“Weeks after the first ‘Extraction’ premiered on Netflix, it was anointed the streamer’s most-watched original movie. I don’t know if the sequel will match that, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t,” writes Tribune critic Nina_Metz.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Chris Hemsworth is back as Tyler Rake, mercenary for hire and extractor extraordinaire, in"Extraction 2."
The original ends with a brief postscript: The rescued teenage son of a drug lord is reacclimating to life when, suddenly, a hazy Tyler-shaped figure appears in the distance, suggesting he survived that terrible fall after all and is now paying the kid a visit. The new movie retcons that — didn’t happen, folks! — and instead picks up with our man washed up ashore somewhere, not long after plummeting from the bridge, and he’s airlifted out.
From left: Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake and Tinatin Dalakishvili as his latest client/sister-in-law in"Extraction 2." The prison sequence is pretty compelling, as these things go. Midway through, Tyler is clobbered on the head and everything goes silent except for muted buzzing as the concussion sets in. Doesn’t stop him, though. Is this the testosterone-infused version of “nevertheless, she persisted”?
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