[Music] what is going on to all my movie fans out there and welcome back to my Channel movie
files today we're talking about the follow-up to a surprise hit on Netflix a couple years ago and
we're talking about the sequel of extraction 2 y'all I got the chance to check it out just a
couple days before it drops on Netflix on June 16th and I'm gonna let y'all know by the end of
this video If extraction 2 is worth checking out but first I want to talk to y'all in the
comment section let me know if you were a fan of the original and if you were excited for
the sequel and once y'all have seen extraction two what y'all think about it let me know your
favorite character your favorite moment your favorite action set piece in this movie what
were some things that didn't work for you all in this film and if you have seen and you have
enjoyed extraction one extraction two the question I have for y'all in the comments is do you want
an extraction three let's talk about that in the comment section so yes I was a fan of twin twins
distraction I thought that first time director Sam Hargrove did a phenomenal job with the action I'm
a fan of Chris Hemsworth I think he's greatest Thor but outside the MCU I'm not always the
biggest fan of the movies he's in but I like him as an actor and I thought he was awesome in the
first extraction so Elliot are you excited for the sequel I think the short answers to that is
yes and here we are talking about it let's start off by talking about Sam harvgrove who like I
have mentioned made his directorial debut in the original stunt man turned director and I thought
he did a really great job in that first one I think he did an even better job in the sequel
the reason I say that is because not only is this film bigger in scope and scale there is
a lot going on in this movie and I thought Sam did a good job of honing in and controlling the
chaos that's going on especially man when we get to the action which I will get to he did a great
job but something I noticed about especially when it comes to a director who is coming off their
first debut are they perfecting their craft I think that Sam did a better job on this one
compared to the original of handling the slower moments handling the more personal sentimental
one-on-one character quieter scenes in this sequel because this is a much more personal story this
time around and I thought Sam did a good job of allowing the audience to breathe in these more
quieter slower more intimate one-on-one scenes and I really appreciate that you can see the growth as
a director from Sam and I'm really excited to see him potentially do more of these extraction films
but I'm also excited to see Sam continue to grow as a director because I think he is becoming a
really solid director so pivoting over to a little bit of the story without giving too much away but
something that I appreciate about this second one more so than the first one this story is
more personal and in particular there is a focus on the family element in this film and there's a
lot of parallels going on especially with Tyler and the main villain in this idea of like broken
promises and this idea of like broken families and there's a lot going on within those Central
themes and I thought the story did a good job of making those themes making it more personal making
the steaks feel more present in the film which I enjoyed but I want to talk about Chris Hemsworth
who like I said a couple minutes ago I'm a fan of him as an actor I think he could do comedy I
definitely think he could do action I think he's just a great actor and I thought that's something
that I really enjoyed about Chris in this film is moments of his family history in the first one and
expanding on that in the sequel we understand a little bit more of the perspective of why
he's haunted by the decision he made in the first one involving his family getting more of that and
fleshing out the character more in this story because you can understand his motives in this
particular story focusing on the family that he's extracting and I really like what they did with
Tyler but I also want to talk about Tyler and in particularly Chris Hemsworth I'm not saying he's
at the table but he's knocking on that door as far as just being a bona fide action Superstar I mean
of course the Thor stuff but this this character tie Tyler rake again I'm not saying he's at the
table with the Keanu Reeves with John Wick and Rambo and Jason Bourne but my man's knocking on
the door man Tyler rake is that dude he has finesse when he needs to be but he's also a
brute he's also brutal he also punch your head in and I mean the action in with Tyler and of course
if you saw the first one my man was beaten up he was he was taken down for a bit and if you've seen
the trailer for this new one you know he's kind of rebuilding himself and he is definitely a monster
he's a beast in this sequel man so shout out to Chris Hemsworth but also I want to talk about
the I would say a co-lead of this movie and she's a part of Tyler rake's team I'm talking about go
shifter farahani I am probably butchering that I apologize but she plays Nikki now if you saw the
first one she was in the original and she has a lot more to do in this film but she is awesome in
this movie she gets a little bit more character moments but also she gets a lot more action in
this film and she definitely delivers it at an apartment so I definitely enjoyed her but now
listen man when I watch extraction I'm not here to have my life changed from this super integral
story I'm here for the action and I want to talk about the action with you all because this action
is incredible y'all now I think for me my favorite action movie of 2023 so far is John Wick chapter
four and all I'm saying is extraction is telling John Wick for some moments of this movie hold my
beard John wig I'm selling y'all in particularly I'm not gonna give too much away but it's been
hyped up and I want to talk about it the hype is true there is a 21-minute jailbreak sequence with
Tyler extraction you know taking a family out of prison let me tell y'all something man this
scene is incredible because it is multi-layered right there is hand-in-hand combat there's fires
being thrown at Tyler's bombs there's chaos all around this prison people can shank left and right
it's up there with the raid as far as that jail breakout that if you guys have seen the rain if
you haven't do yourself a favor is fantastic it's not as good as the red don't don't get that twist
I'm saying the jail scene in the raid in the jail scene in this one pretty comparable but not only
is a great hand-to-hand combat but then we also take it to a car chase involving motorcycles and
explosions and then it doesn't in there and I want to give the whole sequence away but then we have
a moment on a train and there's things going on and explosions and it's just pretty incredible so
yes the hype is real that 21 one take and you can see the cuts at some point but it is fantastic it
definitely is up to the hype but I will say there are some other action moments in this film that I
appreciate and I'll just say the weight room and when you see the film you know what I'm talking
about there's a moment where something happens with some weights and it was pretty spectacular
so I thought the action definitely stepped up from the first one in a very major way but with
that action I want to take a moment to really appreciate the stunt man and the stunt women
that work on these movies I am a huge advocate to have the academy acknowledge these people that
do such a great job of bringing that's incredible action yes you have to have great actors you have
to have a great director who has luckily has had his hand in doing some stunt work but also just
putting a spotlight on the people that do these scenes I think it gets underappreciated because
we don't always appreciate the Artistry that goes into doing these stunts and when it comes
to the stunts in this film and particularly when we're cutting between the visual effects and the
Practical effects and there's an explosion and this is seamless when people are moving around
there's a lot going on with the action and it is masterful again John Wick has set the tone
for the last 10 years as far as action movies and I think that the distraction again not on
the level John Wick but it's knocking on that damn door so shout out to the stunt men and women that
just brings some incredible action in this film Oscars can we get an academy uh category for the
incredible work especially when it's highlighted so beautiful in movies like this but listen this
film isn't perfect I do have my criticisms and I want to start off talking about there's some
nitpicks number one villain in these movies are pretty stereotypical they're pretty generic and
the villain I will give the film this it tries to give the villain a little bit more backstory
I talked about the personal story with the family element and there is motives for what
the character is doing and also I want to take it back a little bit for a positive and we'll
get to back to my cons I appreciate how simple the stories are because it's not like Tyler rake
has to stop this biological weapon this Warhead that's going to kill everyone in the world no it's
a very personal story which I appreciate but going back to my criticisms the villain has a story bead
and it made sense at the beginning okay you know what he's doing in this film but after
a while it started to get a little bit generic it started to feel a little bit repetitive and
I started to not care about their motives in the film so the villain was just it was okay I will
say that but I will say to the note of the villain because it ties into one of my biggest criticisms
kids in action movies can go one of two ways it can go really good you know they can fit well
into the narrative or it can go really bad like I thought the kid in the first one was pretty solid
and it fit within a narrative and they weren't too annoying there are two kids in this movie because
it's a family that wears extraction from this situation one of the kids is a little girl she's
fine but then there's like a 13 14 year old kid that is uh pretty annoying and at first it made
sense to why the kid was acting the way they're doing like okay I understand I understand the
conflict there that's going on with the kid in the film but then after a while I'm saying to myself
strike one strike two yeah out of here with strike three young man and this kid in a span of like
20 minutes if I was Tyler I'm like dude Deuces I tried my best this kid does not want to be saved
I'm wiping my hands clean and again when you see the film you know what I'm talking about but that
kid was very annoying and it came a little bit at some point you just gotta be like this kid is
gone he's far he's too far gone but again that was something that bothered me but getting to
one of the biggest issues that I have this movie is Joe Russo I'm a big fan of the Russo brothers
and Joe Russo wrote this movie and he also wrote I think he co-wrote the first one and I love the
Russo Brothers again the MCU stuff fantastic and I never really gave them all the credit for what
they did with Winter Soldier Civil War Infinity War you know in game it's a collective effort
but everything outside of the MCU for the Russo Brothers for me has been pretty bad now I had I
like gray man even though that story was a little Bland but I like the gray man but everything else
is very Bland in this movie the screenplay by Joe Russo is extremely generic it is extremely
predictable and it is just quite frankly a very flat surface movie like again I'm not looking
for Shakespeare I'm not looking for world ending events but I just want some more originality I
want some more uniqueness I want some personality in the script and I think that is easily the
weakest element of this film is Joe Russo's script for this movie this was in the trailer this isn't
it first name is Idris and I feel like they were wasted now there is opportunity for more of the
character to do things if they get a sequel but I'm like you got this great actor give them more
to do and then last thing I'll say is I mentioned how awesome that Prison Break scene is and it
is incredible it is very early in the movie and every action scene after that there is an accuracy
I mentioned a weight room that's fantastic and there are Great Moments throughout the film that
has action but it never lived up to that first Prison Break scene which to me you want to do
the reverse you want to build like I mentioned John Wick John Wick does a good job of building
on the action like the next set piece is bigger and more elaborate and more unique and just more
awesome not saying that the film priests is the entertainment Factor but it's not as big bombastic
insane and crazy as that Prison Break as we go on the film it's like y'all did y'all run out of
money did you run out of ideas so again the action throughout is still entertaining it just doesn't
live up to that first action set piece which again for my personal taste it should be the opposite
you should get better as the film goes on so those are my main Pros those are my main cons before I
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all that being said overall to me extraction 2 has to be knocking on the door with John with chapter
four as some of the best action we've seen all year the sequel definitely doubles down on what
worked in the first one while giving us a larger scope with some incredibly brutal action the
prison breakout sequence I can't stress enough is absolutely jaw dropping I love the collaboration
that we're getting with Chris Hemsworth and the director Sam Hargrove they have proven to be a
great Duo it's a shame that this film isn't only presented in a theatrical experience because I
think it deserves that big screen experience as I mentioned I think the biggest issue with this film
is the actual script but at the end of the day I came for extraction to see some great action and
I got that and I'm going to give extraction to a three out of five now personally I think I enjoy
the first one a little bit more I think I gave it like a three and a half out of five and I'm
giving this a three out of five so it's still a good movie man again the action's Great it's just
their story I wish it was a little bit more going on there so with all that being said to answer my
question at the beginning would I like to see a part three hell yes the narrative in action
being on the same page to equal out I'm here for but that's my thought on distraction two give it
a watch on Netflix again I would have loved to have seen us on the big screen and with it being
at home it's going to be available on Netflix and I recommend you all give it a watch and when you
do let me know your thoughts on the film in the comments below what you love would you hate what
was your favorite moment what were some things that didn't work for you all and do you want to
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