Extraction / YMMV - TV Tropes

Adaptation Displacement: How many people know that it is based on a graphic novel written by one of the film's screenwriters? The film's setting change means that it overshadows the novel in the public's eyes.
Anti-Climax Boss: Asif is unceremoniously assassinated by Khan in a clubhouse bathroom eight months after Ovi is successfully rescued. It doesn't appear to have been complicated to pull off, either.
He's Just Hiding: Not a lot viewers could easily buy that Tyler was killed in the climactic battle, without even counting the mysteriously out-of-focus man Ovi sees appear at the very end. We see Tyler dying but we never see him die, the bullet wound in his neck is bleeding badly but clearly missed the carotid artery, when he falls into the river his body is never seen in wide shots, and we already saw in his Establishing Character Moment that the guy can stay underwater for a pretty long time. The sequel's teaser immediately confirms these suspicions.
Hilarious in Hindsight: It sure is funnier watching Tyler and Gaspar interact and later fight each other after David Harbour would join the cast of Black Widow, making his scenes with Chris Hemsworth the closest we'll get to seeing the Red Guardian meet Thor Odinson.
Moral Event Horizon: Asif's Establishing Character Moment has his right-hand man throw a kid off a roof to find out which one stole from him in house. Also one for Farhad for positioning the kid so he would die first and spare himself.
Questionable Casting: Bangladeshi Filmmaker Raffael Ahsan was brought on to translate the script into Bengali. But the Indian actors casted could barely speak the language co-herently. Ahsan even tried to suggest bringing in Bengali speaking actors but was refused due to lack of star power yet with exception of Bollywood star Randeep Hooda playing the Indian Saju. None of the Asian cast in the film were known actors anyways.
- On a side note, the Casting Director was Sarah Halley Finn, who seems to have a habit of Interchangeable Asian Cultures approach toward South Asian casting, which fans noticed later with her work on Ms. Marvel. On the topic of Marvel, she also tends to frequently cast actors from Marvel but somehow missed British Bangladeshi Jan Uddin^note, who was recently featured in the sixth season of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. not too long before Extraction was in pre-production while Indian Priyanshu Painyuli was cast simply because she believed his Hindu name sounded like he could be Bangladeshi.^note
Signature Scene: The Oner, in which Tyler and Ovi engage in a Car Chase through the city and subsequently travel through multiple buildings while fighting off soldiers, cops, and the pursuing Saju, is almost unanimously agreed to be not only the best action sequence in the movie, but also one of the best of all time in recent memory.
Too Cool to Live: Gaspar is an ex-mercenary who is able to subdue the admittedly injured Tyler while drunk. Naturally, he gets shot by Ovi in self-defense when he tries to explain why he's giving him up to Asif.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Saju toes the line heavily with this trope. While he is shown to be a dedicated husband and father, and his wife tells him to do "whatever it takes" so that Ovi's father won't take his wrath out on them, he still kills Tyler's whole team in cold blood after getting them to do all the work. Bear in mind, these men could have families they love just as much as Saju. Even more egregious when we see Tyler's initial rescue of Ovi from the thugs in the apartment building, as he kills them all single-handedly with barely a scratch. Since it's later established that Tyler and Saju are more-or-less equally skilled, it makes little sense that he didn't go get Ovi himself.
The Woobie: Tyler is a Death Seeker who lives out in a shack in the middle of the Australian wilderness after his wife left him and his son died of cancer. The Woobie-ness is balanced by Tyler's admission that he volunteered for a third tour of duty in Afghanistan so he wouldn't have to watch his son die, by implication leaving that ordeal to his wife alone. He does call himself a "coward" over it, though.
- Ovi Mahajan who, in addition to having a gangster father, being acutely aware of what that entails and absolutely hating it, gets kidnapped (and has to watch one of his friends get shot in the process) and put through an absolute wringer throughout the movie, culminating in him shooting Gaspar, when the latter tries to sell him back to his kidnappers and breaking down crying on Tyler's shoulder saying he just wants to go home.

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