I understand Extraction is a fiction and the genre is violent action with superhuman like protagonists. A handful lead actors can easily wreak havoc on an army trained professionals and literally send them to oblivion. But we are not talking about Avengers or Thor here.
It becomes a problem when a production like this creates an allusion that the story setting and production design of the movie is 'the' true presentation of a real country, and it's capital, people and armed forces. Especially, if that country is the main setting of major Hollywood production for the first time ever.
The production team might have taken some 'plateshots' of some filthy, dingy, overcrowded outskirts of the capital city of the story, which is fine, but that seemed to be the only thing to say about the city. The real nicer locations (not some artificial set) and millions of well educated middle class residents of the same city are totally missing. This is wrong, in my opinion.
The law enforcement agencies as a whole have been portrayed as utterly corrupt and incompetent. Almost every single members of the force seemed to be chasing Chris Hemsworth and his band of hired guns like spellbound insects heading to light traps to meet their brutal ends. Explosions, gun fires, car crashes all happening nonstop in overcrowded and narrow suburban streets with complete disregard to many many innocent lives to save only the life of a kidnapped son of a drug lord. And this is somehow a redemption for the protagonist that audience should empathise with or even deem heroic!
It is very unfortunate to see how a respectable movie personality like Chris Hemsworth may have tarnished the image of a country (he most likely has never visited) and its people in the name of fiction and entertainment.
It becomes a problem when a production like this creates an allusion that the story setting and production design of the movie is 'the' true presentation of a real country, and it's capital, people and armed forces. Especially, if that country is the main setting of major Hollywood production for the first time ever.
The production team might have taken some 'plateshots' of some filthy, dingy, overcrowded outskirts of the capital city of the story, which is fine, but that seemed to be the only thing to say about the city. The real nicer locations (not some artificial set) and millions of well educated middle class residents of the same city are totally missing. This is wrong, in my opinion.
The law enforcement agencies as a whole have been portrayed as utterly corrupt and incompetent. Almost every single members of the force seemed to be chasing Chris Hemsworth and his band of hired guns like spellbound insects heading to light traps to meet their brutal ends. Explosions, gun fires, car crashes all happening nonstop in overcrowded and narrow suburban streets with complete disregard to many many innocent lives to save only the life of a kidnapped son of a drug lord. And this is somehow a redemption for the protagonist that audience should empathise with or even deem heroic!
It is very unfortunate to see how a respectable movie personality like Chris Hemsworth may have tarnished the image of a country (he most likely has never visited) and its people in the name of fiction and entertainment.