It is no surprise following the success of the 2020 Netflix film Extraction that Chris Hemsworth is back as the larger-than-life action hero Tyler Rake in Extraction 2. The star and producer, arguably best known for playing Thor in various Marvel movies for more than a decade, returns to the screen as the Australian black ops mercenary - this time, tasked to take on a globe-trotting mission that hits much closer to home. Explosive, mind-bending action returns front and center with Netflix's Extraction 2, a sequel to the 2020 Chris Hemsworth mercenary adventure written by Joe Russo and directed by MCU stunt master/Captain America stunt double Sam Hargrave. Hargrave made his directorial debut with Extraction, which instantly placed him among the top action directors working today thanks to the ambitious intensity of the set pieces and a very impressive 12-minute oner/single take.
Critic Robert Brian Taylor calls these movies part of "The Sad Action Hero canon." Chris Hemsworth is its most notable new member. He plays Tyler Rake—a young boy's idea for an action hero name, but Hemsworth makes him seem almost like a real person. He's a tremendous physical actor, possibly as good as Schwarzenegger and Stallone in their primes, but with more range. He's played a scheming male bimbo, a legendary computer hacker, a depressed mercenary, a 19th-century whaler, a cult leader, and the mighty Thor, all convincingly. He's got a bit of the young Sean Connery's self-aware swagger as well. But there's also a buried sadness to him, and that's what the "Extraction" films dig out.
The setup of the sequence is simple. (Everything in this movie is simple.) Rake has agreed to help extract a woman, Ketevan (Tinatin Dalakishvili), and her two kids from a Georgian prison where they are being housed alongside her mobster husband, who wants his family by his side while he serves out his sentence. At first, the delirious camerawork following Rake and his wards through the bowels of the crowded, labyrinthine prison enhances their confusion, and the frantic pace accelerates as the various inmate gangs rise up and attack our heroes. Then we move on to a big, crowded prison-yard mêlée involving axes, guns, knives, shovels, grenades, and one movie star with a flaming arm. This section is genuinely uproarious. (It’s a shame that most people watching Extraction 2 will have to experience this inside of their existential-content cocoons and not in a rowdy movie theater.) Alas, the one-shot sequence keeps going after that into a car chase, a train chase, and a helicopter chase, and after a while, what’s happening onscreen ceases to matter, because it seems like the only thing the filmmakers care about is keeping this tired visual gimmick going. By the time the umpteenth black car is getting bazooka’d into oblivion, we can smell the desperation behind the camera.
Written by Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo and produced by him and his fellow filmmaking brother Anthony Russo, Extraction 2 may have assembled some familiar players from the Marvel Cinematic Universe but Hemsworth has noticed a distinct difference on this new project, compared to other big action films made lately.
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