EXTRACTION BANGLA REVIEW. NETFLIX ORIGINAL. BANGLADESH. বাংলা রিভিউ Extraction bengali review

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Honest review of Extraction

As Covid-19 lockdown continues in Bangladesh, every film lovers’ eyes were on Netflix this Friday as they dropped their latest original film Extraction starring Hollywood superstar Chris Hemsworth. The whole country was eagerly waiting for the action-packed film since the Thor famed actor shared images from the shoot on the set of the film on his official Facebook page in November, 2018.

The screenplay was written by Joe Russo, based on the comic book Cuidad by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Fernando Leon Gonzalez, and Eric Skillman.

The film is a co-production between Avengers: Infinity War (2018) directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo’s (commonly known as Russo brothers) independent production company AGBO and Netflix. The lead cast Hemsworth is also one of the producers in the project.

The film was mainly shot in India’s Ahmedabad and Mumbai in November 2018 and some shots were taken in Thailand and Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The film’s production began in Ahmedabad and Mumbai in November 2018.

The plot

Tyler Rake, played by Chris Hemsworth, is a fearless black-market mercenary who is hired to rescue Ovi, played by Rudraksh Jaiswal, the kidnapped son of an imprisoned Indian crime lord. The kidnapping was done by a Dhaka based international drug lord which pushes Tyler into a deadly and almost impossible mission to Dhaka to save Ovi from the drug lord and his massive force of goons and bribed law enforcement members.

The rights

Extraction takes its audience from Dhaka to Mumbai to Australia and back, giving us a picture of the interconnected drug traffic ring in South Asia. The two-hour-long film is dark and raw from start to end and every action film lover’s dream.

Not even a single action sequence of the film was ever exactly shot in Bangladesh except some plate shots for establishment, including the iconic action sequence at Sultana Kamal bridge near Demra.

Chris Hemsworth never set foot in Dhaka yet the audience felt he was blazing his guns around Old Dhaka.

The wrongs

Except for the smartly handled production design choices, action packed fight sequences, and Hemsworth’s Asgardian god like charms nothing else really works in the movie. The screenplay is poorly written and lacks emotion. Though this is a spoiler free review yet there is really nothing more to the story line. The film feels like a two hour long fight sequence with some bandage breaks like a PUBG match on your phone.

We see a Bangladeshi drug lord kidnap an Indian crime lord’s son and Tyler is unleashed to extract him from Dhaka. But why the big names of the subcontinental criminal underworld came to this rivalry, why these desperate measures are unclear.

Another problematic thing is the portrayal of Bangladesh’s law enforcement agencies. Every agency including the police, a fictional force named “Elite” which looked like Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), and even the Bangladeshi military were portrayed to the worldwide audience that they were controlled and bribed by Dhaka based international drug cartels which is fictional but still problematic.

It paints a picture to the world that Dhaka is like Medellin in Colombia during the Pablo Escobar era which is far from true.

The screenplay could have supported some residents or law enforcement officers who were not criminals or involved in drug rings to balance this but every scene of Dhaka felt very wrongly portrayed.