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DISTRICT B-13
Sometime in the not-too-distant future the French have solved their crime problem. They've cordoned off the housing developments that were the breeding ground for immigrant rage and crime. But a cop and a crook join forces against a crime lord, as well as against a government plan for to set off a nuclear bomb in the slum. All of which is pretext for a movie written by Luc Bresson and directed by his favorite cameraman, Pierre Morel, which sets hero and anti-hero to flying about the blighted area in a series of spectacular chases. For the most part, they don't wires or CGI; their maneuvers are produced by camera and editing tricks. By the end of this shortish, sparely dialogued movie, they have effectively reinvented the action genre, creating an almost abstract cinema with graceful heart-stopping movement, which makes American action films look clumsy and oafish.
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