When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From the fertile imagination of Luc Besson comes District B13, an energetic sci-fi thrill ride ...

The latest trend in Hollywood (outside of remake, prequels and sequels) finds studios latching on to a foreign action thriller – The Raid, Sleepless Night – and producing an American version. The same ...

Running time: 85 minutes. In French with English subtitles. Rated R (violence, profanity). At the Empire, the 84th St., the Angelika, others. A Gallic guilty pleasure, Pierre Morel’s “District B13” is ...

The greedy French ruling class gets a good thrashing in District 13: Ultimatum, a gravity-taunting sequel to Pierre Morel's 2004 actioner District B13. But as anyone who saw the first movie would ...

Action movie fans are in for a treat this month, as one of the most underrated examples of the genre (and one helmed by Taken ...

Given that it not only covers the same narrative ground as the hyperkinetic 2004 French actioner “District B13,” but even borrows one of that film’s stars — the amazingly nimble, frequently shirtless ...

Back in 2004 the French action film “District B13” officially introduced audiences to the breathtaking art/sport of Parkour or free running. Now the film has spawned a sequel, “District B13 Ultimatum” ...

With his trashily enjoyable ghetto exploitation thriller District B13, writer-producer Luc Besson shrewdly tapped into two cultural phenomena simultaneously: The powder keg of ethnic minorities ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Paris suburbs, writer-producer Luc Besson lobs another Molotov cocktail at the screen with "District B13: Ultimatum." Just when you thought it was ...

Much to the likely chagrin of studio execs, I first saw a clip of the film District B13 on a bootleg video tape about six months ago. Although studios may claim that such distribution destroys films ...