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		List Price: $9.98		Label: First Look Pictures Salesrank: 77764 Released: August 26, 2005
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 06/21/2005 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R

Falcon Down Reviews:
Veteran Actors Misused
2009-09-26 - It would be difficult to improve on Van T. Roberts' negative review of this movie. He covered it all. I agree with him that the plot is mediocre at best, and that the veteran actors in it should have be warned to avoid the movie. Their agents did not represent them well. I saw the last half of this on a premium movie channel, and I am surprised that they played it. I kept waiting for it to improve, but all I saw was one unrealistic scene after another. Avoid watching this movie.

Falcon Down
2009-09-23 - I have watched this DVD several times as well as the TV movie of the same. It is certainly filled with suspense in every scene. Again the undesirable language popped up several times. I wish the directors would delete the gutter type language as it directly reflects on somebody's lack of education. The acting was very realistic. It is a shame to put some of those words in the mouth of a wonderful actor like Dale Midkiff.

Decent movie
2009-07-29 - This movie was good enough for me to order it for my mother. I'm not sure if she watched it yet, or not to ask her how she liked it. I saw the movie on one of the premium movie channels during my 3 free months. I rather enjoyed the movie. It was good enough for me to actually sit there, and watch from beginning to end. If a movie isn't good, I'll get up, and do something else while its on. It has some action in it, and it has a pretty decent plot. It's worth while.

Just Plane Awful . . .
2007-08-05 - Everybody went slumming for paychecks in this amateurish "Firefox"
clone. The surprising thing is that writer & director Phillip J. Roth
and three other scenarists, Jonathan Raymond, Jon Meyer, and Terri
Neish, weren't sued for copyright infringement. "Falcon Down"
appropriates the plot of Clint Eastwood's "Firefox" and part of the
plot of "Firefox" novelist Craig Thomas' sequel "Firefox Down."
Watching this improbable aerial thriller once must have convinced the
"Firefox" people to forego any lawsuit. "Falcon Down" is abysmal from
start to finish and wastes the talents of Cliff Robertson, William
Shatner, and Judd Nelson. The opening credits are enough to turn you
off as we watch a scanner locate different parts of the Earth and then
watch as the names of cast and crew emerge for what seems forever. The
special effects just barely make the grade, probably because the jets
are filmed against night skies. A perfunctory romance between leading
man Dale Midkiff and soap opera beauty queen Sandra Ferguson barely
heats up.

"Falcon Down" opens with insubordinate Captain Hank Thomas (Dale
Midkiff of CBS-TV's "The Magnificent Seven") and Captain Bobby Edwards
(Ken Olandt of "Digital Man") flying around at night. They disobey the
orders of their superior officer, Major Robert Carson (William Shatner
of "Star Trek") and enter forbidden airspace. No sooner have they
trespassed than some inexplicable force blinds Captain Edwards and his jetfighter crashes. Not long afterward a 747 encounters the
same effect, similar to electrocution, with rays wriggled all over the
aircraft fuselage before it crashes and 200 people die. When Thomas demands to know what happened to Edwards, Major Carson refuses to divulge the details and brings Thomas up on court-martial charges. Three years later, after he has been dishonorably discharged from the Air Force, Thomas is working with his father, Buzz Thomas (Cliff Robertson of "633 Squadron"), who has gone into debt and needs $200-thousand bucks to bail him out. Thomas' nemesis from yesteryear shows up and makes our protagonist an offer that he cannot refuse. It seems that a top secret supersonic jet--the Falcon--with a special combat weapons system needs to be stolen and Carson is shelling out the bucks. He represents a group of C.I.A agents, including Sharon (Jennifer Rubin) and Harold Peters (Judd Nelson), who need to steal it. Thomas is such an idiot that he believes them. They break into the plant and steal the jet. When U.S. Air Force interceptors scramble and come after them, Peters activates the micro-wave weapon and starts knocking them off. During the aerial firefight, the Falcon
takes a bullet in its wing tank and starts losing fuel. Thomas crash
lands the jet on the ice cap while a Red Chinese sub with Major Carson
on board cruises underwater toward them for a rendezvous.
Unfortunately, for the villains, the plane sinks with the pilots and
the traitors on board. The Red Chinese had planned on towing the jet
underwater back to their base, but efforts to tow the plane fail and it
drags the sub down to destruction.

If this plot synopsis makes "Falcon Down" sound provocative enough to
watch, look out! Director Phillip Roth never generates any suspense and
the dialogue is as forgettable as the plot is preposterous. Roth appears to have cloned some of the imagery from "Firefox," such as the shot where the jet wheels out of the hanger before take-off. Jennifer Rubin keeps her
clothes on the entire time and adds nothing to the plot. Dale Midkiff
looks hopeless as a so-called 'ladies man' in a movie that went
straight to video and has nothing to distinguish it. Dull, dull, dull!
I bought my DVD copy of "Falcon Down" for $2.00 plus tax from Movie
Gallery during a discount sale. If I had known how egregious this
pseudo-thriller was, I'd have put it back on the shelf.

"Falcon Down" is presented in full frame with no extras of any significance.

Sandra Fan
2003-09-12 - I rented this 'cause I like Sandra Ferguson. She looked great as usual and the plot was decent. I was really surprised that Cliff Robertson was in it too. The action was good and I wasn't disappointed I rented this movie.