First off, this is a good movie to kill two hours. Who doesn't love Chris Hemsworth? He's one of those guys men want to be and women want to be with. He has great screen presence and he just seems like a likeable guy,

The movie has a ton of action and the fight scenes are at a John Wick-ish level for production, choreography and execution. The opening sequence where Hemsworth's character rescues the young boy and kills like a dozen men is filmed at close quarters, is very fast paced and is hilariously violent. The camera jumps around the scene so you get different angles.

Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, a depressed, burnt out former special forces soldier turned mercenary. He is hired to "extract" the 14-year old son (a very good Rudhraksh Jaiswal) of a imprisoned drug dealer from a rival drug dealer's clutches. The movie is set in India and the scenery is bleak, dirty and does not do India's reputation any favors. Once he rescues the boy, his team is ambushed and Tyler is left alone with the boy trying to navigate his way through the city to an extraction point. The father's right hand man, Saju, (an also very good Randeep Hooda) is likewise a former special forces soldier and he is tracking Tyler and the boy as well, holding his own personal motivations.

David Harbor as an old friend with a safe house and Golshifteh Farahani as Tyler's handler Nik Khan are good in small roles. And that is the problem. The movie had some real potential to develop characters we care about, but it sacrifices 3D characters for action and violence. Tyler and Saju are two sides of the same coin, but that isn't explored very well other than a few quick scenes of their families. Nik is a bad ass supporting character, but her role is just yelling Tyler's name into a radio most of the time, until the end climax and epilogue. There is no sense of history between them...or between any of the characters. This movie had some pretty decent talent involved and it just felt wasted to make room for more action. When characters died, I didn't care because I had no emotional investment in these people.

As I said the action scenes are superb. The scene of Tyler and Ovi racing through a rundown apartment complex chased by a slew of soldiers, police and gangsters is filmed in several very long takes and the camera is so close to the action you almost feel the punches. The fight that culminates this scene between Tyler and Saju is as good as anything in John Wick. Its a highlight of the film.

A good movie that could have been great had it spent some more time on its characters. Still, I enjoyed it and look forward to Hemsworth's next project.