District 13

A Superb Action Movie, 25 December 2009

Author: gary-444 from United Kingdom


Anyone bored with the formulaic dross currently coming out of Hollywood should look no further than "District 13".The action is original, and at 84 minutes the pace does not drop for a second.

The brains behind the story is Luc Besson whose screenplay for "Taken" was such a success. He also wrote for "Transporter" , for which Director Pierre Morel provided the Cinematography.Set marginally in a future ahead of when it was written, it envisages a lawless Paris, and a Nuclear Bomb which needs to be defused in the no-go area called District 13.

Incorporating stunning "free running" sequences it borrows from John Carpenter's "Escape From New York" but does it with a distinctive European style and flair.The characters are stereotypes, and the dialogue functional, but somehow it is thrown together with such energy, panache and chutzpah that it works in spades.A cult classic.