Inevitably, eagle-eyed viewers will find the seams in the most eye-popping sequence of Sam Hargrave’s feature directorial debut, “Extraction”: a long-form “one-shot” that clocks in at over 12 minutes, long enough to include a car chase, a foot chase, another car chase, gun battles, knife battles, hand-to-hand combat, and plenty of explosions.
And that’s just fine by the Marvel stunt coordinator turned director, because knowing how it all came together doesn’t diminish its power.The film is filled with the kind of physical feats worthy of one of the industry’s most well-known stuntmen and coordinators, but nothing is as impressive as the “single take” that arrives at the tail end of the action outing’s first act.
The film follows fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe alum Chris Hemsworth as black market mercenary Tyler Rake, tapped with “extracting” the kidnapped teen son of a high-powered drug lord (Rudhraksh Jaiswal
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