While we've certainly had incredible shoot-'em up action movies in the last twenty years like John Wick, I've still questioned when will we get the next Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone? When will we get the next big, muscular action hero? The answer has arrived in Chris Hemsworth. I loved Hemsworth in Thor, and thought he was great jn the first Extraction movie, but he was incredible here. He delivered all of his lines very well.
Like the first movie, Extraction 2 delivers best-in-class action that's as wild as an '80s movie yet quite believable (mostly). Part of that was not only having protagonists getting shot, but then reacting and getting slower as a result. Again, like those great classic action movies this one brought exceptional one-liners (not as great as others but still pretty good ones). However one thing that griped about from the first movie is they didn't spend enough time developing the characters, but Extraction 2 did, making the emotional scenes far more impactful.
All in all this is a great movie that reminds me of the fun of those classic '80s movies while taking advantage of modern technologies and techniques. Most impressively it doesn't make the same mistakes those movies made: it has a very unique setting, it found a way to bring the character back into action, and the action wasn't just senseless, it was very well thought through and planned. In fact, this movie did something a lot of movies across a lot of genres don't do: be better than the original.
Even if you don't agree with me about the artistic mastery in the movie, you will still enjoy the incredible action. This movie really restored my confidence in Hollywood to the maximum (probably temporarily)!
Like the first movie, Extraction 2 delivers best-in-class action that's as wild as an '80s movie yet quite believable (mostly). Part of that was not only having protagonists getting shot, but then reacting and getting slower as a result. Again, like those great classic action movies this one brought exceptional one-liners (not as great as others but still pretty good ones). However one thing that griped about from the first movie is they didn't spend enough time developing the characters, but Extraction 2 did, making the emotional scenes far more impactful.
All in all this is a great movie that reminds me of the fun of those classic '80s movies while taking advantage of modern technologies and techniques. Most impressively it doesn't make the same mistakes those movies made: it has a very unique setting, it found a way to bring the character back into action, and the action wasn't just senseless, it was very well thought through and planned. In fact, this movie did something a lot of movies across a lot of genres don't do: be better than the original.
Even if you don't agree with me about the artistic mastery in the movie, you will still enjoy the incredible action. This movie really restored my confidence in Hollywood to the maximum (probably temporarily)!