Extraction (2015)

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Bruce Willis got top billing in this film and is all over the film poster, but in classic low budget movie bait-and-switch, Willis filmed all his scenes in one day and is hardly in the film. The story involves Willis as a CIA operative who's kidnapped within the first few minutes of the film and it's then up to his son, Kellan Lutz, and real-life MMA champion Gina Carano to rescue him. When ends up happening is a series of fight scenes that are actually pretty good (not quite John Wick great, but certainly better than average), although I was disappointed that Carano did not have all that many standout fight scenes. She was amazing in Steven Soderberg's "Haywire" and I'm still waiting to see her in an equally worthy of film since then. Overall, this low budget action film does feature some decent fight sequences that make it worth watching, but the film's overall low production value and rather thin story do make it pretty obvious to audiences that this is not a something of "Die Hard" or "Haywire" of quality. And D.B. Sweeney looks as if he too may have filmed all of his scenes in one day as well.

This could have been a good movie, unfortunately the director sucked. He didn't have a clue and that's too bad

EXTRACTION is an acceptable B-movie thriller with a lead role for THE EXPENDABLES 3 actor Kellan Lutz and a guest part for Bruce Willis. They play father-and-son agents who are left grieving when Willis' wife is murdered by gangsters. Ten years later, a valuable hacking device is stolen and Willis kidnapped, forcing his son to go into action to rescue him. This is a simple and low budget tale that's well directed by Steven C. Miller, the man behind THE AGGRESSION SCALE. Willis doesn't get much screen time and seems a bit bored by it all but Lutz makes an effort and seems to have grown as an actor since the last time I saw him. The story is nothing special and features a few twists along the way. Gina Carano shows up as Lutz's ex and turns out to be a major ally, but her acting abilities are really limited here and I felt embarrassed by her attempts at humour. Still, the film does get by on a series of crunchy, well-choreographed fight scenes which feel inspired by BOURNE. The best is the bathroom fight against the assassin which is really neatly done.

On of best, unfortunately on of to many movies, to see how to fail lowest than ever can imagine ! Does Bruce Willis need that craps of ? (can't call it movies - this is worst garbage of all that what camera can take !) - Does he need more money ? Why such ex Star make movies like this ? Hard or impossible to understand ! Large shame of some days great actor ! unhappiness, sorrow, dejection, depression, misery, despondency, despair, desolation, wretchedness, gloom, gloominess, dolefulness, melancholy, mournfulness, woe, heartache, grief, the blues Sorrow !!!