![]() Close-ups in particular offer really abundant fine detail on everything from facial features to fabrics on variousĬostumes. Orangish yellows, giving things like flesh tones a slightly artificial quality, but also probably emphasizing the ironically sunny environments in which so A lot of the "Brazilian" material is either graded or lit toward almost To really like the look of Red captures, as it boasts an impressively saturated palette (even when graded kind of oddly at times), and some veryĬommendable fine detail levels, even in less than optimal lighting conditions. This is another example of why I have long tended The closing credits list the Red Epic, and I'm assuming things were finished at a 2K DI. Position" working for the State Department, in what was an obvious ploy to pave the way for sequels.įalcon Rising is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of the MVD Marquee Collection, an imprint of MVD Visual, with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer Unfortunately this aspect, which evidently has at least some basis in real life, ends up being wasted in a by the numbersįilm dealing with bad guys and human trafficking, with the entire enterprise leading up to a final scene where Falcon is offered a "permanent And in fact Favela Productions is listed as one of the production entities during the film's Who are ostensibly part of Brazil's favelas (i.e., ghettos). What gives Falcon its most distinctive flavor is the frankly kind of interesting combo platter of yakuza working with some indigent types With regard to someone, and I have to say in this regard, Falcon may actually go against presumed casting indications when that Model, any lover of films supposedly awash with conspiracies is probably going to guess there's some kind of "character reversal" coming Now in an enterprise like this which is firmly shoehorned into a three act Ridley (Neal McDonough), who of course has some history with Falcon. Also on hand, because this is a film that thrives on unexplained "coincidences", is Brazilian diplomat Manny Thiago (Jimmy Novarro), and Thiago's partner Carlo Baroro (Lateef Crowder), who are already working There (which the back cover lists as Sao Paulo, even if the establishing shots clearly show Rio de Janeiro), Falcon teams up with local policeman Virtually requires Falcon to travel down south to figure out what has happened. (Laila Ali) checks up on him while she's briefly in town, but she's soon off to Brazil, where she is beset with a brutal beating, something that of The robbery of a nearby convenience store that Falcon stumbles into would seem to provide him with hisīrand of "assisted suicide" when he accosts the bad guys, but he perhaps unwillingly ends up prevailing against them. In whatĪ rather arresting opening vignette, Falcon is seen not just contemplating suicide, but taking proactive, if somewhat "ambiguous", steps toward itĬourtesy of a game of Russian Roulette. John Chapman (Michael Jai White) who has been given the nickname Falcon, and who is an ex-Marine still haunted by his war experiences. Well as anything that this effort didn't really offer enough of anything new or different to spark a lot of interest. Supposed Brazilian locations (Puerto Rico evidently stood in for things aside from some establishing shots) and the generally excellent fightĬhoreography, but the fact that Falcon Rising never spawned any kind of follow up film that I've been able to track down may indicate as The use of a kind of weirdly international cast helps enliven things, as do some of the Series that might have at least featured some exotic locales. Falcon Rising has the dual (and linked) ambience of being an "origin story" for aįeaturing an action paragon, albeit of the wounded psyche variety, and the feeling of being the pilot for a kind of by the numbers television Passing similarity to at least some aspects of this film). Traumatic stress disorder who nonetheless has been able to maintain his "particular set of skills" (to referenceĪnother action franchise which bears more than a Parazi wanted to revisit Rambo territory with Falcon Rising, since this film, like the Sylvester Stallone franchise, is focused on a veteran with post It seems pretty evident that screenwriter Y.T. ![]() ![]() Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, May 28, 2021
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