In the near
future a suburb of Paris is so rife with criminals that the authorities decide
to simply wall everybody in. After a while a nuclear bomb is lost there and is
up to our heroes to recover it.
It’s
incredible that it took so long for the first “Parkour” movie.
Parkour is
an incredibly cinematic discipline that, broadly speaking, teaches how to move
in an urban environment in the most rational and harmonious way. You should
really check the video, this stuff is so crazy that you have to see it to
really believe it.
Anyway, as
it’s always happening lately, we had to wait for the French, and in particular
Luc Besson who wrote and produced it. The plot is dumb but it’s the right type
of dumb and anyway when you tune in for Parkour the movie you really don’t need
a bad actor trying to convey his feelings, you need relentless action and this
is exactly what you get here.
The two
protagonists are portrayed by two stuntmen, one of them is actually David Belle
himself, the founder of the Parkour, and they are really perfect for the part.
This movie
came out in 2004 and it’s really a shame that didn’t have a very broad success
because as an old school action movie this is really good. Of course if you
prefer talking heads stay clear of this one but for everybody else this is
quite a ride.
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