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Brick Mansions is an action film France-Canada with the participation of actor Paul Walker. The context of the film is in a deserted mansion in the swamps Detroit, where the most dangerous criminals in hiding. Unable to control criminals, police have built a giant picture around the area to protect the rest of the city. Damien Collier undercover cop (Paul Walker) determines to find out who killed his father and demands justice in the fight against corruption. As for the former prisoners Lino (David Belle), every day is a struggle to find an honest man in himself. Both two seemingly deadlocked until the drug lords Tremaine (RZA) kidnapped girlfriend Lino, Damien reluctantly accepts help Lino and together they fight to prevent an extremely sinister plot - destroy the whole city with a bomb.
It's fun to see Walker do a double take at a perilous move of Belle's and then find a less risky alternative. The pair seem like they're having a good time in this buddy action movie. It seems a fitting curtain call for a likable actor gone too soon.
Follows the bog-standard formula perfected by Besson: combining functional storylining with competent action highlights and an occasional air of whimsy.
Brick Mansions is a non-starter: It chokes on its déjà vu, the hyperactive Mixmaster editing is exhausting and the characters' banter is so leaden it might violate federal emission standards.
Favouring vitality over originality, this needless remake of District 13 comes with fleet-footed sequences but plenty of stumbles, and strains far too hard to be 'cool'.
This is ultimately a movie about class warfare and social oppression that isn't remotely science-fictional. It's real, and as dumb as this remake is, it sends you home thinking.