District B13

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This movie shows us that not only Asia and America can make amazing action movies. If you look at how many times the actors had a real role before, you really going to appreciate what they did! Look at some of Besson's other movies, like Taxi (1,2&3), the Transporter (1&2), and you will see that the director of this movie did a really good thing! It's Cyrils first real movie, before this he did commercials! Crimson rivers (1&2), Taxi (1,2&3) Transporter (1&2) and Ronin are all in my collection, but Banlieue 13 is far the best of it! Make sure you have a seat because this movie puts you're ass down for the entire 80 minutes. At the beginning of Jackass they always say "Don't try this at home" but I'm sure that there will be people try to Parkours them self!

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Thrilling and violent movie with a phenomenal starring pair and in which Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle cast all the Stuntmen themselves . Set in the rundown ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb . When the government learns that local kingpin (Larbi or Bibi Narceri , Sami Narceri's brother ; even though Bibi Naceri co-wrote the script, he still had to audition for the part of Taha along with other actors) has acquired a nuclear weapon , Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) and Leito (David Belle , the originator of Le Parkour ) are called upon to avoid an atomic bomb on destroying the blocks at the heart of District 13 with tactical precision and as save the city . With acrobatic skillfulness and adrenaline pumping belief in their own abilities, they throw themselves out from incredible heights, and jump from roof to roof ; locked doors and 'No Trespassing' signs become irresistible challenges . They confront their enemies in order to find out location the bomb (the bomb code is: 9293709B13) and his sister (Dany Verissimo who spent two whole days on a roof in the freezing cold in ripped clothes, handcuffed to a bomb and Luc Besson wrote the part of Lola specifically for her) who was formerly kidnapped , but someone is still after them and are forced to once again take up violent means to survive . ¨13th District¨ is an exciting film that contains suspense , thrills, noisy action , shootouts and violent fights . The main couple is unabashed in its dedication to fanboy stunt work . From the beginning to the final the noisy action and fast movement is unstopped , including breathtaking scenes in which bounds and leaps through apartments blocks and at moments give the impression that they are flying . Cyril Raffaelli as a hard-rock , two-fisted agent is top-notch . This is a frantic rehash of ¨Escape from NY¨ , rightly realized in French style . The highlights of the movie are The Parkour , also known in USA as Free Running whose origin was in ¨Yamasaki¨ film directed by Ariel Zeitoun , Julien Seri and also produced by Luc Besson with his production company called ¨EuropaCorps¨ . Duo protagonist more than make up for in an skill to soar across a rolling medley highrise flats blocks . The way in which the actors prove this abilities , is in fact an activity called Parkour and was invented by David Belle himself , influenced by his father Raymond Belle . Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle had three months to prepare all their Parkour stunts for the film . There weren't any special effects , wire-work, computer graphics... used in 90% of the Parkour scenes . Good cinematography by cameraman Manuel Teran using Steadicam and zooms with numerous locations from Paris slums . The musician Da Octopuss creates a stirring, moving soundtrack fitting to frantic action . Lavishly produced by the successful French producer and director Luc Besson . The flick was stunningly realized by the habitual cameraman, Pierre Morel in his first film, -the second was the successful ¨Taken¨- , though Alexandre Aja was originally hired to direct the movie the first . Filmmaker Pierre gives the action a dance-like quality and the whole movie took 10 months for production , idea, script, casting, filming, etc , as from January 2004 to October 2004 . Followed by "District 13: Ultimatum" by Patrick Alessandrin again with Cyril Raffaelli as Capt. Damien Tomaso , David Belle as Leïto , Philippe Torreton as Le Président De la République and as well as starring in the film, Cyril Raffaelli also choreographed all the fight sequences ; however David Belle didn't practice all his Parkour stunts , most of the ones that you see in the film were of him performing the stunt for the first time . Rating: Better than average, well worth seeing , this is a highly agreeable action movie . The picture will appeal to explosive action fans

This is probably one of the biggest wastes of celluloid for 2005. Though the film runs only a scant 72 or 73 minutes minus end credits this film feels like an eternity. Set in 2020 the film is set in a Paris thats had its bad neighborhoods walled off from the rest of the city (don't think about it it makes no sense). The main plot, which doesn't kick in until about half way through the running time has a good hearted criminal teaming up with a cop to stop a stolen atomic bomb from going off, since it was designed so that if its tampered with it goes off. Oh course you know its been tampered with and its due to go off in a matter of hours. Illogical? Yup. Most of this movie makes no sense. Almost everything about this movie makes zero sense. If the movie is 70 minutes long, why spend half of it just doing character introduction? Why are parts of the walled city beautiful and parts run down? Why cut services yet give police protection? I've got about 900 questions about the world the film is in, never mind the character motivations. (A few questions on that subject...Why does Lola try to start a fire? Where are Leito's men? Why does the bad guy suddenly turn into a coke fiend?) Its bad the attempt at a plot is just awful and would put Ed Wood to shame. On the other hand there are some kick ass characters and performances. The two male leads are fantastic. The character of Lola and the girl who plays her have for ever erased Natalie Portman in my mind as the kick ass teen of all time. I only wish that Luc Besson and his team had come up with something for them to do that wasn't yawn inducing. The film also has some incredible action sequences (mostly in the the first 20 minutes). Most of them are hand to hand and are absolutely dynamite. They are wonderfully spectacular and "WOW" inducing. The problem is that they get lost since there is nothing to connect them to each other.Time and time again as I said "WOW" I had the additional feeling that this would be so much better if this wasn't happening in a vacuum. If you must see this wait for cable.