John Wick vs. Extraction's Tyler Rake: Who Wins
392023's slate of action films features some of the hardest heroes to take down in action history. Earlier this year, fans flocked to theaters in droves to see John Wick: Chapter 4 where Keanu Reeves once again proves there's no one better at gun-fu while Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One marks the return of Tom Cruise's unkillable Ethan Hunt later this year. Stuck in the middle of these behemoths is a newer hero in Chris Hemsworth's Tyler Rake who survived some gnarly wounds to make it back for Extraction 2. With Wick and Rake becoming fan-favorite seemingly-immortal heroes, Collider's own Steve Weintraub had to ask director Sam Hargrave who he thought would win in a fight between the two.
Obviously, as the helmer of both Extraction and Extraction 2, Hargrave is a bit of a biased judge, something the stuntman-turned-director willingly admits upfront."That's like the greatest question of all time," he said while laughing. "I mean, that's tough because, you know, I'm partial to the character of Tyler Rake." He's more willing to give the upper hand to his hero over Wick especially since he's intimately familiar with everything that Rake is capable of. "I’m gonna take away John Wick's bulletproof suit and I'm gonna give it to Tyler Rake. The dude's a badass, so there's no debate."
When asked to take off his director hat though, the question becomes more of a challenge. John Wick has become an action icon, rising from the ranks of low-budget indie looking for a home to a billion-dollar franchise with films that only get more insane as they go along. As he's made his way through the world of assassins and dismantled the High Table, John has taken his licks but always manages to come back with a vengeance, attaining an almost mythical status within the world of the films. Hargrave insists he's not trying to discredit any of Baba Yaga's accomplishments, but Chapter 4's ending proves that he can be taken down and there's no evidence yet in the director's mind that Rake can be especially after surviving a gunshot to the neck:
"No! No one– John Wick is a verb now, like to John Wick someone, that’s a thing. He's a legend onscreen in his own movies, and yet he's a legend now as an action icon. So no, that dude doesn't go down without a fight, but the fourth movie proves he can go down! And we've proven that our guy can be killed and brought back from the dead, so you gotta give it to Tyler Rake. A long, hard-fought battle, to be sure, but I think you gotta go with Tyler Rake."
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