No longer much in the business of letting auteurs make passion projects, Netflix instead gets summer started with action thriller Extraction 2. An assertively functional sequel to the 2020 lockdown hit, Chris Hemsworth returns as Tyler Rake, Australian mercenary with a heart of gold. His manner is still tropishly blunt. Same-again-but-more-so is the order of the day throughout, despite stock self-deprecation. “We’ve done everything we can,” a minor character says. “It would be wise to consider a threshold.” Consider that ignored.
Framed as a world tour, the movie (directed by Sam Hargrave) sets to work with the terse efficiency it admires in its hero. The Amalfi coast supplies aspirational views; Gmunden, Austria, a scenic backdrop for training montages. But a hellish Georgian prison acts as springboard for the plot, slipping into motion when Rake is hired to save the wife and children of an imprisoned drug lord, still powerful enough to have his family held against their will in a cell near his own. The world of the extractor may be morally complex. That is not on.
Very occasionally, Hemsworth is asked to tap the comic timing familiar from his role in Marvel’s Thor franchise. But the point is the violence: gunfights and hand-to-hand rumbles that unfold as precision-engineered feats of stuntwork, delivered with a hint of video game live streaming (or a loud recital of interpretive dance). Made to cater to an appetite for scenes of bloody mayhem that look good on a big TV, the movie does nothing that doesn’t satisfy the job description.
★★★☆☆
On Netflix from June 16
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