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Ok the movie stretches credibility once he gets back on land and starts dealing with the cops lead by Danny Glover but you cannot deny its entertainment value. I honestly never heard of eion bailey before this movie but he does a good job of taking us frantically from one scene to the next and I liked the Caribbean locations to the point that it maybe deserved a theatrical release. The ending on the speedboat was thrilling with a bittersweet final shot of the family on the island leaving it slightly open ended.

The scenario"A fun trip go horribly wrong" had been done countless time before and is one of my favorite movie sub genre but if only it well directed and this movie Extortion (2017) hit all the right note in my book.The movie told a story about a family man will do anything to get back his family when he get caught up in a deadly situation involving a local fish man.The thing i like the most about this movie is although the bad and good guy line is pretty clear from the beginning but the more the movie go the more you will feel sympathy for the bad guy brilliant played by Barkhad Abdi a very underrated actor you may recognize from Captain Phillips.The main character played by Eion Bailey also very good in this movie when it come to emotional scene and showing the die hard will of a man.I'm also very please when seeing Danny Glover in this movie despite being a supporting character.The thing turned me off the most is i freaking hate what they did with Barkhad Abdi character when they kill him off during the movie climax.

Not to be confused with 2015's Extraction and its similar poster, Extortion is my latest review. With its star in the making locales, its natural character acting, and its gnawing tension that may upset you, Extortion takes the ordinary family vacation and turns it into a plunging nightmare. After seeing this movie, you might want to take heed when hastily visiting the Caribbean. Also, you might wanna ride a jet ski as opposed to any other form of zipped buoyancy.

The plot of Extortion is fairly original despite the fact that it kinda nods towards films like Cast Away and 1997's Breakdown. As it begins, your hunch tells you that something really bad is about to happen. Extortion involves a doctor, his wife, and his young tyke of a son. This parentage gets more than they bargain for. Believe it. They go on a warm getaway, they decide to rent an old boat, and they become stranded on a deserted island. Then, a fisherman attempts to rescue them but wants a million dollars in return.

Directed with relentless verve by Phil Volken, Extortion doesn't indulge in cinematic gimmicks and moves at a decent clip. Volken has his flick play detective as the story goes off into many stirring directions. He uses overhead shots and some jittery camera-work. Overall, his method is just plain efficacious. His troupers don't let him down either. Eion Bailey plays with nerve-ending intensity, the protagonist doctor named Kevin Riley. And Barkhad Abdi who's more creepy here than he was in Captain Phillips, channels the antagonistic fisherman named Miguel Kaba.

Part thriller, part drama. and part psychological horror fare, Extortion shattered me and I'm sure it will shatter you too. Granted, it doesn't have a notable lead or a strong marketing ploy. And it's only being released in U.S. and in the Philippines. Regardless, this thing is still my pick for biggest movie surprise of 2017. It's cynical, frustrating, nasty, and harrowing. Heck, it's okay to get "blackmailed" into seeing Extortion. Rating: 3 and a half stars.

One of the worst movies ever, If I could give zero I would. The plot, if I can call it that was so stupid I almost turned off but kept watching as it was so bad it was almost comical.

Just some plot holes were.

A supposedly intelligent Doctor stupidly rents a boat from a local, the boat has no Radio and he doesn't seem to think to take a mobile phone. He was so desperate to hire it because no Jet skis available, yet this is their first day at the resort and tomorrow would have been OK surely?

When telling the Police his family are on an Island they calculate a 150 mile radius as they say he was drifting for an hour, yet he had not drifted on his way to the Island and should have told them how far or at least how long he had traveled, narrowing the search

He stupidly allows his family stranded on the Island yet pays a high ransom before they are rescued. Duh!

He is taken by Miguel to a payphone to raise the money needed. He makes several calls but doesn't think to just run to the nearest Police station and get Miguel arrested.

Rather than cooperate with the Police he acts like a guilty criminal and tries to track the criminals down himself. This guy has no fighting skills but thinks he will be quite safe chasing hardened criminals in areas where he stands out as not local..

When finding Miguel's home, he bursts in with no plan. He tries to fight in order to force Miguel to take him to his family. Had he learned nothing from previous contact with this man? Why did he not phone the Police and tell then he had found Miguel? He manages to Kill Miguel, the man who knows where his family are. Great plan that.

He gets on a bus going nowhere particularly as if he has all the time in the world. Has he forgotten his family are stranded on an Island? But wait the other criminal just happens to be on the same bus... wow of course that could happen. Then this man gets knocked over on a quiet road by ta car that does not even break or sound the horn. This is a wide straight road and the driver would have seen him long before. The driver then acts as if nothing much has happened, he may have killed this man but stays around and even lifts the body into his truck. Oh and just before our hero says to the driver, 'I am taking your truck', yes he is such a tough guy that the driver will just let him?

When reaching to the island he finds his wife and son collapsed for some reason since they seem to have water with them, his son is not breathing so he saves his son by doing CPR. If his son was not breathing he would be dead unless he just happened to stop moments before his Father landed on the Island, oh yes very likely.

As for the very end, it was all left hanging up in the air. Did they live? Die? Was he arrested for the deaths he was involved in? All very very silly. There are many more plot holes and the acting is awful throughout. Danny Glover was cast as a Detective who has as much common sense as a slug.and he is way to old to play this part. Just why he or Eion Bailey or Barkhad Abdi agreed to star in this nonsense is a mystery. As is why some on here gave good reviews. Were they watching the same movie?

Kevin Riley (Eion Bailey) is the county hospital heart surgeon who can't fix his own lawn mower. So when he takes his family out for a boat ride, we already know he won't be able to fix it. They get help from Miguel (Barkhad Abdi) who extorts money from the doctor then leaves everyone for dead. Kevin manages to survive and the authorities (Danny Glover etc.) don't seem to be any help, thinking he planned the whole thing for the insurance money. Kevin conducts his own investigation to find his family...

Eion Baily is not Liam Neeson so when he gears up to go "walking tall" there is no adrenaline rush. A doctor who can't fix a lawn mower has zero MacGyver potential too. He is not a former SEAL or special operative, just a guy. Danny Glover has a role smaller than his billing, meaning they can't sell the film on it's own merits. Low energy.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Honestly I have no idea why so many people think badly of this movie, which is actually very entertaining. Yes I know there are parts of the story that are too coincidental(car accident) and stupid (why would you go sailing for 3 hours under the burning sun without a phone or water?? Also correct me if I am wrong, but I thought you can eat tree leaves for water when you get stuck in a deserted island??)The rest of the movie is just great, troubles/twists one after another, making the story compact and tense. I really enjoyed it!

Firstly i want to say that this is my first IMDb review, and English isn't my native language, so please excuse me if i make grammar mistakes.

I personally can't understand how such an awful scenario for this movie was approved. It is full of mistakes that in real life would never happen. I watched it just because of Barkhad Abdi acting in the movie.

Spoiler alert from now on !!!

In this review i will try to explain why this movie was so bad for me.

• In the beginning of the movie, when the family arrives on the island, the father rush to rent a jet ski to ride with his kid. When he is told all the jet skis are already rented he does a desperate move renting a boat from a local man, like he was in his last day of the vacation.

• Another thing that it seems weird to me, is that the boat has no radio station so you can emit an S.O.S. if needed. The biggest thing that i can't understand is the lack of cell phone on the family. Like really? No camera, no phone, no nothing when you go on a vacantion ?? A GPS on a phone would resolve so many things...

• Throughout the movie Kevin Riley is seen wearing a watch. From the moment he wakes up in the boat took by Miguel he can look at the time and calculate how much time was until they arrived at the harbor. This information would narrow the search area for the police.

• He is taken by Miguel to a payphone to raise the money needed. He is shown calling multiple persons. From where did he get the numbers? Highly improbable that he would memorate all that numbers.

• When he is left to drawn in the boat, the wood walls are old and frail so it is hard to believe that a strong man cannot put a hole in those.

• Highly improbable that the crossbow would trigger when put down gently.

• He escapes the hospital very easy, running with a fresh wound.

• Jorge get's run over by somebody right in the middle of the road, with no brakes, no nothing.

• With he's dying powers Jorge points a island to a map he barely seen (Kevin has three maps, but when Jorge opens his eyes he has the correct one in the hand) and is for the first time he is seen them.

• Again with a fresh wound Kevin runs for the nearest harbor but with just minutes ago he cannon run for more than a few meters.

• When refueling the boat the contor on the fuel pump run very slowly, but in the next shot it goes very fast, filling the 1200 litres fuel tank in just under a minute.

• When reaching to the island he miraculously saves his son life by doing cardiac massage (manage to get there just when his heart stops beating...)

If all this doesn't convince you that this is a bad movie i don't know what to say more.