History Film / Extraction

''Extraction'' is a 2020 {{Action}} movie directed by Sam Hargrave and written by [[Creator/TheRussoBrothers Joe Russo]], based on the graphic novel ''Ciudad''.

The film's success on Netflix resulted in a sequel being greenlit.

''Extraction'' is an 2020 {{Action}} movie directed by Sam Hargrave and written by [[Creator/TheRussoBrothers Joe Russo]], based on the graphic novel ''Ciudad''.

''Extraction'' is an 2020 action movie directed by Sam Hargrave and written by [[Creator/TheRussoBrothers Joe Russo]], based on the graphic novel ''Ciudad''.

* GenderFlip: Ovi was a girl named Eva Roche in the graphic novel.

* ActionGirl: Nik Khan, one of Tyler's fellow mercenaries.

* RealityEnsues:

* {{Revenge}}: In one of the last scenes, Nik Khan shoots [[spoiler: Asif]] to avenge [[spoiler:Tyler]].
* ShoutOut:
** Tyler refers to the pack of kids that attacks them as "[[Film/TheGoonies The Goonies from Hell]]."
** Saju pinning a mook down with the barrel of his weapon as he reloads the weapon is almost certainly one from ''Film/JohnWickChapter2''.
*** In the same vein, when Farhad fights Tyler, he thrusts a knife at him and punches the hilt several times in an attempt to drive it further forward, replicating a similar technique in ''Film/JohnWick''.
* SnipingTheCockpit: Colonel Rashid manages this on the extraction chopper, forcing the copilot (one of Nik's mercenaries) to take the controls and bug out. Justified, since the chopper was attempting a landing.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Farhad completely gets away with shooting Tyler in the neck and killing him, presumably.]]

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Not ''one'' of the good guys wear helmets.

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The movie stars among others Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Creator/DavidHarbour, Golshifteh Farahani, and Randeep Hooda.

* AntiVillain: Saju wants to rescue Ovi so his family won't get killed by Ovi's father, but neither he nor the father want to pay the ransom money. Instead, he tricks Tyler's team into doing the heavy lifting and kills most of them so he can extract Ovi at the intended drop-off point himself.

** This is also how G is finally killed.

* ColdSniper: G.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: A truly bizarre variant without every actually hitting the "Marvin", wherein a friendly target is recklessly endangered when hitting them should be the absolute ''last'' thing the shooter wants to do. Saju spends a lot of the movie shooting at Tyler...when Ovi happens to be ''right next to him'', including ''in the same car'' that Saju is shooting at. Considering that Saju's one and only goal is extracting Ovi alive and unharmed, repeatedly shooting in his general direction during multiple firefights where he's actually ''more'' likely to hit the boy than his intended target seems like a gross oversight.

* TrialByFriendlyFire: A truly bizarre variant, wherein hitting the "friendly" target should be the absolute ''last'' thing the shooter wants to do. Saju spends a lot of the movie shooting at Tyler...when Ovi happens to be ''right next to him'', including ''in the same car'' that Saju is shooting at. Considering that Saju's one and only goal is extracting Ovi alive and unharmed, repeatedly shooting in his general direction during multiple firefights where he's actually ''more'' likely to hit the boy than his intended target seems like a gross oversight.

* BookEnds: Tyler is introduced jumping from a cliff into deep waters. The movie ends with [[spoiler:Tyler falling from the bridge into deep waters after getting shot.]]

-->'''Nik''': You're hoping if you spin the chamber enough times, you're gonna catch a bullet.

-->'''Tyler''': Yeah, knee, back, shoulder...

** Tyler, while notably injured, is attacked by a group of slum kids. Him being former special forces, and having a hundred pounds on each of them besides, the film doesn't even pretend the kids are a threat to him, and the fight is him mostly tossing them about like ragdolls.

* {{Revenge}}: In one of the last scenes, Nik Khan shoots [[spoiler: Asif]] to avenge Tyler.

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted hard. The bulletproof vests the cops wear stop even the point-blank pistol shots from Tyler's Glock. He needs to hit them either in the limbs or [[BoomHeadshot face]], or find some other way to neutralize them (in one case by throwing them off a railing). Oddly enough, the heavier body armor the regular soldiers wear seems to be less effective against Tyler's assault rifle.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The elderly Colonel easily kills several RedShirts as well as [[spoiler: Rajid]] using just one sniper rifle, while previously the protagonists killed ''hundreds'' of his men. This raises a question - why didn't any other members of the Dhaka's police force (possibly younger and of lower rank) do the sniping, when it proved to be so effective?

* MadeOfIron: Tyler and Saju are able to take an incredible amount of punishment ranging from falling off a roof to getting hit by a truck. [[spoiler:Even getting shot in the leg doesn't stop Tyler from killing lots of soldiers.]] Saju takes multiple hits from a UMP at close range that clearly penetrate (he leaves a large blood smear behind) and still manages to get up.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Even after Rashid opens fire on the chopper, nobody bothers to warn Tyler that there's a sniper in the area. He doesn't take cover like he should (only taking cover from the police and soldiers ahead of and behind him) and gets shot as a result.

* TheOner: The scene where Tyler escapes from the police together with Ovi is a 11 minutes and 30 seconds long oner created by stitching 36 shorter sequences together.