Brick Mansions

An undercover police officer, with the help of an escape convict, is sent into a ghetto-turned-war-zone neighborhood in downtown Detroit to defuse a stolen nuclear bomb and bring down the local War Lord.


So this movie wasn’t great but it was greatly entertaining. The dialogue is horrid and on the nose, and the plot is predictable but it was so fun to watch. As a shameless fan of Paul Walker, I will openly admit that I love watching anything he is in. The man is just ever so dreamy. Granted this film is a remake of the French film District 13 – and frankly it’s probably not as good as the original and perhaps was made to go straight to video. Nevertheless, it is chalk full of my favorite eye candy, things that blow up and lots of fight scenes that include that parkour jumping stuff. (Yes that is my official term and I am sticking to it.)

This movie is totally forgettable, poorly edited, and again extremely predictable, but like my father before me and his ridiculous Steven Segal movies, Paul Walker is a guilty pleasure and I loved it.



*** MUST SEE

Rated PG-13 (for violence and language)