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– sits seventh on the streamer’s all-time most popular movies list, with over 231 million hours viewed. The pressure forSo how doesfollow up a titan of Netflix’s Original movie back catalog? By going bigger and bolder – and, largely, the
Weeks later, Rake wakes from his medically induced coma. And, despite moodily suggesting he should have been left to die, he embarks on a months-long rehabilitation journey before retiring to an Austrian mountain shack. His newfound peace is disturbed, though, when the mysterious agent Alcott turns up to offer him a mission: rescue a gangster’s abused family from a Georgian prison for an unknown benefactor.
It’s a satisfying character arc that humanizes this usually stoic and cold individual, one that allows Rake to evolve past the point of being a mentally beaten individual who thinks he has little to live for. It doesn’t make him any less of a badass than before, nor does its thematic importance outweigh the action-packed spectacle on show .
also finds time to explore Rake’s relationships with his fellow operatives, most notably Farahani’s Nik. Rake’s handler had little to do in the film franchise’s first outing. Here, though, she’s given her own arc – albeit small compared to Hemsworth’s lead character – that fleshes out her platonic relationship with Rake and gives her a moment or two to take center stage in this dramatic and action-fuelled family-led story.
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