It’s stocked both with classy hard alcohol and cheap wine. He walks into the store and right up to a perplexing endcap. He may not have shot himself (just now?), but he seems pretty serious about making his liver take a bullet instead. Despite being a very sunny day, our man is quite subdued. After the intensity and intimacy of the last scene, I’m hoping we don’t lose a lot of time on second-unit stuff.Ĭut to Falcon walking down the street to, what turns out to be, a liquor store. These aerial shots of NYC are pretty, but also pretty generic. Then boom, we cut to aerial shots of New York City. Falcon says (almost sadly), “Not your week …” Another pause. Oblivious, the yellow fish swims around gently in the background. He then loads each into a revolver, spins the chamber and places the barrel under his chin. Bullets and all.īut after a moment, Falcon spits the bullets back out. This little ritual ends on the third glass, and Falcon drinks. A quick close-up on some dog tags lying about confirm that, yes, this is Falcon. The meaning of this little mnemonic will hopefully arrive when the plot does. He begins counting or praying, gesturing above the glasses with his hand, and we hear him saying last names. He then places one bullet in the second glass. Falcon sets three shot glasses down in a row as we enjoy a nice little camera move. So we're just going to call him Falcon from now on. I don’t feel at all uncomfortable this early in the film as I'm assuming this is either: 1) Falcon or 2) a guy who will become "The Falcon." This super close-up is intense, even if you don't know what a badass White is. After a moment, the shot tracks and suddenly we find ourselves right the hell up in Michael Jai White’s face. A yellow fish, swimming in a fish tank that needs to be cleaned. On the cover, Michael Jai White is mid jumpkick, wielding two silver pistols. Jupiter Ascending led me to Falcon Rising by way of a Netflix search. (And here in 2018, as I’m revising this, we now know not many asses ascended into seats during the film’s theatrical run. Because romps + pan-galactism = asses in seats. And it’s a shame they didn’t pull a quote from that last line to promote it. 6, 2014 (around the time I first wrote this review), and promised to carry Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis through an eye-peeling, pan-galactic action romp. The Wachowskis’ last and latest film, Jupiter Ascending , premiered in theaters, Feb.
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