An Indian drug lord's son (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) is kidnapped by a Bangladeshi drug lord (Priyanshu Painyuli). Borderline suicidal Australian mercenary Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is hired to "extract" the boy. Mayhem, bloodshed, and betrayal follow. The kid seems nice, but even if the extraction wasn't a double-cross, you're doing a drug lord a favour. And this movie is grim from beginning to end: it has zero sense of humour. You'd think that might be because it was trying to be realistic, but you'd be wrong: our lead good guy is a fucking superhero, hammered with abuse but keeps going like ... well, Thor, who Hemsworth plays in another franchise also led by the Russo Brothers.

The movie was directed by Sam Hargrave. The action scenes are endless, but aside from there being too much, they were effective. The writing and production are from Joe and Anthony Russo, the team that brought us the Marvel's "Avengers" series of movies. This is based on a graphic novel the Russos also had a hand in. Chris Hemsworth was also a producer. The acting is reasonably good for an all-out action movie.

I found this movie a miserable experience. Fun action movies the viewer wants to revisit. This ain't that. Good drama movies take you through an elegant story, teach you something. This ain't that either. This is just a punishing slog of brutality. Which Netflix viewers loved. According to Wikipedia, it "became the most-watched original film in Netflix's history, with over 99 million viewers during the first four weeks."

SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you plan to see the movie, etc. There's a sequel. Which also stars Hemsworth as Tyler Rake. Which negates the emotional and physical sacrifice he made in this movie, in which he DIED at the end. Or at least he should have died: he had multiple critical injuries, the last of which was a bullet shot through the neck. Followed by a fall off a bridge into what's probably among the world's most polluted rivers. Survival was only possible because of the financial pressures of sequelitis.