Brick Mansions

I like leaping and feats of incredible athletic prowess, and there was plenty there. Early in the movie is a great parkour chase with David Belle. Later in the movie another fabulous parkour scene. My favorite type of action.There were also car chases and fist fights that guys will enjoy.Lots of strong, beautiful young men.- Paul Walker, gorgeous. Surprised he was so athletic and could do flips. So sad we lost him.- David Belle. Although French, I could detect no French accent although it would only have added to the movie if he had had one. What an incredible athlete!!! His leaping moves and upper body strength, flexibility and agility amazing. One scene, where he approaches a combatant with fencer type steps - amazing. The coiled strength and control I could see in his body I have only seen in large cats.- Robert Maillet - GIANT! 6'10", 350 pounds. Perfectly proportioned. Amazing!- Marc-Andre Boulanger - 6'2", 225 pounds - great body. Work of art.All the male cast had impressive bodies.Lovely black actress, Ayisha Issa, cast in a demeaning role of a black woman prostitute. I do not like that stereotype of black women perpetuated. Ayisha is lovely and a good actress and deserves better roles.Cataline Denis plays a violent Hispanic woman. When I was growing up, unheard of for a woman to fight another woman. I hate those scenes. She is a good actress, but her character only a one dimensional unpleasant person.I do not like fighting or meanness, especially in women.Also, would prefer black men not to be portrayed as criminals.Forty years ago in the towns I lived in, white people expected black women to be prostitutes or on welfare, and black men to be thieves and criminals. I would prefer those stereotypes not to be perpetuated.

This film delivers great action sequences with a decent plot. If you're looking for a believable film full of realistic action and well developed characters, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a good paced film with great choreographed action sequences, fast paced fun, and a light heated approach, this film is what you want to see. It's a bit silly and unrealistic. It reminds me of movies like Crank or Transporter, unrealistic action but entertaining. No thinking is needed for this movie, sit back and enjoy this fun over the top action film.

This is a good movie, right up there with the original, but not reaching what made the original one of the best action movies ever. The action is a little better in this one, I think, and the original is just great all around. This is basically a shot for shot remake of the original while changing some things and making the action a lot cooler. I don't remember David Belle doing a lot of parkour in the original aside from the first scene. I watched this with hopes that they would add more parkour. I was not disappointed there. The weakest part of this movie comes from David Belle being French. I don't know if he know's English or not, or how well he does, but they decided to dub his lines. The dubbing is annoying, especially in the beginning scenes. Overall it is worth a watch, but don't choose one or the other. Either watch both, the original and this or just watch the Original.

It was a great movie. Nonstop action

Very lame remake of the French film District B13. District B13 is in every way superior to this, and this is clearly a Hollywood attempt to remake the identical story.....very lame. This film features one of the two actors from District 13, which is why I got it, but the other actor from District B13 is replaced by a lame Hollywood actor with no skills. In District B13 both characters Leto and Damien were awesome. In this film Leto is awesome and Damien is lame....super lame. And the villains aren't as cool as they were in the original either. I gave this 3 stars because the Leto actor is still the same guy and just as good. The original film featured incredible martial arts and parklor action...which both original actors were great at. In this film...first off they didn't bother changing the story at all....they just filmed the identical story with only one of the two original talented actors. They replaced Damien with someone with no physical abilities....making this movie quite literally half the movie the original was.If you haven't seen District B13, watch it. It's very good. This movie is exactly what I described above....skip it, and get the original.

Nice to see one of the 'late(passed) Paul Walker movies with other good actors

Leider der letzte Film von Paul Walker.Habe ihn schon mehrmals gesehen und ihn mir schlussendlich auch gekauft.-> In dem durch eine Mauer vom Rest der Stadt abgetrennten Ghetto Brick Mansions in Detroit, regieren Gewalt und Kriminalität. Drogenbaron Tremaine Alexander(gespielt von RZA) hat das Viertel fest im Griff, doch als er in den Besitz einer Massenvernichtungswaffe kommt, mit der er den Rest der Stadt erpresst, bekommt seine Macht eine neue Dimension. Um die Bombe zu entschärfen, wird Undercover-Cop Damien Collier (Paul Walker) der Auftrag erteilt, sich Zugang zu Tremaines Drogengang zu verschaffen.In meinen Augen ein gelungenes Remake von Ghettogangz.Finde die Parcours Szenen von David Belle sehr gelungen.Und ein Paul Walker geht doch natürlich immer :-)

Hatte gestern "endlich" den Film über "Lovefilm" bekommen und da ich Paul Walker (R.I.P.) einfach cool finde, hatte ich mich sehr auf den Film gefreut. Leider zu Unrecht! Dieser Film hat dermassene Logik-Fehler, dass er nicht mal für nen Kumpelabend geeignet ist, wo man sich z.B. gerne mal Expendables reinzieht ;-) ... klar, Expendables ist jetzt keine Logik-Referenz, will es aber auch nicht sein. Brick Mansions hingegen versucht auf hohem Niveau zu spielen und kann aber keine der gesetzten Erwartungen erfüllen.Sämtliche Schauspieler außer den 3 Hauptdarstellern sind größtenteils lustlos, dumpf und maximal auf B-Movie Niveau unterwegs.. Die meisten Gesichter habe ich nie zuvor gesehen und nach dem Film wusste ich warum...Wie schon in der Überschrift geschrieben, der einzige Lichtblick war ein sensationeller Song, den Walker in seinen CD Player schob, als er nach Hause kam. Dank "Shazam" gleich herausgefunden und sofort gekauft. Falls es noch jemandem aufgefallen ist: "The Heavy" heißt die Band und der Song "Short Change Hero".Fazit: ich wollte nicht spoilern deswegen blieb ich etwas inkonkret.. wer Paul Walker und Parcours gerne sieht und KEINE Ansprüche an eine schlüssige Handlung, gute darstellerische Leistung und ein sinnvolles Drehbuch hat, kann ihn sich leihen. Kaufen würde ich niemals!

Man sollte lieber "Ghetto Gangz" gucken. Die Schauspieler sind viel besser und außerdem gibt es auch noch einen 2.Teil, der sehenswert ist. David Belle steht bei Brick Mansions leider zu sehr im Schatten von Paul Walker.

A fun movie, but if you're expecting to be anywhere near as good as District B-13 then you're in for disappointment. If you're a fan of David Belle and Paul Walker it's nice to add to the collection.

Habe mir das Mediabook geholt und es ist auch in einem top zustand. Cooler actionfilm, in dem Paul Walker noch ein letztes mal beweist, was er drauf hat. Bonusmaterial ist auch in Ordnung.