Castle Falls (2021) Biography, Plot, Trailer

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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Theatrical, Home media, Critical response:

The film has a limited release in the United States on December 3, 2021. It will be available in Blu-ray and video on demand on December 28, 2021. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 8 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.50/10.