We meet Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) on a bridge, battered and bloody, in the middle of a shootout with enemies all around him. As he stumbles and looks off into space, we get a flashback of a little boy at a beach suggesting a previous loss or memory of happier times. It becomes clear, after some exposition, forward motion, and more flashbacks, that we've come in at the end of the story; whatever Tyler got himself into with the shooting and the bloodiness will end on that bridge.
Tyler is a for-hire mercenary whose job is to locate and extract the son of an incarcerated Indian crime boss from another crime boss in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The mission itself is not without challenges, but Tyler makes fast work of it, disposing of the team of enemy operatives (but leaving a child within their midst unharmed) and leaving a trail of bodies and exploded machinery behind in every scene. Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the fourteen-year-old son in question, is a kind and seemingly trusting young man who initially balks at Tyler's methods but comes to trust and depend on Tyler as the two make way through Dhaka. It doesn't take long for the first crime boss to realize Ovi's been taken, and thus every street, every truck, and every man in the city becomes a potential trap or assassin on the lookout for the pair, led secretively by the imprisoned crime bosses's right hand man and Ovi's former caretaker, Saju (Randeep Hooda), a special ops soldier charged with the responsibility of getting Ovi back.

The film takes a chance in informing us about the unpleasantness of life for both rich and poor in these spaces. Ovi has grown up in privilege but has only a piano with which to communicate; the boys working on the streets of Dhaka work to win the pride and protection of a drug lord who would just as soon toss them over a rooftop. Crime and poverty have created a generation of young boys who long for father figures---lucky for us, Ovi and Tyler seem to be seeking the same thing (watch all the way to the end and pay attention). Would that Tyler could do more for the street boys than simply not kill them, but such is another story altogether.
Extraction is directed by Sam Hargrave, written by Joe Russo (based on his graphic novel "Ciudad") and is available now on Netflix. Extraction runs 1 hour, 56 minutes and is rated R for for strong bloody violence throughout, language and brief drug use.
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