When it reached American audiences two years after it opened in France, 2006’s District 13 (or B13 here) served as a breezy introduction to the art of parkour, not to mention director Pierre Morel’s knack for shooting action sequences both energetically and visibly (an underrated quality, that last one). Morel moved on to Taken, though, while parkour began to infiltrate more high-profile Hollywood fare, like Casino Royale and Live Free or Die Hard.
However, writer/producer/all-around action maven Luc Besson stuck around to cash in on the promise of a follow-up, and now we’re greeted with District 13: Ultimatum, a competent if flabby rehash of the first film’s race-against-time plot and dystopian setting.
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