Action Hyperactive

District B-13 (3.5/5 stars)

If you're in the mood for a pure, adrenaline filled action movie this is probably a good bet for you. It is quite intense, fast-paced, full of sequences bordering on the completely ridiculous, but nevertheless quite fun.

The plot, while not that imporant really, is this: it is the year 2010, crime has gotten so bad in one area of Paris that they literally wall in a portion of the city. Crime flourishes. Some good people, however, remain in the area. One of those people ends up teaming up with a police officer to disarm a stolen nuclear bomb set to go off in 24 hours.

The movie seems like a regular action movie on Ritalin. It does not really bother to pause for the bad character development and contrivances that you might expect. It just tries to blow you away. The stunts the two main characters perform are so rapid and insane that the audience literally laughed (not like it was bad, like "oh WOW" I suppose) because of the insanity of it all. I seriously am amazed at how they even managed to pull off some of the tricks; in one towards the beginning of the movie a guy literally flies at top speed through a narrow window above a door and it doesn't seem even remotely possible that any human being could do it.

The one thing that prevents it from being better is that it just doesn't have ANY substance, it is pure candy, kind of like watching a 90 minute long music video with a lot of fighting and chase sequences instead of musicians. Not bad though if you go for that sort of thing.