District 13 Reviews

Viva la Pakour

WOW WOW WOW WOW.

Forget your van Damne, forget dare I say it Jackie Chan and forget even Ong Bak.

The action in this film is amazing in particular the opening chase and the casino scene. Even the fight scenes are well crafted.

If you admired the wacky French PAkour boys (BBC did the advert of the guy getting home to watch telly) jumping and flying then check this out.

Don't bother with the crap English dubbing stick with the french language and subtitles. Sit back and enjoy

Woah!

I rented this with no expectations, and was totally blown away by the action. This is a seriously entertaining film for those who like their action fast and brutal. As with most actions movies though, don't expect anything above average acting and plot (which is a cheap rip-off of Escape From New York) - this film's about jumping, falling, hitting and being hit.

The two main leads do their own stunts (from what I could gather from the DVD extra features) and their background in parkour and martial arts shines through. This really is up there with Ong Bak and Project A as a classic stunt flick.

Recommended!

[Highly rated reviewer]

totally awesome

best in ages , see this now

Cracking movie

Made me want to jump out of my window (luckily I live on the ground floor) but only 'cos the live action stunts are so cool they'd inspire anyone to try parkour. With an unknown cast of fresh faces and energetic actors, the plot of this film may put you mind of 'Escape from New York', but that's no bad thing. French action film that delivers plenty of 'on the edge' thrills

OMG, dull......

Managed about 30 minutes of this dire film. Parkour chase is really great, but the acting is a wooden as it gets and the english dubbibg is the worst I have seen.

pure wensleydale

I thought transporter 2 was, well, a bit poo. This manages to run it very close as one of the worst films i have ever seen. Plenty of dire acting and dialogue (dubbed version) but the worst part by far was the stupid action scenes. We can find considerably more entertaing urban gymnastics on google video without having to be subjected to a most dreadful and cheesy storyline.

To b generous I have given it 1 star for the chavtastic scooby, that brings a whole new meaning to the term 'bulletproof'.

Short Sharp Shock

Brilliant stunts from the Parkour lot, jumping impossible jumps, walking up walls, escaping through frightenningly small holes. Well worth watching just to watch these guys perform.

Awful

Ok, the parkour sequence is very good. But the rest of the film is so tragically cr@p it really doesn't matter. Avoid!

One of the nice action movie from Luc Besson

I don`t know why but the movie seems to be from 2004 but the action and effects are very good and I can say i remain impressed about this movie.I enjoyed and I can recomand this movie for who want to see a real action movie.Who liked The Transporter 1 and 2 can have a ideea how it is.The casting is not really special but the acting very good.Enjoy!!!

Absolute rubbish

From the moment go this movie bored me. it has a lame story. looked as if it was made with avery low budget. Terrible acting and sorry i chose it as i could have watched something much better! Don't waste your time.