Extraction

Alex recommended I watch this, describing it as a "John Wick, but for the military". I joked that meant it was America that died of cancer instead of a wife, and he responded, "Yeah, kinda."

It's not actually like that at all. Chris Hemsworth plays a burnt-out soldier living in India and very depressed over the death of his child from lymphoma. He accepts a job recovering the biggest drug lord in India's son from the biggest drug lord in Bangladesh. There's a double-cross - gotta love ludicrously wealthy drug kingpins who are also cheap as shit - and it's an increasingly beat to hell Hemsworth trying to get this kid out of Dhaka through a legion of soldiers, crooked cops, and various assorted criminal scumbags.

I'm a little surprised the boy accepts Hemsworth's word so quickly and sticks with him as things go wrong. Yes, he rescued him initially, but eventually they run into a guy who works for the kid's dad, and the kid decides to trust Hemsworth and keep running. It's not like he looks trustworthy. He looks like a derelict in combat gear.

Hemsworth kills a lot of cops and soldiers in this. We're meant to assume they are all on the take from the evil drug lord, but I gotta wonder if that's true. I mean, they're chasing a crazed looking guy in tactical gear dragging a teenager along behind him, and then the crazed guy starts killing them in large numbers.

Some of the fight scenes are fun. There's one in an alleyway at night against mostly a bunch of teens and children. It starts with two of them trying a drive-by on a motorcycle only to have Hemsworth jam a metal rod in their spokes. From there, he just beats these kids like a drum. Grabs one by the leg and swings him into the side of a van.

But other than a few of the fight scenes, I wouldn't recommend it. At the climax of the film, I found myself thinking, "Man, are they still trying to fight their way across this bridge?"