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Monday, February 8, 2010

This Week in Film: District 13: Ultimatum

Posted by on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:11 PM

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Paul Constant says:

District 13—a French sci-fi film about a multicultural Parisian ghetto and the daring young men who will fight to save it—was a shockingly good potboiler. It's remembered as the film that popularized parkour (and seriously: Leave it to the French to turn running away into a martial art), and it was a huge international box-office success. And because producer/writer Luc Besson never conceived of a sequel he didn't like (see also: Transporter 3), the original District 13 gets a second installment.

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