assets frozen by the Indian government, Saju hatches a plan to hire mercenaries to bring back Ovi. Australian mercenary Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is brought the job by his partner Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) and they assemble a crew to head into Dhaka and extract Ovi from Amir Asif's forces. While Tyler successful rescues Ovi, the extraction is complicated as Saju betrays the team intending to kill Tyler's team and take Ovi himself. Despite the job being compromised, Tyler tries to get Ovi back to safety eluding both Amir's forces as well as Saju.

Extraction is a 2020 action film produced by the prolific Russo brothers with Joe Russo having written the screenplay based on the graphic novel Ciudad he co-created with his brother Anthony and Ande Parks. The film marks the debut of veteran stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave who worked with the Russos on Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. The movie marked the first major collaboration between the Russos and Netflix and with its massive success on the platform at one point being Netflix's most viewed movie, the two would go on to collaborate on further projects. While the movie itself is a solid technical exercise with a solid showcase or action setpieces, it's also a movie that isn't all that substantial and won't linger with you past the end credits.

I will say that Chris Hemsworth is good playing a more grounded character in comparison to his previous work and in terms of dramatic work he does give a solid performance of a lost soul looking for redemption. Sam Hargrave does a good job at showcasing the intensity of the action and some sequences such as a "oner" chase scene done as if it were in one take. I also thought Randeep Hooda was quite good as opposite Hemsworth playing a morally ambiguous deuteragonist. The story itself is where I feel much of issues come about because whenever the action isn't happening a lot of the more dramatic moments tend to fall kind of flat. While Rudhraksh Jaiswal does what he can with the material, the line where be basically says he's a package rings a bit too true as he's not particularly rich in characterization and a major scene between him and Hemsworth just falls flat.

Extraction is perfectly serviceable in terms of action entertainment, but it's also a movie that you'll be hard pressed to remember much of once the end credits roll. It's a suitable time killer, but it wasn't a movie that I was particularly engrossed in and I did find it wared on me as it went on.