9/26/2023 0 Comments Falcon rising![]() 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. Not on the German Blu-ray.Back in the 80s, cinematic action heroes had it easy. On the Blu-ray, the following scene in which John and Hirimoto face off can be seen a tiny bit earlier.ġ:29:39: The final headshot given to Hirimoto is bloody in the R-Rated. ![]() Only the R-Rated shows how John approaches Carlo, lies his head onto his shoulder and breaks it with a loud crack after Carlo cursed one last time. It happens onscreen while the Blu-ray shows the firing weapon.ġ:25:00: You could count that as a real cut. On the German Blu-ray it's much more harmless.ġ:21:09: Once again a headshot is more brutal in the R-Rated. The R-Rated has a close-up that is decidedly more bloody. They call it the "first-ever" uncut Blu-ray release, which also nurtures our theory.Ĭompared are the censored German Blu-ray (FSK Keine Jugendfreigabe) (by Black Hill Pictures / Koch Media) and the uncensored US DVD (R-Rated) (by Freestyle Digital Media).ģ scenes with alternate material, 1 cut = 14.92 secondsġ:19:26: When John shoots the goon in the head, both versions show this from a different angle. Until then, note that we can only work with the info presented above.Įither way, the German distributor has reacted quickly and will release the uncensored version in the form of a limited mediabook release featuring the film on DVD and Blu-ray via Inked Pictures. We would love to hear from our UK and Australian readers whether or not that can be confirmed. For Australia: the fact that both markets received a Blu-ray release while the US only have a DVD edition with a different master suggest that this censored version may have been delivered to the film's UK and Australian distributors. ![]() UK: 96:39 min.) are closer together than the found difference would account for. Regarding the UK: both runtimes (Germany: 96:38 min. What makes this case an interesting issue for Australian and British customers is that it could affect their markets, as well. And indeed, the label was unaware and immensely surprised after hearing what we found out. After receiving that info, we asked the German distributor Black Hill Pictures whether they demanded such a special treatment since the uncensored scenes most likely wouldn't have had any problems with the German ratings board FSK. The relevant scenes were shot in two ways during production. It turns out that the US production studio Moonstone Entertainment made an alternate version with less violence that was said to be intended for the German market which is not too tolerant when it comes to that. A viewer of our German site noticed some differences in violent scenes and we began our research. What's not so thrilling is the film's censorship situation outside of the US. All that is entertaining throughout and manages to keep the viewer interested until the end which gives all the more reason to look forward to the upcoming Flight of the Falcon. ![]() For that, he clashes with corrupt cops and crime gangs in the favelas. He is a traumatized war veteran on the verge of suicide but an attack on his sister in Brazil changes everything and he is hellbent on finding the culprits. Falcon Rising is an action film made in 2014 and is the first entry of a planned franchise starring martial arts ace Michael Jai White in the role of John "Falcon" Chapman.
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