Extraction 3 (2025)

Extraction 3 (2025) thrusts Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) into a mission more personal and perilous than ever before. After barely surviving the chaos of Extraction 2, Rake has been laying low, still haunted by the lives he couldn't save. But when his handler Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) uncovers the abduction of his former close friend Ovi’s son by a ruthless Southeast Asian crime syndicate, Rake can't resist returning to the fray.

This time, the mission begins in the teeming streets of Bangkok. Rake assembles a small, improvised team: Aliya (newcomer powerhouse Adria Arjona), a brilliant former intelligence operative with a vendetta of her own, and Samir, a local fixer with personal ties to the syndicate. As they chase leads across neon-lit entanglement—the night markets, dingy safehouses, and skyscraper complexes—they confront an enemy network more pervasive and technologically advanced than before.

While the heart of the film delivers Extraction’s signature adrenaline-fueled set pieces, Extraction 3 also explores Rake’s inner world. Haunted flashbacks to his old squad and memories of fragile peace punctuate the relentless action. The turning point arrives when Aliya and Rake share a quiet moment overlooking the Chao Phraya River—she reveals that her entire family was destroyed by the same syndicate, tying their fates together and deepening the emotional stakes.

The action escalates dramatically in a mid-film skyscraper showdown: Rake and Aliya ascend an ultra-secure corporate tower to confront a high-ranking trafficker. Using makeshift gear, improvised gadgets, and brutal martial calculations, they fight their way through crowds of guards, leading to a spectacular rooftop sequence with a helicopter extraction shot in a single take. As the helicopter’s downdraft rains debris through glass panels, Rake fights for his life and the boy’s, culminating in a thrilling cliffside jump into the river below.

Once they finally reach the remote jungle hideout, the syndicate’s full operation is revealed—an international pipeline trafficking children for cybercrime ring profits, using island compounds to torture and “program” them. The final act’s storm-season raid—powered by relentless rainfall and lightning flashes—is raw and visceral. Rake and Aliya split up: Aliya infiltrates the compound to shut down the operation’s network servers, while Rake storms detention barracks in brutal hand-to-hand combat.

The emotional climax arrives as Rake rescues Ovi’s son, but he’s visibly changed—silent, distant, damaged. The escape is bittersweet. Rake, injured and exhausted, places the boy back with Ovi, choosing not to stay. But Aliya leads him away, recognizing that both of them can’t walk away from this war. In the film’s final scene, Rake and Aliya stand on a fishing pier at dawn—both bloodied, both determined—deciding to go after the other syndicate cells still operating.

Extraction 3 deepens the franchise by transforming Rake from lone mercenary into a man driven by redemption, loyalty, and fragile hope—all while delivering the stomach-churning action fans crave.