The concept is great. The story though rolls along very predictably and the characters are too 1 dimensional. The fight scenes really badly choreographed. More of something you'd expect in a 1950s movie while still managing to be over the top in spite of how sluggish and unrealistic they were. The worst of both worlds really. There were some good acting performances, but a lot of good actors got very poor lines and or scenes to work with. I watched the movie the whole way through, and at times enjoyed parts of the movie, but the effort was far too much a pale imitation when a real story awaited telling. It's not a horrible movie, just not one that does justice to what it could have been.
Review of The Rising Hawk
