District 13 (2004)
French made action film, and when I watched with the English audio dubs (assuming action > audio) I realized that was a mistake, but not a major one. The English audio dubs aren't horrible, but they do distract you from the film. Not that the film is a masterwork that requires full attention - it is an action flick, first and foremost - and on that bill, it delivers pretty well. We have two main characters that are, to me, unknowns....but tey do their roles well, very well.
The storyline is a futuristic ghetto full of gangs, and the national gov't has walled it in. Someone decides to incite a war in order to justify blowing the place to dust and developing the land. Most of the film is about our two main characters (friends, but one is a cop on the outside, one is a guy on the inside of the ghetto) doing chase and fight scenes. The payoff is when the president is about to blow up the place for misguided reasons, and a 'superstud' from each gang has been recruited by our two friends to get into the presidential palace to stop it and break up the corrupt group behind this. There's a little more sotry in terms of framing one of our leads, but tbh, it gets weak devlopment which is a LOT more than the interesting characters pulled together from the gangs (who get a one line introduction, and about 10 seconds each in fight scenes at best
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
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So, bottom line. Action = YES (think Jackie Chan type athletic moves and choreography). Story = Meh. Characters = Meh. Filming = decent. Overall, if you are an action film junkie (ie, if you actually watched Transporter 2 or 3) you'll do well with this one.
**EDIT - HA! in finding the img for this post, I realized it was produced by the same guys who did the Transporter...lol. Fitting.
I love love love depressing movies. I wanna see this!
Am such a wet blanket- fogged up my 3D glasses the first time I saw this in the Cinema!! The Music Score is gorgeous! Dunno why I'm more liable to cry at Animations barely ever at Acted Movies with the Exception of the 'Elephant Man'-which my b/f found very Amusing at the time-then I punched him, and he got the message!
