Brick Mansions is an action flick staring Paul Walker and David Belle. The movie revolves around and interesting premise being that and undercover cop and an excon pair up together to take down a crime lord. That being said this movie is a remake. There are many underwhelming aspects of this film and it really struggles to provide any substance for viewers. The acting is poor for the most part although Walker is decent as a cop. The fight sequences and the scripting is cringe worthy and it displays a prime example of the template of a mindless action movie. There is very few character development if not none throughout the film as most of its scenes are action oriented. The movie is set in a dystopia and showcases that theme effectively to an extent but you never feel as though you are getting a grand scope of the world it is set place in. For all I could tell there were just corrupt cops and rampant crime rates in the city of Brick Mansions. Overall poor film, would not recommend seeing it.3/10

Though this movie has its share of action and bad guys vs. good guys fist fights and gunshots, I have to admit I watched it for the sake of the late actor Paul Walker.Too bad an action hero whose "Fast and Furious" franchise is known about as well as other fare (*spoiler* let's say Rachael Leigh Cook's character of Laney Boggs gave him an ear injury in "She's all That"... hem ?) left us so fast, but letting us appreciate at least another try in an action film shot in my hometown of Montreal (passing for Detroit).For the rest, I heard it's a remake of a French movie, but had its share of violence all over. But not as bad, rather entertaining at least. Enjoy rather than taking it too seriously. After all, just wondering how improbable you can survive all the physical pursuits in there and avoiding the gunshots...For the rest, this is mostly Luc Besson's fare...RIP Paul Walker, thanks for the memories of a 2000s action hero !

District 13 is a great movie! This is a wannabe copy. I don't mind copying movies to reach a broader audience, but somehow this movie fails to capture the details that made the original movie great.The beginning scene where Belle escapes had less wow-factor than D13, and the music was way off. The scene was ruined. This is occurring throughout the movie.It might be the director, I won't point fingers, but D13 director also made Taken, the director of Brick Mansion made Taken 2, just saying.It should be mentioned that the acting is way off too. The main villain is good, the mains (Belle, Walker) are decent, but so many of the side characters horribly acted. Without exaggeration I have seen student films with way better acting.In short: Avoid at all cost if you can bear subtitles/know french ;)

OK everyone repeat with me ... "NO MORE SUPER SHAKY GRAINY CAM". This is nothing but a cheap way to try and do action scenes and it takes us back almost 100 years in technical expertise and film making.The only thing worse is the fake confetti explosions.What are they doing, making these films 8 frames a second digitally so there is less detail and easier to hide mistakes? The action scenes no longer have to be acted out because they are so shaky and grainy you can't see anything and only get a headache.Old Godzilla films are far more professional looking.If this is to be stopped we all need to make a big stink about it.