Extraction- My Review: An action packed thriller with a heart..

Synopsis: A black-market mercenary who has nothing to lose is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord. But in the murky underworld of weapons dealers and drug traffickers, an already deadly mission approaches the impossible.

My Review: Extraction is an action packed thrill ride with a good story. It is not actually an action movie with just explosions and gun fire, it is an action movie with a heart. The movie is packed with high octane action but the movie managed to find a balance between a good story and action. Everything the characters does in the movie has a reason and story behind it. Instead of just being an action thriller, the movie explores the different characters in depth and shows where they come from and why they do such things. Chris Hemsworth and Rudraksh Jaiswal did an amazing job and had a really good connection. Another one of the think i liked is the casting. Instead of casting A level stars, they included a mix of a level and indie actors to the movie which showed an underappreciated talent line in the Indian- indie area. There are many small things i noticed in the movie that made it more real and added depth to the characters and the setting of the movie. For example, there was a shot where two people drive a scooter between the characters having a knife fight, which might be possible in the Indian traffic and Bangladesh is not far different from it.

Positives: The movie is filled with some great action sequences. The direction and cinematography is really good which adds an intense feel to the movie effectively. The music in the movie is just amazing. It really enhances the thrill and anxiety in us while we are following the characters through heaps of gun fire and explosions. All the actors showed a solid and natural performance. The movie just didn't make any characters left without closure. In many action movies, there will be many characters who we overlook and doesn't get a proper closure. But in Extraction, every character who showed a small importance in the movie get a closure. Even the bad ones.

Negatives: Even though the movie is filled with action, the movie become very slow for some time in the middle. But it was not for long before we were brought back to the streets to fight. Personally, i hate shaky cam, not even a little shaky. There were shaky cams through out the chase scenes of the movie. But they didn't use them for actual fight scenes which i appreciate.

I really had a good time watching the movie. It is a movie packed with amazing action, chase and a little bit of emotion to it. I definitely recommend it.

My Rating: 3/5