"Falcon Rising" is definitely worth the time of watching if you are a fan of old school action movies. Which only added to the enjoyment of the movie, of course. There is a lot of action and fighting throughout the course of "Falcon Rising", and I will say that the action sequences and the fight scenes were quite nicely choreographed and executed on the screen. The story, in all its simplistic glory, is about a an ex-marine (played by Michael Jai White) who travels to Brazil, where he takes up fighting the Yakuza in the slums of Brazil, because the Yakuza attacked her sister and left her for dead.
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But the combination of the storyline, the action, the acting, and the cast, then the end result really worked out as an entertaining action movie with that late 1980's feel that action movies had back then. Sure, the storyline was generic and something that definitely has been seen before in other action movies. And it turned out that this action flick was actually rather entertaining. I decided to watch it solely because Michael Jai White starred in it. I had very little expectations to the movie, as I hadn't even heard about it prior to stumbling upon it by sheer luck on Netflix. Somebody should notice this guy and let him start making the films he was meant to make. White seems in peak condition but history tells us that he probably has only so many of these films in him before he goes the way of Seagal and starts wearing designer clothes based on tents. I will close this review with a challenge to anyone in Hollywood with ears to hear and eyes to see. And the benefit of a slow start is that it builds. It is a slow-starter but frankly to see White in an action scene is well worth the wait. For all intents and purposes, this could be White's long-awaited sequel to Blood and Bone. Now, a few years later, director Ernie Barbarash, who seems to have had a penchant for working with Van Damme, finally made the smart choice.
That second part was clearly NOT a no-brainer, because, other than the IMDb faithful, no one else seems to have caught the hint. In my IMDb review of Blood and Bone, I not only top-rated the film (a no-brainer) but pointed out that Michael Jai White was probably the most entertaining action star out there, with split-second moves and a friendly gravitas that lets him connect with the viewer.
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