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Falcon Rising (2014)

Falcon Rising poster
Directed by
Ernie Barbarash
Genre
action film, yakuza film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 390 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A former Marine with a violent past travels to Brazil to track down those who attacked his sister. He takes on local criminals and a powerful syndicate.

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What happens

Falcon Rising is a 2014 American action film directed by Ernie Barbarash and starring Michael Jai White, Neal McDonough, Laila Ali and Masashi Odate. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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