2015 · action · thriller · spy
Extraction
Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 32m2015
When a former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists, his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved—so he launches his own rescue operation.
Our read: Extraction (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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