Extraction spoilers follow.

Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth, arrived on Netflix on Friday (April 24) and left viewers with a major question over its ending.

The movie sees Hemsworth play mercenary Tyler Rake who undertakes a dangerous mission to rescue the kidnapped son of a drug lord, but the mission doesn't exactly go to plan.

Digital Spy spoke to director Sam Hargrave to explain the ambiguous ending to his action movie, so needless to say, major spoilers are ahead.

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After managing to get Ovi (Rudraksh Jaiswal) to the extraction point, it appears as though the success of the mission has come at the cost of Tyler's life.

He gets shot several times during the final battle and the last we see of him, Tyler falls off the bridge and into the water below.

However, eight months later, Ovi is in a swimming pool when he looks over and sees a mysterious person by the side of the pool.

It could well be Tyler who would have had a miraculous recovery from his injuries, but we don't see who it is before the movie ends.

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While Hargrave isn't about to reveal whether it really is Tyler, he said the open ending came from test audience reactions.

"There was a discussion back and forth throughout the whole production process as to what the ending of the movie wanted to be, and we shot a number of different ways," he explained.

"Through the test audiences and amongst us, the filmmakers, we decided on that ending as being the best, because different people viewed the film in different ways. They have different reactions. And test audiences were kind of split down the middle.

"We actually tried to be respectful of that and to serve that. Depending on how you view the film, I think the ending will play differently for different people, depending on your feelings for these characters throughout the film."

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Hargrave also spoke to Digital Spy about the possibility of a follow-up to Extraction if it proves to be a hit.

Extraction is now available to watch on Netflix.

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