The mad
French parkour masters are back!
Strangely
in the five years following 2004 District 13 nobody followed his lead and so to
get another dose of parkour acrobatic we had to wait for the sequel.
The answer
to the obvious question “Does it live up to the first movie legacy?” sadly is a
resounding no. It’s not a bad effort but it was misconceived from the
beginning.
The plot is
stupid but this is not the real problem, we don’t expect the plot for a parkour
movie to be any intelligent. The real problem is that the plot is not really
very fun, it’s like a strange mutant version of “The warriors” were the various
gangs, all good guys, are presented as real bad asses but somehow they never do
a lot. An inordinate amount of time is spent on the French president, played by
a serious French actor, Philippe Torreton, who, according to the extras, always
wanted to be in an action movie, just to drag it down with inane gravitas I
would like to add.
The two
heroes from the first one, Cyril Raffaelli and parkour god David Belle, are
back. They choreographed personally the stunts and all the action scenes
bringing in their usual level of cheerful insanity but it just doesn’t manage
to get to the next level. The inane plot robs it of every sense of urgency and
an extremely clean cinematography made every action feel very detached.
It’s still
a good action movie, with incredible stunts that are way above most of the CGI
and cable enhanced stuff that Hollywood feed us every day, but it clearly fails
prey to the sequel law of diminishing returns.
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