I’m not sure he’d appreciate that the one character who talks a big game about Christianity is the one who least exemplifies it. Uh oh, I hope Tyler Perry doesn’t watch this. It goes a little slower than you might hope as he gets the lay of the land from good cop Katarina Da’Silva (a lady who looks like Jasmine Guy ) and bad cop Thiago Santo (a guy who looks like Willem Dafoe ) and learns why life in a favela is more complicated than he assumes. White plays suicidal PSTD suffering ex-Marine John Chapman, who we aren’t told until the very last scene is also code named “Falcon.” When his social worker sister (introducing Laila Ali) turns up beaten nearly to death in Rio (Puerto Rico) he flies in and of course starts his own investigation. The main poster is better and more professional looking, but I like this ’cause it kinda captures that Falcon vibe, you know? Like the scene where he walks into a club and you see the bouncer size him up as he walks past. Consulate Old Friend Neal McDonough meets up with him again and quips “I see you’ve stopped working out.” There’s more than one part where I laughed just seeing MJW walk around in public, much like I do with Blade or The Punisher. But one look at his cartoonishly inflated muscles or at one of his flying kicks and it’s clear that he was meant for an endless series of action vehicles, even if that’s not what Hollywood (or Sofia, or whoever) thinks they’re supposed to be making in this era. He’s supplemented his many action credits with Tyler Perry movies and sitcoms (WHY DID I GET MARRIED 1-TOO, For Better or Worse) and with creating and writing BLACK DYNAMITE (both the movie and the animated series, soon in its second season). But it is something I love that the world doesn’t get enough of these days: a solid meat and potatoes action movie molded entirely around the badassness of a martial artist, the great Michael Jai White.Ĭareer-wise, MJW has diversified more than his golden age predecessors like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal (who he fought in UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: THE RETURN and EXIT WOUNDS, respectively). It’s not as imaginative or expertly executed as those. I don’t think FALCON RISING is a new b-action classic like BLOOD AND BONE or UNDISPUTED II.
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