Review: Chris Hemsworth shows his dramatic acting chops in Extraction

Enlarge / Chris Hemsworth plays a ruthless mercenary whose latest mission calls for rescuing a drug lord's kidnapped son from Bangladesh. (credit: Netflix)

Chris Hemsworth gets a chance to stretch his acting chops as a hardened mercenary hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a crime lord in Mumbai, India, in Extraction, a new original action thriller from Netflix. The film is produced by the Russo Brothers (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: End Game), which is probably how the film snagged Thor himself as the star. (We can probably thank Netflix for the cameo by David Harbour, of Stranger Things.)

(Some spoilers below, but no major reveals.)

Joe Russo penned the script, and the duo tapped stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave to make his directorial debut. Hargrave's stunt work has been featured in several MCU films (Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok, for example), as well as The Hunger Games franchise and Atomic Blonde.

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