Extraction
December. 18,2015 RWhen a former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists, his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved—so he launches his own rescue operation.
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Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis) is a crusty old CIA agent who may or may not be retired. He is kidnapped in Newark, along with the Condor, a device that can hack everything. Harry (Kellan Lutz) also works for the company as a desk agent in Prague. Harry had been working on the Condor, but his boss wants him home. Harry goes rogue to save his dad and the world. He teams up with his old girlfriend (Gina Carano) in New JerseyThe film was actually filmed in Alabama, except for the flyover which was Pittsburgh. There was a lot of hand to hand fighting with cliche scenes starting with the opener as Leonard is tied up and given a pen. Who didn't see that coming? The fight scenes were so-so and Gina Carano was unconvincing. The whole plot seemed weak.Not the best Bruce Willis film out there, but better than that one where he dies early and his son has to use his cell phone (The Cold Light of Day). Guide: F-bomb. Brief stripper nudity
I have found that a typical formula for successful (i.e. decent to good) action movies involve adding one part mega action star and one part juicy action story involving espionage or military engagement or something similar. "How can it go wrong?" is my thinking. "A mega action star would never agree to this movie if the story is bad." Well, this movie proves my formula is not exactly foolproof. I settled in to watch "Extraction" knowing only that it featured Bruce Willis and possibly that it involved the CIA. By the end of the movie, it's fair to say that this isn't really a Bruce Willis movie at all since he plays second fiddle to actor Kellan Lutz, who plays a character named Harry Turner. Now if someone asked me, "Do you want to watch a Kellan Lutz movie about the CIA?", I might say, "I don't know...it might not be good if a familiar actor isn't the lead." Having watched this movie, my words would be justified. A fundamental clue that it would be poor was in the editing. The producers decided to adopt the kind of accelerated-timeline editing approach which is the death knell for action films. I don't know the motivation for this approach, but it really needs to stop. Nothing says "STOP SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF" as does the speeding up of events to cram as much action as possible into a very small window of time. It makes a story much less believable, it saps characters of development, it can be hard to follow for viewers, and it makes it a challenge for the viewer to care about what is going on. In addition to the editing, the story line itself was rather horrid. The use of cliches has already been commented on, but beyond that it was just boring and lacked credibility. Would a desk-level CIA employee really decide to crack the heads of four other agents because he couldn't go on a rescue mission to help his father? Is one agent still working for the CIA going to feed secret information to that now-rogue CIA employee? I guess they don't really care about job security there. Was there a reason that part of the story takes place in Prague when we only get to see office shots? The list goes on.All of this was aggravated by the ridiculous acting performances we see here. Bruce Willis, should be ashamed of himself. D.B. Sweeney has seen better days. I actually did not mind the performance of Kellan Lutz, but the real sore thumb was the acting of Gina Carano. Before watching "Extraction", I did not know who she was, but she looked vaguely familiar. I eventually realized that her performance was so wooden that she must have received her starring role for some reason other than her acting chops (I suspected she was a singer trying for a move to the movies, but it turns out she's an MMA fighter trying to get into acting). If you don't know what I mean, simply contrast her performance with the animated performance of the actress who played her roommate. Even if you think the roommate's performance was nothing special, it was still noticeably better than Carano's. Overall, there was too much dragging this movie down. A few positives might be found, but not enough to make this movie anything but one to skip.
Actually it is technically not a Willis movie as he just plays a supporting part. Still, it is a waste of his time and tarnishes his image. The movie is a sub C made-for-TV kind of junkie movie. Poor Writing, dialog, fight scenes, car chases, consistent logic of story are not made up for by quality actors. The hurky jerky camera work is sickening, literally. The nonsense story of a supposedly talented agent going off with no plan along with a goofy destroy the world device makes this lower than it should be. It could have been a passable B movie. Car chase scene where the cars just drive around until the bad guy just stops to be hit by the hero. Unbelievable, literally. The lead makes so many stupid judgments and decisions it could almost be a parody.I gave it a 2 because I pity the good actors. He never thinks ahead nor has a plan in the entire movie. How can he be such a good agent being kept from real work by his dad? Way too emotional and the stupid kind of stubbornness.
Dismal thriller with Bruce Willis making another one of his $1 Million a day appearance as CIA agent who wife was blown away by some European baddies some years back and his teenage son threatened.Ten years later Willis is held hostage and his son, now a desk bound CIA agent defies orders and sets out to rescue him with the help of fellow agent and ex girlfriend, Gina Carano.The film looks cheap in the opening sequences with too much bright light, the script is full of clichés, the action scenes are uninspired, I actually felt they wasted Carano's talents for the action sequences.There is a family best friend who we can guess early on has obscure motives and of course given his fee, Willis is used sparingly throughout the movie.