the breezy French action thriller "District B13"

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Everything H-wood action crappers should be and aren't -- fast, unpretentious, 83 minutes, and with two leads who are stratospherically sexier than Cruise-Bloomps automatons (esp David Belle, who certainly IS). Co-written by Luc Besson.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

my friend's movie is playing before this in selected spots (i don't know which ones) around the US!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

ah, we almost never get shorts in NYC.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was alright. It made no goddamn sense at all, but since when has that been a requirement for kungfu movies? The main thing is they filmed the freerunning and big fat ogre fight pretty well.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I liked this quite a bit, actuallly. But didn't it come out well over a year ago.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

it was a ton of fun, but they set up the action sequences badly. it opens with that jaw-dropping chase scene, moves onto the stellar drug bust shootout, and then there's like half an hour of not very much which leads you to believe the finale is going give you a heart attack. but then the final action sequence is kind of paltry, leaving you feeling let down.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

nitpickers!

This opened in NYC about 3 weeks ago, I'm sure the Euro release was '04 tho.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I liked it a lot (although nothing was quite as exciting as the initial opening tenement chase--which admittedly was one of the best sequences I've seen in ages so it was a high bar.) I hope that Besson keeps churning these out.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

This opened in NYC about 3 weeks ago

For real? It was playing in PODUNKVILLE SASKATCHEWAN like 2 months ago!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

You must have fewer French boycotters there.

Alex, have you been doing 'Parkour' all over SF?

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0628,tudor,73803,15.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1939867.stm

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh this makes me want to see the new James Bond movie!

I have! I leaped over a gigantic unidentifiable smear on the pavement yesterday!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

dr morbius and I agree about this film

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

need to put this on the amazon wishlist

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Tom, we should co-star in the inevitable US remake.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that makes me the overzealous cop

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am too old to do parkour. I can't vault over those 15-inch concrete barricades in D.C.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

we can rewrite your part to be more like the friendly gendarme from The Transporter

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

OH YAY I LOVED THIS MOV. We will RESCREEN it soon.

― Laurel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm none of those parkour docs are available on Nflix. Bummerz.

― Laurel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

i am watching it RIGHT NOW

― gbx, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 04:24 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

A sequel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjPyBpSKDk

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:34 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA3u9NLEwEo&feature=related

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

You know I will move heaven and earth and my neighborhood drug dealers and their hopped-up street racing cars to see this.

― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

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