CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Phidippides I have found that a typical formula for successful (i.e. decent to good) action movies involve adding one part mega action star and one part juicy action story involving espionage or military engagement or something similar. "How can it go wrong?" is my thinking. "A mega action star would never agree to this movie if the story is bad." Well, this movie proves my formula is not exactly foolproof. I settled in to watch "Extraction" knowing only that it featured Bruce Willis and possibly that it involved the CIA. By the end of the movie, it's fair to say that this isn't really a Bruce Willis movie at all since he plays second fiddle to actor Kellan Lutz, who plays a character named Harry Turner. Now if someone asked me, "Do you want to watch a Kellan Lutz movie about the CIA?", I might say, "I don't know...it might not be good if a familiar actor isn't the lead." Having watched this movie, my words would be justified. A fundamental clue that it would be poor was in the editing. The producers decided to adopt the kind of accelerated-timeline editing approach which is the death knell for action films. I don't know the motivation for this approach, but it really needs to stop. Nothing says "STOP SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF" as does the speeding up of events to cram as much action as possible into a very small window of time. It makes a story much less believable, it saps characters of development, it can be hard to follow for viewers, and it makes it a challenge for the viewer to care about what is going on. In addition to the editing, the story line itself was rather horrid. The use of cliches has already been commented on, but beyond that it was just boring and lacked credibility. Would a desk-level CIA employee really decide to crack the heads of four other agents because he couldn't go on a rescue mission to help his father? Is one agent still working for the CIA going to feed secret information to that now-rogue CIA employee? I guess they don't really care about job security there. Was there a reason that part of the story takes place in Prague when we only get to see office shots? The list goes on.All of this was aggravated by the ridiculous acting performances we see here. Bruce Willis, should be ashamed of himself. D.B. Sweeney has seen better days. I actually did not mind the performance of Kellan Lutz, but the real sore thumb was the acting of Gina Carano. Before watching "Extraction", I did not know who she was, but she looked vaguely familiar. I eventually realized that her performance was so wooden that she must have received her starring role for some reason other than her acting chops (I suspected she was a singer trying for a move to the movies, but it turns out she's an MMA fighter trying to get into acting). If you don't know what I mean, simply contrast her performance with the animated performance of the actress who played her roommate. Even if you think the roommate's performance was nothing special, it was still noticeably better than Carano's. Overall, there was too much dragging this movie down. A few positives might be found, but not enough to make this movie anything but one to skip.

RetroKing 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 !!!

Uriah43 This movie essentially begins with a veteran CIA field agent by the name of "Leonard Turner" (Bruce Willis) being abducted by terrorists who also manage to seize a valuable piece of computer technology from him in the process. Naturally, considering the impact this package might have on the security of the United States an immediate effort is made to find those responsible and either regain or disable the computer device before it can be used. As it so happens, Leonard has a son named "Harry Turner" (Kellan Lutz) who works as an agent for the CIA as well but because he hasn't been certified as a field agent he is not allowed to become involved in the rescue of his father or the reacquisition of the computer equipment in any manner. Harry, on the other hand, has no interest in sitting on the sidelines and as a result he decides to disobey orders and go it alone. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this has to be one of the most ridiculous films I have seen in a long time as it completely ignores both reality and common sense. Not only that but the film seemed to follow a paint-by-the-numbers approach which further degraded it even more. In short, this wasn't a very good movie and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

didgee7 So bad very bad awful and terrible the other honest reviews said already what a bad bad movie this is cashing in on Bruce Willis name...but I had to say it too how bad this movie is terrible awful absolutely lame and boring and couldn't watch it of course only the first 20 minutes or so then I had to write this.and of course 10 lines of text is a joke mister IMDb I do not get why you have to want ten lines when sometimes you can say everything with just a couple of words and ten lines is so much extra waste of time for this wanna be movie. but it does need to be said so there are no misunderstanding this wanna be action jackass movie should not be qualified to call movie