Saturday, May 2, 2020

Extraction










                   Tell you what, to everyone planing there movie you need lots of things but number one is making sure you have the script ready to go. Not just one draft, Shakespeare made changes to his plays, and the guy who co-directed 4 marvel movies with is brother could have probably used this advice. So yes I hated this movie really hated this movie.  It's like Someone gave Steven Seagal 65 million to make the movie Half Past Dead but with the good sense not to cast Ja Rule.  Hey, a nice thing I could say about this movie is it had the good sense not to cast Ja Rule. Or is that a bad thing, because I would love to see that movie, was Ja promises thor a kick-ass music festival and steals thors money and leaves him on some island and thor is out for revenge. Ok, that's probably going too far but that movie I just pitched probably makes a better script then Joe Russo train wreck.
                  In Extraction, Miley Cyrus ex-brother inlaw plays Tyler Rake a guy with a death wish. Unlike the guy in the movie Death Wish we see what made Charles Bronson sad. That's why right here I am going to give you one abe screenwriters some advice show don't tell really making a movie is a visual medium.  We go into Helmsworths being drop into some bad place where he has to rescue a kidnapped son of a gangster.   Every part of this movie from here on out can be seen in any regular action movie these days.  Copying and pasting action secure from other more original movies rather than trying something new is Hollywood these days but still frustrating when you see a lost opportunity like this movie. I will give Extraction this the acting is superb the actors give you compelling characters to watch.  When the movie slows down in some places Helmsworth chews the scenery very well.  Hats off to Rudhraksh Jaiswal a kid with a bright future. David Harbour shows up also and dose some heavy breathing and then you don't see him again. The last shout out is to Saju Rav he plays a hell of a badass than you wish he was in a better movie. 
             In closing a Shakespeare once said just because you can hit someone with a truck doesn't mean you should. Instead, add something that adds depth to your charters so as the audience we will care about them when something happens to them. Now that was probably not an exact quote by Shakespeare English literature was a long time ago.  But if he was alive today I would like to think he would tell Joe Russo that he was available to write him a much better script.  Or he probably would have better things to do since he is Shakespeare.  Now let give some love to Director Sam Hargrave I understand you might not have the script but you can tell David Harbour to stop with the over the top breathing yes we get it violence is bad.  If the audience cared about that we would be watching the office for the 3rd time. You could also not focus on charters you don't have time to set up. Or build up charters and not deliver a payoff.  So in the end, -4 stars because why not don't see this movie if you're looking for something to do and you have gone through your Netflix subscription you could I don't know maybe stare at a blank wall. That would at least tell the Russo brothers not to leave marvel so soon.

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