Excellent cinematography!
The director Sam Hargrave is also a stuntman in many movies and it shows.
shareI agree. The prison escape scene was the most chaotic fight scene I have ever watched. The idea of fighting while your arm is on fire and using that as a weapon was a very creative idea in an action genre where new ideas are nearly exhausted. Camera work in that scene was incredible. I also thought it was very true to the character that Tyler tried not shoot the prisoners who did not have guns but it slowly evolved into a free for all and he had to start shooting, first into the legs and then ultimately wherever he could land a bullet. It was interesting to see this nuance
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I think... it reeks of desperation rather than great creativity.
When you don't have a good plot and the action has been seen by everyone way too many times, you start coming up with 'creative' action - over the top, unrealistic, etc. This is how F&F series got to where it is now - though, granted, it took a long while to get to where it is now, while Extraction is moving in that direction at a much faster pace.
I agree with him that the action in Extraction 2 was very creative, but the scene that really sold me on that was not the prison scene but the scene where Chris Hemsworth's character was sliding down the glass roof and shot the roof out to make it so that he and his Indian girlfriend would have a handhold to grab onto. That was pretty creative and slick, in my opinion.
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