Extraction, a Slow Motion Belly Flop
This review will tell you why you probably will not enjoy watching Extraction.
By. Jacob
Edited: 2020-08-04 01:34
Spoiler alert!
The following review will reveal parts of the ending, since it is so horrendously bad that you will only regret watching the movie.
This review is going to be brief, since there is not much to be said.
I recently watched Extraction on Netflix, thinking it looked interesting; but it just did not have any particularity memorable moments in it. The guiding feel of the movie is rushed, and the ending in particular was just plain bad, with, basically, some poorly picked music playing while some cross-fading video sequences of little relevance was playing out.. I got the feeling the production just ran out of money and had to make some ending.
Extraction is painful to watch
Extraction was just painful to watch, almost everything that they could get wrong about the movie, they also did get wrong. The only fairly enjoyable part about the movie was the action — practically everything else was shit — and then again, even the action was just not done right.
The problem with the action part is that it just kept coming from all directions, and at times the camera work just felt artificial, or like something out of a video game; I am specifically thinking of the scene where Tylor and Ovi is jumping buildings.
In one of the few breaks we do get, Ovi and Tylor is having a sentimental moment. Ovi asking Tylor a bunch of boring questions about his family; and the acting is just not very convincing. It offers a tiny window into Tylor's character and motivations, but it feels out of place, is poorly done, and of no significance to the story.
Even those that were supposed lend a helping hand, and thereby grant a much needed break from the action, turns out to be bad guys — and all of the heroes gets themselves killed — how is that remotely interesting to watch?
At some point this female character steps in to save the day, but I am amazed she can even pick up a rocket launcher with those skinny arms, and she also feels completely out of place. She did not belong on the ground — and she for sure should not be given a rocket launcher or a sniper rifle.
Finally, the leaders of the bad guys are hiding out, at long distance, observing the battlefield with binoculars; and one of them unfortunately happen to own a sniper rifle — for whatever ridiculous reason. I guess he just happened to be the only bad-guy to own a sniper, or everyone else is just to stupid to think of using one.
Conclusion
The entire movie was one long cat and mouse chase, with the bad guys chasing the good guys; mostly the good guys got to kill lots of bad guys — but bad guys just kept spawning out of nowhere. That is, until our hero, aka Tyler Rake managed to get himself killed; and that is in the most stupid way you can think of.
This finally concludes the movie in what is fairly described as a slow motion belly flop — it is almost as if the director intentionally wanted to torture the viewer, and give us time to think: why did I waste my time watching this junk?
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