Only 21 minutes of Extraction 2 on Netflix are worth it, but they’re really worth it

Most of the time I don’t watch action movies for the plot. Much more important are successful stunt and fight choreographies, which also send adrenaline rushing through your body on the sofa. John Wick: Chapter 4 has recently shown how fantastically entertaining such a genre film can be if it just jumps creatively enough from one unusual place of confrontation to the next.

When I first started Tyler Rake: Extraction 2, I didn’t have John Wick-high expectations. After all, Sam Hargraves’ Tyler Rake: Extraction was only mediocre for me. That was also confirmed for part 2. But there are these in the sequel 21 breathless minutes action fans should see.

The plot of Tyler Rake 2 is completely irrelevant

I don’t care how many kids Tyler Rake saves this time. I actually don’t even care that Chris Hemsworth’s mercenary survived his death at the end of Part 1. That’s what his Netflix character has despite Thor fame and muscle war victories not enough profile as an action hero. He corresponds too much to the cliché of the taciturn killer with a heart who fights his past with fists and guns. As a characterless character, he is only undercut by his interchangeable opponents.

However, the first Extraction film three years ago had already impressed with a seemingly seamless 12-minute action scene. And the sequel had announced that with a rapid 21-minute sequence with hidden cuts still to be topped.

And, dammit, you can get me with that. This breathless presence in a plan sequence, in 1917 and many other films without cuts, the rug was pulled from under my feet in the best sense of the word. And with Tyler Rake, we’re not talking about an uneventful, slow-moving scene, but about an escape and chase that has rags flying.

This is the best action scene in Netflix’s Tyler Rake: Extraction 2

For some reason, Tyler Rake must rescue a family from a Georgia prison. The context is unimportant. But although the intrusion into the security wing runs smoothly at first, of course something goes wrong in the end. And then all that’s left for Chris Hemsworth’s character is shoot, fight and run. Welcome to Netflix’s 21-minute platformer adventure in Extraction 2. You’ll find it between minutes 26:18 and 41:20.

Without cuts, it first goes through narrow barred corridors and then out into the courtyard of the prison, where a battle is raging. Between inmates and guards? Who’s targeting Tyler Rake and his freed victims again? Anyway, go on. All that matters is that Chris Hemsworth is the prison scene as “The hardest thing I’ve ever done”, designated. And that we see that.

Still without cuts, the perspective changes in the subsequent one car chase dramatically from the driver’s cabin through the window into the drone view and back again. I have a moment to think how on earth they shot that when we were glued to the bumper of an exploding car and then we were already crammed into the backseat of the pursued. But there is no time to think, and that’s a good thing.

Because just when I think that the hunt at Netflix is ​​now coming to a standstill, the characters find themselves – still without a recognizable cut since the escape began – on one moving train again! And Chris Hemsworth fires at a passing helicopter! Which shortly afterwards goes up in an explosion!

21 minutes is enough to create anticipation for Extraction 3

In principle, there are three scenes that Sam Hargrave strings together in Extraction 2 as an action sprint. But the staging as an apparent plan sequence accelerates your own heart rate so reliably that the wild ride can be enjoyed exactly for what it is: pure action without ulterior motives.

It’s in those moments that the Tyler Rake sequel is at its best: entertainment condensed into an adrenaline rush. Because, as I said, I don’t watch action films for the plot.

For a similarly fast-paced scene, I would tune in again in the previously announced Tyler Rake: Extraction 3.

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