Having barely survived the adventures of the first film, solider for-hire Tyler Rake returns for "Extraction 2." Played again by Chris Hemsworth, Rake is recovering in a remote cabin in Austria when he is visited by a mysterious handler (Idris Elba) and charged with rescuing the wife and two children of a Georgian gangster held in a ruthless prison.
Soon Rake has reassembled his team, the brother-sister duo of Nik and Yaz (Golshifteh Farahani and Adam Bessa), who spend their downtime looking chic in a suite situated on the Amalfi Coast. (Where's their movie?) From there the film is a headlong rush of action, occasionally pausing for needless dramatic scenes.
Directed again by Sam Hargrave from a screenplay credited to Joe Russo (also a producer with his brother Anthony), the new film sketches some of the details of Rake's life before the first film, a tired reliance on backstory to essentially fill space. The family connections drawn by the story — Rake's ex-wife Mia (Olga Kurylenko) has also hired him to save her sister Ketevan (Tinatin Dalakishvili) — start to unravel pretty quickly if you stop to think about them, so it is best to just keep moving along, as the movie does.
