Extraction Review

Sam Hargrave spent years coordinating stunts for the Russo brothers on Marvel films, and they produced his first feature for Netflix, with Joe Russo adapting Ciudad, a graphic novel he created with his brother and Ande Parks. The debut knows where its strength lies. Once Chris Hemsworth's Rake has the boy, Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the film launches a chase of more than twelve minutes, by car, on foot and by car again, through gunfights and hand-to-hand brawls, stitched to play as one take, with Hargrave strapped to the front of a camera car for much of it.

Hemsworth is better here than in most of his franchise work, heavy, quiet and physically convincing, and Randeep Hooda matches him as Saju, a security chief with his own reasons to reach the boy. Newton Thomas Sigel shoots Dhaka, largely recreated in India and Thailand, in a yellow haze that turns a real city into a war zone, and Bangladeshi critics objected.

The script gives Rake a dead son and the boy a few lines about fathers, and treats nearly everyone else as a target; Variety called it a white-savior version of Man on Fire, and Metacritic sits at 56. The action is the reason it exists, and it is reason enough.