Banlieue 13 (District B13)

Plot Summary: Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) is a member of the police elite task force. As a special intervention unit officer and expert in martial arts, he is a master in the field of infiltration, and well versed in successfully completing his operations through rapid, precise and often strong-arm actions.

This time, the government has assigned him the most extreme expedition of his entire career: a weapon of mass destruction has been stolen by the most powerful gang of District B13.

Assigned to infiltrate the sector to defuse the bomb, Damien must join hands with Leïto (David Belle), whose sole goal is to save his sister, fallen into the hands of the same gang. He is, moreover, the only one who knows District B13 like the back of his hand.

But the story is not so simple. Who exactly works for who? Where are those who really pull the strings hiding? And who would really profit from this bomb?

The movie came out in France in 2004. Magnolias pictures is going to be releasing it very very limitedly in theaters in America and then on DVD in September. I was able to see a subd version last night and thought the action was pretty remarkable.

http://promo.magpictures.com/districtb13/Trailer/DistrictB13Large.mov
there is a link to a trailer for it.

its from the prodcers of Ong Bak and Transporter 2.. now id foccus more on ong bak than transporter. The movie isnt gonna blow anyone away with the story but the action scenes make it well worth it.

I watched it this morning and thought it was cool. Dialogue was pretty blaise, and the story has been done to death, but it was fun. Had a lot of "Fast and the Furious meets Ong Bak" to it.

Enjoyable and short, but probably not worth watching more than once, IMO.

Double post, sorry.

Haven't seen it yet.. Will be watching it soon though.

I think I looks pretty cool.

The dvd is waiting on my shelf, seen a few clips as I was looking at the dvd and it looksssssss fun.

Originally posted by C-Dic
Had a lot of "Fast and the Furious meets Ong Bak" to it.

Enjoyable and short, but probably not worth watching more than once, IMO.

I watched it this morning.. And I agree with you.. the chase scenes in it I thought were really cool like Ong Bak.

I enjoyed it... Apart from it being dubbed which annoyed me.. I thought It was pretty cool.

Urgh, dubbing, did it not come with a sub title option...

Originally posted by MildPossession
Urgh, dubbing, did it not come with a sub title option...

I believe it does.. but a friend of mine lent it to me and it was the dubbed version.

when exactly, in september, is it due out

It should be out I think..

It came out in the U.S. this last tuesday, (9/5). I picked it up it is pretty impressive. For those of you who haven't seen it check out youtube there are a ton of cool chase and fight scene clips.

It was actually an enjoyable movie. Though..you have to watch it in French. The English dub is just...terrible.