Friday, July 07, 2006

Banlieue 13 (District 13)


Time to get back into the routine of seeing movies now that I'm back from the US.
This French flick is set in the future and tells of an area of Paris segregated from the rest of the city by a huge wall. Within that wall crime is rife and a man framed by a corrupt police force is partnered up with an elite cop to find and defuse a bomb that will mean an end to them all.

The plot is tosh to be honest but the action sequences more than make up for it. Mixing martial arts with parkour, or freerunning as its more commonly known the director has managed to put together a film with plenty of pace that can leave you breathless, and that's just from watching it.

If you like your action and can handle subtitles then you'll enjoy this.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Saw this last night - and throughly enjoyed it - as Malcolm says, it's about the action, the freerunning and the martial arts, not the (frankly basic) plot.

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