Undescribable Perfection

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Bruce Willis got top billing in this film and is all over the film poster, but in classic low budget movie bait-and-switch, Willis filmed all his scenes in one day and is hardly in the film. The story involves Willis as a CIA operative who's kidnapped within the first few minutes of the film and it's then up to his son, Kellan Lutz, and real-life MMA champion Gina Carano to rescue him. When ends up happening is a series of fight scenes that are actually pretty good (not quite John Wick great, but certainly better than average), although I was disappointed that Carano did not have all that many standout fight scenes. She was amazing in Steven Soderberg's "Haywire" and I'm still waiting to see her in an equally worthy of film since then. Overall, this low budget action film does feature some decent fight sequences that make it worth watching, but the film's overall low production value and rather thin story do make it pretty obvious to audiences that this is not a something of "Die Hard" or "Haywire" of quality. And D.B. Sweeney looks as if he too may have filmed all of his scenes in one day as well.

B-class movie, B-class acting, B-class direction. And B-ruce Willis.

Over a year and a half ago, I reviewed a Bruce Willis movie called Vice. Okay, it was less of a review and more of an annihilation. I not only said that it was the worst film of 2015, which earned that distinction in only the third week of the year, but I also called it the worst film of the 2010s thus far. I also said that it would be impossible for anyone to take that title of "the worst film of 2015" away from it. While no movie did that, despite Fantastic Four's valiant effort, at the end of the year, another Bruce Willis movie came out in the action thriller genre that also got a VOD release called Extraction. If you read my Vice review, one of my most mind-boggling discoveries that I brought up was how that movie had a 0% Tomatometer score and a 0% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of its release. Well, I am blown away by the fact that this ALSO got a 0% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes. And while Vice's Tomatometer score had gone up to 4% in the months that followed, this movie's Tomatometer score actually held up at the time that I'm giving it its own review.Now, in my opinion, this is a better movie than Vice. But that's the only good news I have, because it's another Bruce Willis movie in the action thriller genre that only got a VOD release playing to the top-name actor's pedestrian-level abilities. I wish it were easy to leave it at that, but really, even this autopilot action thriller has a lot of baffling moments. From the dialogue to the acting, to the terrible effects, to the "Bingo"-level editing job, to the sexist behavior, to quite possibly one of the worst twists in film history, it's quite bizarre. And even by the standards of the action thriller formula, or even the Bruce Willis formula, it's quite unpleasant.Score: 8/100 Recommendation: None

As an avid action movie fan I hoped for an evening of mindless explosions, sarcastic humour while watching a now familiar story line, what a disappointment. Being a Die Hard fan, Tears of the Sun and seeing Bruce Willis in the main cast I was hoping to see some RED action with a good female sub-lead in the ranks. This movie is a disgrace to the year 2015. The script was bad, non- existent even,the directing even worse. So many mistakes made in the scenes and the main actor is demeaned to a man that is told what to do by his dad or others in the scene. This takes away so much from Kellan Lutz's normal I can do it myself attitude. With Gina Carano in the cast I was waiting for some Deadpool kick-ass action but was left with a "what the hell happened to Cynthia Rothrock" feeling. All the actors were dealt a raw deal with this movie, why they took it I don't know. Why their PR allowed it is another question? I still want to see Kellan Lutz in a more brainy role, which I think can be pulled off if you look at real life and what he stands for. Bruce Willis will always be a favorite but maybe it is time to retire and leave the CIA roles to the new guys, how about RED 3? Gina Carano, I am all for tough chick action, hopefully she will get a better chance in the Mutant, Superhero genre seeing low-budget movies use her as a prop for a bad script wanting to have some female blood to mix it up - mega fail in this movie. All in all this is a NO, put it back, don't waste your money. I will rather watch Kung Fu Panda 3 with my son than go through this again.