Mike's Review: I thought this movie was going to be a good action movie with some great fight scenes with David Belle doing his famous style of fighting of Parkour and I was right...Only I saw this movie almost 10 years ago in 2004. That's right this movie is almost an EXACT copy of a little known movie that came out in 2004 and was called District B13. And the funny thing is even David Belle is playing the same character he did in District B13, except they changed his name.
This movie wasn't even trying to pretend to be a remake, they changed the actors and moved it from the slums of Paris to the slums of Detroit but almost scene for scene this movie was a copy.
I hate to say it but District B13 I thought was a better movie in every way and that was from seeing it 10 years ago with basically a cast of people no one knew. It was good to see Paul Walker on the big screen doing his comic relief, but Cyril Raffaelli the actor who played his role in District B13 was much better at the action and fighting scenes.
District B13 is the better version of this movie.
Best Scene: There were a ton of great scenes in District B13, but seeing them copied and toned down to a PG-13 rating killed it for me in this copied movie.
Mike's Rating: Don't bother with this one. See the real one...District B13 if you want to see a good movie.
Bean's Review: Amazingly, not too bad of a movie. It had more
of a plot than I was expecting, a lot less killing and did not drag.
Watching David Belle perform Parkour was captivating. However, if
Paul Walker was not in the movie, this would be
a much different review, as without Walker’s talent, the movie would
not have been worth watching. Walker was very entertaining and provided
some comic relief. I also thought that RZA, whom I am not familiar
with, also contributed a worthwhile acting job
to the plot. Although his character was the “bad guy” of the movie, he
was not “evil” and refused to mass murder the population of Detroit.
Whereas, on the other hand, the Mayor of Detroit, supposedly the “good
guy”, was actually the EVIL one, as he was
willing to kill everyone in the Mansion district.
Best scene: when Lola had Rayza, a true evil person, in a head lock with her legs and dropped her over the ledge of the building
Bean’s Rating: matinee – great stunts
A.C.'s Review: Currently
playing to (unfortunately) nearly empty theaters in BRICK MANSIONS…the
last fully completed film done by Paul Walker before his tragic passing.
This remake of a French films depicts
the exploits of a tenacious undercover cop out to end the drug trade in
a Detroit of the near future that has had its low income section of the
city walled off to prevent the rampant crime there from spreading into
the city at large. Walker the cop is paired
with a French Caribbean immigrant Mansion resident out to achieve the
same goal but instead of using a badge and a gun he applies his
acrobatic skills to fight the bad guys and get himself out of sticky
situations.
Ultimately the pair come together when a threat emerges that puts millions of people’s lives at stake.
All
and all its really a popcorn movie filled with some good fights,
awesome cars, lots of stunts, some great fights including a cat fight
between the bad guys female hench woman and the
French guys ex-girlfriend. Some elements momentarily threw me such as
the appearance of a Neutron Bomb-the likes of which no one has talked
about since Jimmy Carter was in office. Then I realized that a real
estate scheme was afoot that would have warmed
the heart of Lex Luthor from 1978’s SUPERMAN THE MOVIE. Anyway It is
what it is…and I imagine without Paul Walker as the star this would
easily have been a straight to video release in your nearest Red Box.
Best Scene: The French guy out running an army of thugs early in the movie.
A.C.'s Rating: Matinee
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