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It's basically a videogame

posted a year ago by Painter (38)
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Extraction II it's a fun movie, absolutely worth the time spent watching it, with very little progressive stuff (Nik is the usual badass woman that can beat men twice her size, but it's OK if not exceedingly overdone).

But basically it's a videogame. The constant action and the continuous change of scenarios are definitely the staples of an action game. And it would've made for a great and highly enjoyable one.

I kept getting Uncharted 2 vibes (the mini bosses, the military guys with tons of RPG, the big guy with the machine gun etc.) and sadly this is how the Uncharted movie should've been.

Probably Extraction was better: a little more realistic and gritty, but this one ia a hell of a ride and left me wanting for a new chapter.

[–] sonans (1568) a year ago

You are talking John Wick, not Extraction.

[–] bozo_500 (13151) a year ago

i saw a quick clip on twitter of Hemsworth on a boat shooting a helicopter with a M60. looked just like a video game.. CG muzzle flashs, that greyish video game look, the chopper obviously CGI

i thought back to T2 with Sarah Conner in the SWAT van shooting the chopper and how real that looked in comparison

[–] Kendricks (2239) a year ago

In T2 it looked real, because it was. They actually had a helicopter fly after that van, the rest is practical and CGI effects but still, it's actually happening and looks amazing while also being believable.

The shit we get spoon fed in Extraction II, in comparison, is just insulting the viewer.

[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1962) a year ago

"(Nik is the usual badass woman that can beat men twice her size, but it's OK if not exceedingly overdone)."

This is real eyeroll shit now. It is so common and so taken for granted that the next real "good" action film will have to establish right at the start of the "badass woman vs. whatever" scene that she can't just physically overpower men twice her mass and has to use cunning and agility instead.

[–] Kendricks (2239) a year ago

Which is what Nik did, though, that's what you're saying, right?

I am the first to cringe when some 50kg lady "fights" a trained 100kg special operator, because the usual ordeal is that she will, somehow, throw the dude around and beat him up like nothing, because "Petite 50kg Scarlet Johannson is strong too!".
Here however, Nik did indeed use certain fighting styles and techniques to compensate for her inferior physique. The fight scene in the train for example, where she killed the guys with many small cuts and stabs over brute force moves she just couldn't pull off. I appreciated the attempt to make it at least more believable.

These days, we have to endure this of course in every single one of these movies, gotta keep spreading "the message", but I gotta say if so, then at least this way because that definitely helped my suspension of disbelief.