Castle Falls (2021)
Castle Falls is a 2021 American action film starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren in his first film as director since 2010, who produced with Andre Relis and Craig Baumgarten. The film co-stars Scott Adkins, Jim Chandler, Kim Delonghi, Dave Halls, Scott Hunter, Robert Berlin and Lundgren’s real life daughter Ida Lundgren.
Plot
Adkins plays Mike Wade, an over-the- hill MMA fighter from Birmingham, England, down on his luck in Birmingham, Alabama. Cadging a job as part of a demolition crew stripping Castle Heights hospital, he finds a three-holdall stash of greenbacks in a cupboard. With the building due to be dynamited in 90 minutes, he returns solo for the money – unaware that two other interested parties are also moving in: Lundgren’s prison guard Ericson, who needs to finance his daughter’s cancer treatment, and a gang kingpin (Scott Hunter) out to secure the loot on behalf of his incarcerated brother.
That’s all that needs to be said. Andrew Knauer’s script spends the first third of the film unnecessarily detailing the various allegiances, which defers the good stuff: Lundgren and Adkins pounding seven shades out of each other and then teaming up against the real heavies. Lundgren, in his fleece and spectacles, looks like the most virile crown-green bowling player you’ve ever seen.
With a surprisingly substantial action-directing resumé behind him, Lundgren makes strong positional use of the decrepit high-rise in a way that Die Hard did expertly, though his action choreography – serviceable but staid – is less cutting-edge than Gareth Evans’s in The Raid.
Cast:
- Dolph Lundgren as Richard Ericson
- Scott Adkins as Mike Wade
- Jim Chandler as Foreman
- Kim Delonghi as Kat
- Dave Halls as Vince
- Kevin Wayne as James
- Scott Hunter as Deacon Glass
- Luke Hawx as Inmate #2
- Billy Culbertson as Inmate / Busted Lip
- Leslie Sides as Mayor’s Assistant
- Melanie Jeffcoat as Doctor
- Ida Lundgren as Emily
- Evan Elise Owens as Cop
- Justin B. Wooten as Duke
- Bill Billions as Walsh
- Evan Dane Taylor as Fighter
- Eric Gray as Lando
- Meagan Bown as News Reporter
- Robert Berlin as Damian Glass
- Vas Sanchez as George
- Alicia Roye as George’s Wife
- Meg Deusner as Social Worker
- Nathan Harris as Construction worker
- Ethan Melisano as MMA Fighter
- Samuel Puccio as MMA Coach
- A. Todd Baker as Mayor Lloyd Holmes
- Hassel Kromer as Construction worker
- Edward Hall as Security Guard
- Bruce Cooper as Mayor’s Security
- Kourtney Harper
- Derrick Goodman Jr. as Prisoner
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