Heavily promoted by Netflix at the moment, starring an Avenger, written by the "Endgame" directors and directed by the Avengers stunt co-ordinator, you might expect "Extraction" to be a low key gem. It isn't. Unfortunately it's largely run of the mill, but it does have a few great action sequences that elevate it above similar straight-to-video nonsense.

Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), son of an imprisoned Indian drug lord, is kidnapped by Amir Asif (Priyanshu Painyuli) his father's Bangladeshi rival. Knowing that he'll be held to account for this, Saju (Randeep Hooda) a lieutenant in the Indian family and Ovi's guardian engages a crack mercenary team to extract the boy. The team, with Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) on point, successfully rescue Ovi, but soon discover that Asif's massive influence of the Police, Army and his own street gangs make getting out almost impossible.

As I said in the opening paragraph, there are a few action scenes in this film that are much better than the overall film deserves. The rescue scene is visceral exciting close combat stuff, but it was the later driving scene where I really started to take notice - particularly of the excellent camera work. The camera tracks the vehicle, circulates to the front when the car needs to reverse and then, in a bravura move, enters the car and sits on the back seat. There are a number of "John Wick" type gun fights for the remainder of the film which, whilst never quite hitting the heights of that franchise, are OK.

That said, the rest of the film is a pretty predictable and generic thriller and you'll see the twists and plot points coming a mile off. I can understand why it had Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis attached at various points. Chris Hemsworth is OK, better than either of those would have been, even if it does feel like him playing "sad action man" is a bit of a waste, given his comedic talent. Randeep Hooda is given more of an arc, and provides a better performance because of it.

Perfectly acceptable way to spend a couple of hours, but I'll never watch it again.