I saw "Brick Mansions", starring Paul Walker-The Fast & Furious movies, Flags of Our Fathers; David Belle-The Family, Babylon A.D., and FYI, he is French and the founder of Parkour, which he uses extensively in the movie; RZA-The Man With the Iron Fists, Ghost Dog:The Way of the Samurai and Catalina Denis-a Columbian actress that was in Sleepless Night, Taxi 4.
This is an action movie that is based on a French film called District B13, which also had David in it, playing the same part that he plays here. This is also Paul's last fully completed performance in a movie-he was working on Fast & Furious 7 when he died in a car crash in November of 2013. Luc Besson-The Taken & the Transporter movies-is the writer. Anyway, Paul plays a policeman in Detroit in the not-too-distant future of 2018, where a bad part of town called Brick Mansions is sealed off from the rest of the city by a containment wall-sort of like in Escape From New York. It's to keep all the crime elements inside, away from the descent people living in Detroit. RZA plays a drug lord/crime boss that runs things in Brick Mansions and gets real dangerous when he gets his hands on a Neutron bomb. David plays a local resident in Brick Mansions that does not like RZA selling drugs in his neighborhood so he does a hit and run number on him-he steals the drugs from RZA and destroys them-using his Parkour to stay one step ahead of them. Catalina plays the girlfriend-that-gets-captured-and-used-against-the-hero part pretty well. There is not much new here, as far as the plot goes, but there are lots of car chases, lots of gun battles and lots of fantastic looking Parkour to keep you occupied for an hour and a half , so I enjoyed it. It's rated "PG-13" for violence, language and drug content and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes. It's a nice little action movie and I would buy it on Blu-Ray.
This is an action movie that is based on a French film called District B13, which also had David in it, playing the same part that he plays here. This is also Paul's last fully completed performance in a movie-he was working on Fast & Furious 7 when he died in a car crash in November of 2013. Luc Besson-The Taken & the Transporter movies-is the writer. Anyway, Paul plays a policeman in Detroit in the not-too-distant future of 2018, where a bad part of town called Brick Mansions is sealed off from the rest of the city by a containment wall-sort of like in Escape From New York. It's to keep all the crime elements inside, away from the descent people living in Detroit. RZA plays a drug lord/crime boss that runs things in Brick Mansions and gets real dangerous when he gets his hands on a Neutron bomb. David plays a local resident in Brick Mansions that does not like RZA selling drugs in his neighborhood so he does a hit and run number on him-he steals the drugs from RZA and destroys them-using his Parkour to stay one step ahead of them. Catalina plays the girlfriend-that-gets-captured-and-used-against-the-hero part pretty well. There is not much new here, as far as the plot goes, but there are lots of car chases, lots of gun battles and lots of fantastic looking Parkour to keep you occupied for an hour and a half , so I enjoyed it. It's rated "PG-13" for violence, language and drug content and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes. It's a nice little action movie and I would buy it on Blu-Ray.