This happened on your watch, and you’re a badass special forces motherfucker or whatever. But he’s in prison and can’t really afford the ransom or the humiliation of paying it, so instead he threatens the family of his henchman Saju (Randeep Hooda, MONSOON WEDDING, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI, JJANNAT 2). That’s because Ovi’s dad (Pankaj Tripathi, GANGS OF WASSEYPUR) is the biggest drug lord in India. One day while Tyler is minding his own business terrifying his buddies by spontaneously cliff diving and then meditating/contemplating death underwater, a nice young nerd kid in India named Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) is kidnapped by minions of a sadistic Bangladeshi crime lord named Amir Asif (Priyanshu Painyuli, ROCK ON 2). Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, who is not an elite hacker this time, but he does get to travel around the world hiding out, shooting, exploding and stabbing because he’s in the similar vocation of depressed ex-special ops very expensive black market mercenary. I guess that’s also his connectcion to Chris Hemsworth ( A PERFECT GETAWAY), but in my opinion he completely forgot about Thor and cast him strictly because he thought it was fucking bullshit that BLACKHAT didn’t become a franchise. And they were wise enough to get him as director for this movie based on their 2014 graphic novel Ciudad (written with Ande Parks, adapted for the screen by Joe Russo). Sam Hargrave has been the Captain America stunt double since the first THE AVENGERS, and a Marvel fight/stunt coordinator/second unit director since CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, so he was well known to “visionary directors” Joe and Anthony Russo, who used their Marvel money to start the production company/studio AGBO. I’m glad they figured out a way to get people interested – I’ve been anticipating it for a while, but “it’s the first movie directed by the stuntman who did the action direction for ATOMIC BLONDE and WOLF WARRIOR II” maybe doesn’t have the same currency with normal people as it does for me. And there aren’t movie theaters at the moment anyway, so it was the hot movie to see this weekend. EXTRACTION seems to be getting good promotion as far as non-awards-contender-made-for-Netflix movies go.
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