"Castle Falls" - Review

Castle Heights hospital is finally being torn down, years after being officially closed. But inside this decrepit old monument is a stash of $3,000,000 belonging to the imprisoned crime boss Damian Glass (Robert Berlin). Berlin has made a deal with prison guard Richard Ericson (Dolph Lundgren) - Ericson can have the cash (which he needs to pay for his daughter's treatment) if he gets him a better cell with fewer stabbings. Ericson comes to grab it, but has 2 complications: out of work cage fighter Mike Wade (Scott Adkins) is on the demolition team, and has discovered the money, and ruthless gang of Neo-Nazis have arrived on site to seize the money, which they claim to be theirs... As the explosives are planted and the building evacuated, these 3 parties have a mere 90 minutes to get the money, and with this ticking clock there will be explosive confrontations...

A direct-to-DVD action movie directed by our star, Dolph Lundgren (who has earned the nudge-nudge wink-wink "Lundgren Construction" banner on the wall, touche my man) which is exactly what you want it, need it and expect it to be. It's competently made, overcoming a shoestring budget with a fun central premise and the always welcome legendary Scott Adkins (who I am delighted is keeping the action-movie star line alive, and is the one shining star of straight-to-DVD movies nowadays, actual legend that man is) to liven things up. The villains are fun and whilst it's nothing you've not seen before, it's actually going above and beyond what you expect from the usual dreck that the likes of Seagal is pumping out. You can tell that Lundgren wants to be here and wants to do this, and Adkins is great in anything. Ida Lundgren turns in a surprisingly sweet and nice performance too.
It's cheap, cheerful entertainment, and honestly I'm just happy to be getting another action movie this year, they seem few and far between