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District 13: Ultimatum
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Based on 19 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Sci-fi
Written by: Luc Besson
Directed by: Patrick Alessandrin
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 5, 2010
Running Time: 101 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Language(s): French
Summary
RATING: R for some violence, language and drug material
Starring David Belle, and Cyril Raffaelli
Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug dealing gangs and vicious killers. Despite government promises to maintain order, the state of the district has deteriorated, and a group of corrupt cops and elected officials are conspiring to cause civil unrest in D13, looking for an excuse to raze the area and cash in on its redevelopment. Now Damian and Leito must join forces again, and use their mastery of martial arts and their unique physical skills to bring peace to the neighborhood by any means necessary… before a proposed nuclear air-strike wipes it off the map. With bone crunching fights and death defying leaps, this adrenaline charged sequel takes the groundbreaking parkour action from District B13 to thrilling new heights. (Magnolia Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Daniel Eagan
Pitched cannily at World Beat fans as well as martial-arts zealots, this Luc Besson production aims to please and nails its targets with more speed and style than most of its higher-priced competition.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
With a thumping score and whirling cinematography, District 13: Ultimatum delivers two or three awesomely choreographed chase-and-fight-and-chase-and-fight-again sequences. The dialogue (in French, with subtitles) is not this movie's strength, nor should it be.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
It’s easy to call this film a video action game starring real people, but that “real” part means a lot.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
There’s no reason a conspiracy this outlandish should work twice. But it’s so hilariously within the realm of plausibility that it does.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This is a hot modern martial art. Not only do the shots look convincing, not only are they held long enough to allow us to see an entire action, but Belle in real life does a version of this stuff.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
Awesome, awesome action. Skimpy, skimpy plot.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
It’s pleasurable nonsense and another reminder that one of the great pulls of cinema is the spectacle of other bodies in blissful motion.
Read Full Review >Variety Jordan Mintzer
The fight sequences (choreographed by Raffaelli) are especially creative, with the combatants using any available object, including a priceless Van Gogh painting, to get the job done.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
This sequel to the French actioner "District B13" (2004) offers more of what made the original such a sublimely stupid pleasure.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
This time, with Besson scripting / producing and Patrick Alessandrin directing, it amounts to a raucous and colorfully junky helping of seconds.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Due in large part to its cultural relevance, this is also one of the few sequels that nearly succeeds in topping the original.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
The best Parisian action movie of the week is District 13: Ultimatum, a serviceable thriller with a lefty message.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
There's little difference between the first and second movies -- both written by Besson -- so the perfunctory story line will feel familiar to fans. But the action, and the head-spinning stunts of those agile lead actors, will never get old.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
It’s campier than its predecessor, but its gung ho union of black, white, and Asian gangs against reactionaries who’d destroy them is a virtuosic assertion of punky Parisian multiculturalism.
Read Full Review >Empire Phil Wilding
The dialogue and storyline are both a little on the clunky side, but the action excels.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
More of the same, only more. Yet here, “more” means a more needlessly convoluted plot, a more cartoonish parade of ethnic stereotypes, and more leaden political metaphor than viewers can digest.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Wade Major
Though it fails to live up to its dynamic predecessor in almost every way, District B13: Ultimatum should still be enough to satisfy the earlier film’s small but faithful core of American fans.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
