Extraction 2

***Extraction 2*** (stylised on-screen as ***Extraction II***) is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Sam Hargrave and written by Joe Russo, based on the graphic novel *Ciudad* by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Fernando León González, and Eric Skillman. A sequel to the 2020 film *Extraction*, it stars Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani and Adam Bessa, reprising their roles from the first film, along with Tornike Gogrichiani, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Daniel Bernhardt, Olga Kurylenko and Idris Elba joining the cast. In the film, Tyler Rake (Hemsworth) is initially hired to rescue the family of an abusive crime lord from a Georgian prison.

Following the successful debut of the first film, Netflix announced a sequel in May 2020 with Joe Russo returning to write, Hargrave returning to direct and Hemsworth returning in the lead. By December, Joe and his brother Anthony hoped that the sequel would develop the characters enough to start a cinematic universe. Filming was scheduled to begin in Sydney in September 2021, but was delayed by the COVID-19 Pandemic and eventually started in Prague in November, before concluding in Vienna on April 2022. In addition to the returns of the Russos, Hargrave and Hemsworth, Henry Jackman and Alex Belcher returned to compose the score.

*Extraction 2* was released by Netflix on 16 June 2023 and received generally positive reviews from critics.

## Plot

9 months after barely surviving a previous mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tyler Rake retires from mercenary work to a cabin in Austria to recuperate. There, he is approached by a stranger and asked to rescue Ketevan, the sister of his ex-wife Mia, and her two children, Sandro and Nina, from Georgia. Ketevan married Davit Radiani, one of the co-founders of the Nagazi, the largest crime syndicate in Georgia. After Davit threw a DEA agent off a bridge, he was imprisoned and unable to bribe his way out due to the pressure from the Americans. Davit forces Ketevan and her children to move into the prison to keep them from leaving him, but the bad living conditions and Davit's abuse cause Ketevan to call Mia for help.

Meanwhile, a governor on his payroll informs Davit's brother Zurab that Davit's sentence is extended by ten years. Zurab asks the governor to release his brother, but the governor refuses since he does not want the Americans to go after him. Enraged, Zurab kills the governor and his bodyguards. Tyler recruits Nik and her brother Yaz to join him, and they infiltrate the prison with help from a bribed guard. Davit alerts the prisoners, who start a riot. During the extraction, Davit attacks Tyler and Ketevan, resulting in Tyler killing him. Tyler and Ketevan fight their way through the riot but manage to board an armored train. After fighting off Nagazi forces and corrupt soldiers, they get to a plane and escape to Vienna, but Sandro, who idolizes his father, secretly contacts his uncle and reveals their location. Ketevan tells Nik that Tyler was her brother-in-law. Zurab and his men find and attack Tyler and his team in their DC Towers safehouse in Vienna. Ketevan scolds her son for endangering his own family and naivete. In the chaos, Sandro abandons his mother and joins Zurab.

The team flees in one of Zurab's helicopters, but Zurab mortally wounds Yaz. The team retreat to Tyler's cabin, where he and Ketevan are reunited with Mia. Tyler apologizes to Mia for leaving on a mission before their son died from cancer, regretful that the last memory he had was Tyler leaving him. Avtandil, Zurab's right-hand man and uncle, discourages Zurab from seeking revenge to prevent more losses and to set a better example for his nephew. Refusing, Zurab kills Avtandil and contacts Tyler, telling him to meet at a nearby airfield next to a church. Tyler heads to the airfield but, unwilling to risk losing her, leaves Nik behind. Tyler kills the remaining Nagazi and finds Zurab and Sandro in the church, with Sandro wearing an explosive vest. Zurab forces Sandro to take Tyler's pistol, but Sandro, having realized his mistake and what kind of people his father and uncle really are, refuses to shoot Tyler. Nik arrives and disarms the vest, while Tyler fights and kills Zurab. Tyler and Nik are left wounded as police storm the church.

In the aftermath, Nik and Tyler are imprisoned and Mia informs Tyler that Ketevan and her children have been moved to protective custody, but their assets have been frozen. Tyler tells her to give them $1 million cash, which he had hidden under the floorboards in his cabin. She assures Tyler that their son died believing his father was a hero. Tyler is taken out of prison to meet with the stranger from the beginning, who has come with another job, in return for Tyler's freedom. Tyler says he will not accept it without Nik, only to find that the stranger has brought Nik as well, as the film concludes.