Extraction [Blu-ray + Digital HD]

pretty good, with Kellan Lutz playing Bruce's son who's determined to go find his kidnapped father!! B RP

We watched this primarily due to Bruce Willis being in it but as many of the the films he has starred in recent years, he is not in it very much of the time. The film is still a decent action film and since it is currently included with our Prime subscription we felt it was good enough to rate 4 stars but only barely.If you like action films with a side of Bruce Willis thrown in, definitely give it a watch.

Great

Here’s the story synopsis:When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis), his son Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz), a government analyst who has been repeatedly turned down for field service, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test in a high stakes mission to find his father and to stop a terrorist plot.The Premise is GoodI won’t lie, the family rescue premise is a good one. Some great families have had excellent action movies. For example, A Good Day to Die Hard ($304 million) and Spy Kids ($147 million). Both solid performing box office hits. Extraction didn’t even bring in 1 million.No, that isn’t a typo.This movie didn’t even clear $1 million.Tell me how you can afford Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz, and Gina Carano on that kind of budget? And speaking of budget, it has not been disclosed. You can search the world wide web but nobody will tell you how much this bomb cost.They’re probably too ashamed.I’d be ashamed too.You know who else should be ashamed? The Writers (Max Adams, Umair Aleem) and the Stunt Coordinator (Simon Rhee).Reason #1 for Shaming: Rip OffsThe story opens with Bruce Willis being held hostage. I, like everyone else who has come to expect a certain degree of badassery from Bruno, thought “Oh, great! Kick ass in the first scene! There’s a hook.”Well, it would have been.If it weren’t a ripoff straight out of John Wick. Here’s the thing – John Wick was such a well-written movie that they didn’t even have to show him killing three men in a bar with a pencil for viewers to really grasp the level of badassery present. Do yourself a favor and see John Wick instead of Extraction.You can’t tell me the three years of age difference between Bruce Willis and Keanu Reeves is the faulty factor here. Bruce still has the chops for action. The problem is the writers wrote a hack scene and the stunt coordinator phoned it in.Reason #2 for Shaming: Kellan Lutz is Too Pretty to FightNow let’s talk about Kellan Lutz. He is an Expendable but the bulk of his action is on a motorcycle, with a helmet on, and a stunt man driving. He’s window dressing. Sure, he’s buff and he compares a bathroom fight scene in extraction to a similar scene in a Bourne movie (another ripoff) but I’m here to tell you – Jason Bourne he ain’t! Again, I blame the stunt coordinator. Fight scenes are a dance. If you can learn to dance, you can fight for a camera. Simon Rhee may be a great stunt man, but he sucks at choreography.Reason #3 for Shaming: Gina Carano Isn’t Allowed to Fight“But what about Gina Carano?” You may ask, and you’d be right to.She’s not just window dressing, she’s a certified badass with MMA wins to prove it. She can fight. You know who else can fight? Michelle Rodriguez. They had a great fight in Fast & Furious 6. Gina did not have a good fight in Extraction. She had a couple opportunities, but the writers and director squandered them and made her a sissy. Any movie that makes Gina Carano a sissy is WRONG.Reason #4 for Shaming: The CIA Hit Ordered on Harry as Soon as He LeftSure, Harry goes off the reservation to save his dad and his ex girlfriend decides to go off the reservation to help him, but the CIA doesn’t waste millions of dollars training badasses just to put a bullet in their head as soon as they stray from their original orders.And apparently Harry’s boss had no idea he was a badass.I have to call “Bull*hit” on these two points.So there’s a whole lot of shame wrapped up in those 82 minutes of your life that you will neither enjoy or get back. Not to mention the cost of the rental. If you ask me, they should be paying people to watch this instead of getting paid.This Movie is a MysteryI know. It says it’s an action/thriller, but I found it a mystery.Why?Exactly.Why would Bruce Willis, the patron saint of Christmas explosions, agree to be in a lousy movie written by a B-list horror movie writer with no street cred? Sure, Carano and Lutz would sign on to an action/thriller with Bruce Willis. Who wouldn’t? But Bruce let them down.I suspect that the young hotshot agent at William Morris was desperate to make this movie because the writer had gone all Kathy Bates and held his mother in a quiet little house on a sleepy, snow-covered road in Podunk, Maine, threatening to break her feet with a sledgehammer. I suspect this young hotshot found a way to compromise Bruce Willis’ agent there at William Morris and they made Bruno get on board. Sure, he might have balked at first, but maybe he had a gambling debt with a certain shylock who was growing very anxious for Bruce to pay up so he got the agency to pay his debt, spare his pinkie fingers from big knives, and all he had to do was spend six weeks on a movie.Then they brought on Carano in hopes she’d get some Fast & Furious audience to crossover and Lutz for the Expendables crossover audience.On paper, it all looks good –My recommendation: Put a 500-foot cordon around this movie and don’t ever touch it.

I got this from the list below Precious Cargo. Which is also Bruce with action and violence. I like the shooting. I like the punching and kicking. I like the pursuit scenes. I like the explosions. I guess it is good that I couldn't determine who the villains are because I involve other processes beside enjoying the gratuitous violence.

I loved it just wished for more extra features, and that what extra they had where CC.

WITH A FEW DECADES BEHIND HIM, BRUCE WILLIS HAS BECOME AN ACTOR OF SUBSTANCE AND SUBTLETY. NO SPOILERS, BUT THE ACTION INVOLVES THE CIA, ROUGE ELEMENTS IN SOCIETY AND A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF SUSPENSE AND EXCITEMENT.I ENJOYED THIS FAST, EXOTICALLY FILMED THRILLER, AS IT IS SET AROUND THE WORLD IN LUCIOUS COLOR AND HD CLARITY.REALLY, NOT JUST ANOTHER DIE HARD, BUT A MOVIE WITH DECENT GRAVITAS.

Movie was of good quality

Bruce Willis was clerly given a bit part in this movie in order to give the cover some suggestion of credibility with him front and centre on the picture. Right on the edge of deliberately misleading, in fact it crossed the line. Actually, it crossed the line and the line wis just a blur in the rear view mirror (The line was STILL more visible and more interesting than Bruce Willis). Not clever, funny, action packed, well acted or even slightly interesting. I didn't even have the cheek to give it to the charity shop where it could just annoy and mislead someone else. It's in the bin where it deserves to be.

Last time that was said Dentist Extraction.. Christ spot on film.. Action packed story "enjoyed watching less pork scratchings in this film.. Which means its five star. Recommended 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎥🐷🎁☔🎅👁️Champagne Thursday

The action is bloody, visceral and frantic with some brilliant practical effects and choreography and the cast give good performances.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen from Bruce Willis. I was so disappointed! The other two actors are so bad that I thought where did they get these two from. The woman is just wrong for the part and I found her acting (if you can call it that) completely unconvincing! And the plot! What plot!

Good watchable Bruce Willis film plenty of action with some twists and turns, enjoyable watch.