John "Falcon" Chapman is driven by guilt and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
When Chapman's sister is brutally attacked while on assignment in Brazil, Chapman flies into Sao Paulo to track down her assailants
But he quickly enters the city's seedy underbelly and discovers a world of drugs, the sex trade, corrupt cops, and organised crime syndicates battling for control.
It's a comforting image, when you see a straight to video action star in a one sheet looking down and slightly angry, with a shirtless gangster holding a samurai sword. It's comforting because you know exactly what your going to get, a revenge film with lots of fights and a decent final boss fight.
These films have been around since the mid-eighties, and it proves that people still love these films, even if they won't admit it, because they follow a narrative that is as old as time.
Tortured soul, who drinks a lot, has a fight in a shop by people holding the place up, gets visited by his sister, she gets hurt, he wants revenge, and there are lots of wonderfully choreographed fight sequences.
And if you hadn't guessed that those cops are corrupt the minute they appear on screen, you haven't seen enough of these films.
It's nothing new, it doesn't attempt to be anything that it isn't, and it's all the better for it.
When Chapman's sister is brutally attacked while on assignment in Brazil, Chapman flies into Sao Paulo to track down her assailants
But he quickly enters the city's seedy underbelly and discovers a world of drugs, the sex trade, corrupt cops, and organised crime syndicates battling for control.
It's a comforting image, when you see a straight to video action star in a one sheet looking down and slightly angry, with a shirtless gangster holding a samurai sword. It's comforting because you know exactly what your going to get, a revenge film with lots of fights and a decent final boss fight.
These films have been around since the mid-eighties, and it proves that people still love these films, even if they won't admit it, because they follow a narrative that is as old as time.
Tortured soul, who drinks a lot, has a fight in a shop by people holding the place up, gets visited by his sister, she gets hurt, he wants revenge, and there are lots of wonderfully choreographed fight sequences.
And if you hadn't guessed that those cops are corrupt the minute they appear on screen, you haven't seen enough of these films.
It's nothing new, it doesn't attempt to be anything that it isn't, and it's all the better for it.