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Review: Extraction (2020)

Shawn and I are going to have a detailed discussion about the latest Netflix original, Extraction, on Friday's show, but I felt compelled to say a few words here for posterity sake. Don't forget to tune in Friday at 6:05 p.m., only on Radio NL 610 AM Kamloops, by the way... If you're looking for a pure action movie, one with just enough story, emotion and character development to carry an hour and 50 minute flick, this is the action movie for you. This film is 75 per cent balls-to-the-wall gunfights, shootouts, knife fights and fisticuffs. It's an adrenalin rush through and through. Wow! The highlight: a 12-minute sequence edited to look like one continuous shot, and you can't take your eyes off it. Everything you'd want from an action movie -- never mind an action sequence -- is in this one, brilliant bit of filmmaking. Kudos to director Sam Hargrave. Extraction is his first feature, and he nailed it. Granted, he cut his teeth as a stuntman and stunt ...