'Castle Falls' (2021) – Dolph Lundgren.

As an avid fan of, Dolph Lundgren and, Scott Adkins, I had no doubt their collaboration on 'Castle Falls' would prove explosive! while the text is competent rather than compelling, the volatile combination of these two dynamic stars yields a twin-fisted typhoon of satisfyingly slam-bang martial arts/Gun-Fu mayhem! For disparate motives, a mercenary crew of heavily armed hoodlums, veteran prison guard, Ericson (Lundgren), and itinerant labourer Wade (Adkins) fatefully converge in condemned Hospital Castle Falls, all hoping to score the 3 million dollars stashed therein. Referencing, Walter Hill's Trespass, Dolph Lundgren's dynamic actioner delivers energetic beatdowns once the proverbial cat has shat the fan! The handsome, charismatic, physically adept leads, and their bravura action scenes makes 'Castle Falls' a bullet-blasted, femur fracturing treat for Dolph/Adkins fans!

Swap the cash for gold, the grim suburban setting for sun baked Texan badlands and Castle Falls would rock no less righteously as a brutalist western! The despicable bad guys are all the way bad, Dolph Lundgren's Ericson is the noble patriarch, and fearfully fleet, close quarters dynamo, Scott Adkin's Mike Wade is a refreshingly Stoic hero imbued with morality, an iron jaw, and especially lethal reflexes! Dolph has aged like good whiskey, he simply gets better, his steely screen presence having the indomitable masculinity of, John Wayne, and he's maturing into an exceptionally fine filmmaker. The athletic combat scenes have a brutal efficacy, the bone-crunching bellicosity being well choreographed, and no exasperating jump-cut juvenilia, these increasingly desperate Kung Fu cats just wail hard on each other real savage! Blunt, direct and pleasingly to the point, like its director, Castle Falls is a lean, mean fighting machine.