Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Extraction’ combines brutal action with forgettable characters
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/original-content-extraction/
If you think that action movies generally suffer from an excess of characterization, then “Extraction” is the movie for you.
Almost everything about the film that’s not an action scene is dealt with in a perfunctory way, starting from the sketchy characterization of our hero Tyler Rake (played by Chris Hemsworth) — he’s muscular, competent, has a vague tragedy in his past … and that’s about it.