Chris Hemsworth wears a Casio G-Shock Rangeman

When Netflix released the first teaser for Extraction 2 in September 2021, the G-Shock fan site G-Central spotted a familiar shape on Chris Hemsworth's left wrist. The teaser shows Tyler Rake bloodied in golden light, one hand pressed to the neck wound that closed out the first film, and below that hand sits a round olive digital watch with the protruding sensor guard of a Casio G-Shock Rangeman. G-Central was careful about what it claimed. A Rangeman was visible in the footage, the site reported, but it was not known whether Hemsworth would be wearing the same watch as before. He had worn a Rangeman GW-9400-3 through the whole of the first film, the olive survival model with a Triple Sensor that reads altitude, barometric pressure, compass bearing, and temperature. Time and Tide Watches put that first watch in a tradition it described plainly: G-Shocks have become 'the watch of choice for any stone-cold killing machine with a vaguely military bearing.' The watch in the teaser looks like that one. But no published source ever named the exact reference for the sequel, not Casio and not the watch press, and the identification still rests on that teaser footage.

The film arrived on June 16, 2023, with Rake rising from the river where the first film left him and recruited to extract the family of a Georgian crime boss from prison. Its production stills keep the watch out of sight. In the train images Hemsworth grips a red hatch frame on a snowbound roof with both hands gloved and the wrist sealed under a jacket cuff, and in the burned-out aftermath shots his left arm disappears into a dark sleeve. G-Central had called the first film arguably the biggest G-Shock appearance ever in a film, counting the screen time, the star, and the movie's success. Across the sequel's publicity material, the clearest look at the watch remains that teaser frame.

Sam Hargrave, a former stuntman who doubled Chris Evans as Captain America and worked on Avengers: Infinity War, built the sequel around an action sequence that plays as one unbroken shot for roughly 21 minutes, out of a prison and onto that moving train, assembled from long takes with the seams hidden rather than captured in a single true pass. For the prison riot he set Hemsworth on fire, with real flame rather than digital effects, multiple jackets layered for protection, and take after take through the night. 'We lit Chris Hemsworth on fire, and he beat up a bunch of guys all night,' Hargrave told Empire. 'For me, the image of Chris Hemsworth beating the shit out of a bunch of prisoners, while on fire, in the snow was something that I couldn't pass up.'