A passable action flick that aims to be JOHN WICK but is nowhere in the same league. The massive Chris Hemsworth plays some sort of special forces gun-for-hire type who is tasked with rescuing (i.e. "extracting") the son of a Bangladeshi drug lord who was kidnapped by a rival drug lord. This is the setup for action-set-piece after action-set-piece. The action is solid and above average, and I most appreciate that the action is more street-level of action that's grounded in reality, along the lines of WICK or HEAT as opposed to Michael Bay-style (BAD BOYS, TRANSFORMERS, etc.) of bombastic nonsense. Stuntman-turned-director Sam Hargrave (he was Captain America's stunt double) keeps the action closer to reality with long continuous shots, with sneaky cuts here and there, but the absence of excessive fast cutting is a welcome change of pace. Still, EXTRACTION is nowhere as good as WICK or HEAT and the film also has some problematic elements with a giant white savior blowing away a bunch of brown people in a developing country, including smacking around some child soldiers. Still, it kept my interest while I was exercising on my elliptical.