He demands one of the robbers shoot him, and when the man hesitates, Chapman grows impatient, disarms the robbers, and foils the robbery. After playing Russian roulette, he enters a convenience store moments before it is robbed. John "Falcon" Chapman is a United States Marine Corps veteran who suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. Formerly titled Favela, Falcon Rising was intended to be the first installment of Moonstone Entertainment's "CODENAME: FALCON" action franchise which was to revolve around former Marine character John "Falcon" Chapman, "a dark anti-hero driven by guilt, who will destroy himself unless given something else to destroy - a useful weapon-of-last-resort for the foreign ministry." Falcon Rising had a limited theatrical release on September 5, 2014. If $10 is the full price of admission, FALCON RISING is worth $7ĭon’t miss our exclusive interview with Michael Jai White HERE!įalcon Rising arrives in theaters September 5th (Available on iTunes, DirecTV, and OnDemand Sept.Falcon Rising is a 2014 American action film directed by Ernie Barbarash and starring Michael Jai White, Neal McDonough, Laila Ali and Masashi Odate. So, if you like action films and you want to see droves of bad guys get the beatdown they so desperately deserve, then give this movie a try. This film knows what it is, knows what you want, and it isn’t bashful about giving you exactly that with no filler or attempts at shaking up the cinematic world. Is FALCON RISING going to win any Oscars? No. My hat is off to director Barbarash for keeping the film exciting without every overdoing it with quick cut edits. Every fight was as brutal as it was entertaining. Each shot counted, which brought a real life feel to the movie. There were no indiscriminate sprays of bullets, no machine guns going clacka-clacka-clacka for minutes on end. At times I was reminded of EQUILBRIUM’s gun-kata style, with punches followed by well placed shots, followed by kicks and then another shot. It’s amazing to see a guy so covered in muscle leap and spin as quickly as he does.īut what I really enjoyed was how well the gunplay was integrated into the fights. White is a powerhouse, his size matched only by his speed. The story is simple, the acting proficient, and the locations exotic, all of which pleases my inner 80s child, but the action…oh the action is what you really came for, and it does not disappoint. And when his fists start flying, neither do they.įALCON RISING is a mixture of old and new action styles. When he eventually discovers who the true forces are behind his sister’s attack, it’s an enemy he never saw coming. Knowing those bastards have to pay, he hops a plane and, with the help of his old military friend Manny (Neal McDonough), begins the search. White plays John “Falcon” Chapman, a former soldier and PTSD sufferer whose sister is badly beaten by unknown evildoers in the favelas of Sao Paolo, Brazil. So, you can imagine how please I was to watch FALCON RISING, a straight-up action movie staring Michael Jai White ( SPAWN, BLACK DYNAMITE) and directed by Ernie Barbarash ( 6 BULLETS, HARDWIRED). Sure, the movies looked good, but often I wished for the occasional return to yesteryear, when I could sit back and watch a good guy kill a bad guy in a flurry of punches and hollow point ammo. And the action got even more complicated, with every fight needing wirework, and a million cameras took it in from every angle imaginable, all of which we had to see in a rapid volley of quick cuts. Suddenly our heroes were troubled and our villains were shades of gray. Then the 90s came, followed by the 00s, and things got complicated. Life was simple back then, straightforward. Their motives didn’t need to be convoluted, the villains didn’t require an ounce of sympathetic humanity, and justice was dealt at the end of a gun, a roundhouse kick, or hopefully both. All they needed to justify killing dozens – if not hundreds – of faceless bad guys was righteous revenge. Back in the 80s, cinematic action heroes had it easy.
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