Joe Russo should stick to Marvel films with his brother, because Extraction is one mess of a script. It also doesn't help that his stunt coordinator for his Marvel films directed this movie. Extraction yells mediocrity from beginning to end.

Chris Hemsworth is called to rescue the son of a Hindu drug lord in Dhaka. The plot is simple enough, but OOPS, it lacks foresight, character development, and anything resembling logic. It's obvious Russo wrote this script while his mind was on Avengers, because the story is so surface level and dull that nothing feels salvageable. This is because the film moves so quickly to get to Dhaka and the action scenes that there's no time to develop character.

Chris Hemsworth plays a mercenary who's ONLY character trait is that he misses his dead son. THAT'S IT! Beyond that, he's just a soulless automaton. The man who kidnaps the boy has no character outside of "I'm the villain, therefore I kidnap kids and kill them" and THAT'S IT. The boy, named Ovi, has no trait other than "My father treats me like a thing" and THAT'S IT. All the main characters have little to no character so I couldn't care about them. The secondary characters have more going for them!

The filmmaking and editing are by-the-books bland. Other than the typical shaky cam and odd angled action shots, there's a random LONG take shot that comes outta nowhere and just took me out of the movie. It's so out of place from the rest of the movie-plus it totally doesn't help the action scenes one bit-that I felt the director ONLY did it because he wanted to show off and be like "HEY, I CAN SHOOT A LONG SHOT ACTION TAKE TOO!" I hate using this word-because it's often overused and misused-but it came off as utterly pretentious and unnecessary.

Extraction is ONLY getting praise for the action scenes, which I find to be very disconcerting. Like I said, the action scenes aren't anything special. I've heard some people call it the John Wick of mercenary films?? ehhhhh, no. John Wick at least has character and is campy enough to have fun watching. This film is just a mediocre, poorly thought out, sad waste of time and Chris Hemsworth. If you want to watch a really good mercenary type film on Netflix-in the same vein of Extraction-watch Triple Frontier.