Guns blazing, bones cracking, heads exploding, Extraction is captivating right from the start! A job to extract one kid turned into an emotional survival mission. We’re all set to say goodbye when something, or someone, caught our eyes at the end of the movie. What was it? Who was it? We’ll reveal the answer. Here is the Extraction ending explained!
Spoiler alert!
For those who don’t know, Extraction is a full-on action movie starring Chris Hemsworth. He teamed up once again with Avenger’s Joe Russo on the screenplay and Sam Hargrave behind the camera directions. The movie mostly set in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a highly populated city hanging on the threshold of poverty.
Hemsworth is Tyler Rake is a mercenary, taking dangerous jobs that involve killing and facing death as a risk. This time, he was sent to extract a teenage kid named Ovi, a son of a drug lord in India. Ovi was kidnapped by the rival drug lord who was described as another Pablo Escobar.
Long story short, Tyler created a bond with Ovi throughout the mission. But before we continue, we should give you a heads up. This article contains major spoilers. So, if you haven’t watched Extraction, turn your heads away now!
Alright, are we set? Let’s get started!
The ending of Extraction
After a brutal on foot shootout with the military forces of Bangladesh, Tyler was cornered. Only shielded by cars and buses stopping at the bridge, he was hanging by a thread with broken bones, bruises, and cuts from the previous altercations.
Hundreds of feet away, a sniper was eyeing on him, waiting to get a clear shot of Tyler. On the other end of the bridge, Nik was trying to get to him as their exit chopper is hovering, waiting. But Nik was still far behind as the sniper finally took a shot and hit Tyler on his body. He fell, struggling just to sit up. Before the sniper took another hit, Nik got to him with a bullseye.
Ovi, who was hiding in one of the buses on the bridge, ran to Tyler and cried. He then ran towards Nik after an emotional goodbye with Tyler. Out of nowhere, Tyler found his last strength to cover for Ovi. He got up and started shooting, killing more armed forces approaching.
He succeeded! The battle is over! Or so he thought. He turned away and walked towards Nik and Ovi, only to take another bullet. The bullet missed his head, but it hit him right in the neck. While losing blood profusely, he stumbled away to the end of the bridge. Through eye contact, he told Nik and Ovi to go, to leave him behind. And so they did.
Alone at the edge of the bridge, Tyler looked up to the sky. His life flashed before his eyes. And as he lost consciousness, he fell over the bridge into the river.
Cut scene to 8 months later, Ovi was walking around school. While Nik went on to kill the drug lord herself. Now we’ve come to the most important part of the ending. Ovi was sitting at the bottom of the school’s swimming pool when he felt something. He then rushed back to the surface. And that’s where we saw a blurry figure of a man that looks like Tyler.
Is that man Tyler?
The answer is up to you. Hargrave, Russo, and Hemsworth stated that the end of the movie is up to the viewer’s interpretation. While this answer may not satisfy you, let’s take a look at both of your options: