I'm a big fan of @chrishemsworth, but #extraction sucks: It's worse than a low-budget Bollywood action thriller. Western viewers might find it exotic, but most would agree that when you make a movie about a unique city like Dhaka, you ought to try to make it look like Dhaka.
Indian actors with funny Bangla accents! Shoddy attempts at trying to turn Indian streets into Gulistan: Some rickshaws, pullers, vegetable van and garment workers here and there, yeah, but how did you miss bKash signs at every few shops after?
And, inside those congested houses they broke into, everyone seems to be watching old Hindi movie songs; Hindi drama serials would have been more realistic. Also, when on earth have Dhaka's police chased their targets using police sedan cars--that too, in old Dhaka?! You kiddin'?
That a colonel from an elite force obeys a drug lord from Puran Dhaka and has the capacity to shut off every mode of communication in the city and can unleash military and paramilitary commandos to gun down a single man seems simply outlandish even to a security-sceptic like me.
BTW, where did they find jungle anywhere near Dhaka, let alone Buriganga River?! Also, David Harbour, a foreigner, living in an old house just doesn't make sense! Young drug lord, who rides BMWs, dines with sharee-clad teenage concubines in golden chairs?! C'mon!
Dhaka may be a home to many slum dwellers, congested roads and heavy traffic, but its roads are finer in most places.

Yeah, I get it, it's a fiction, and no one will look for details and accuracy. But being a Dhakaite myself, I had high hopes about the movie.
Also, it didn't feel right about kids being associates of a drug lord. Sure, we have a child labor problem, and poor kids often used as mules, but as armed soldiers? Crazy! Dhaka gangs with AK 47 rifles? Insane!
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