Every movie has different ambitions; some want to raise social issues, others to look at a specific part of the human condition, some want to transport you to another world, and some just want to show you a hulking, heavily-armed hero kill a full army’s worth of gangsters and terrorists. It’s on this final aim that Netflix’s Extraction 2 has set its sights, and it does so rather well, an action sequel that does the requisite ante-upping, dragging Chris Hemsworth’s improbably-named Tyler Rake from his near-death injuries in the original to take the fight international, moving across continents on a high-stakes, but personal, mission.
Picking up immediately after the end of the Dhaka mission from the original, returning director Sam Hargrave (with the Russo Brothers again on producing and writing duties) spends some time on the rehab process as Rake recovers from his calamitous injuries, but it’s not *too* long before we’re back in the action saddle. Chopping wood in a snowy forest – as recuperating action heroes are of course wont to do – Rake is approached by a mysterious agent (played by Idris Elba in an obviously franchise-expanding cameo) on behalf of his ex-wife Mia (Olga Kurylenko). Mia wants Rake to use his legendary killing prowess to extract her sister Ketevan (Tinatin Dalakishvili) and her kids from a Georgian prison, where they’re being held alongside Ketevan’s abusive husband Davit thanks to his brother Zurab’s (Tornike Gogrichiani) political connections.
It’s quite a bit of set up packed into not much time and the result is annoyingly choppy, especially as there are a few subsequent dry spells where it feels like the film is wasting time that would have been better spent in this first act, but, as is to largely be expected, these plot moves really are just ways to kick the action off. Here, Extraction 2 mostly shines. The big selling point has been a 20-minute action sequence cleverly stitched together as a false ‘oner’, and it turns out that’s for good reason – it’s a thrilling collation of set-pieces that packs in all of Extraction 2’s best stuff.
Hargrave moves us from the bowels of the prison to a massive courtyard brawl to a shootout on a moving train that involves helicopters, miniguns, and some gnarly hand-to-hand combat. Hemsworth is, again, entirely convincing as a proper action star (one of the few big actors of his generation to really do so), brutal and quick-witted in his fights, Hargrave thinking up some very fun environmental kills, particularly during a fight in a gym.
Whenever the bullets stop flying, though, your interest will wane fast thanks to very generic dialogue, and it has to be said that Extraction 2 is not a very pretty film – there’s none of the John Wick films’ sense of panache or good-humoured imagination, for example. Despite its massive scale and body count, Extraction 2 is a bit overly committed to its more grounded aesthetic; when you’ve got a Georgian mob invading Europe to vengefully hunt down an Aussie mercenary while killing countless cops, you don’t necessarily have to be so po-faced about it.
Had I been able to see Extraction 2 on a big screen, I may have felt more fondly towards it, but Netflix aren’t giving it even a courtesy week in cinemas. On a laptop, it’s still a diverting and superbly choreographed two hours of action but it never quite 100% grips. That said, whenever the inevitable Extraction 3 comes out, there’s enough here to keep me checking back in with this series.
Jack Blackwell – Film Reviews 
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