Brick Mansions [ April 2014 (France) ]

Brick Mansions [ April 2014 (France) ]

     

                                   [ Action | Crime | Drama]

The cast include Paul Walker and David Belle

One of Paul Walker‘s final movies before his death last year.

 Titled"Paul Walker's final film".

SHORT SUMMARY:DIRECTOR

An undercover cop tries to take down a ruthless crime lord with access to a neutron bomb by infiltrating his gang.

DIRECTOR           :

Camille Delamarre

SCRIPTWRITERS : Luc Besson (screenplay), Bibi Naceri (screenplay)

Brick Mansions is an upcoming film directed by Camille Delamarre and written by Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen and Bibi Naceri. It is the remake of 2004 French action film District 13. This is one of Paul Walker's final film roles before his death on November 30, 2013. The film is scheduled to be released on April28, 2014.A Detroit police officer goes under cover with a gang that has access to a weapon of mass destruction in the new thriller 'Brick Mansions.' VPCIn a dystopian Detroit, abandoned brick mansions left from better times now house only the most dangerous criminals. Unable to control the crime, the police constructed a colossal containment wall around this area to protect the rest of the city. For undercover cop Damien Collier (Paul Walker) every day is a battle against corruption. For Lino (David Belle), every day is a fight to live an honest life. Their paths never should have crossed, but when drug kingpin, Tremaine (RZA) kidnaps Lino's girlfriend, Damien reluctantly accepts the help of the fearless ex-convict, and together they must stop a sinister plot to devastate the entire city. With stylized action featuring thrilling Parkour stunts (David Belle is the co-founder of this physical training discipline), "Brick Mansions" puts an entertaining twist on the action genre. 

PRODUCTION:

Filming began on April 30, 2013 and the film is set to be released in 2014 by EuropaCorp. Distribution will be by Relativity Media Following Walker's death, US release is scheduled for February and French release for April 23. On February 6, 2014 Relativity and EuropaCorp announced April 25, 2014 as a release date and they’ll also pay all the cost of the film’s world premiere.

Watch the Trailer:

Trailer 1:

Trailer 2: Trailer 3: Cast Credited cast, sorted by RULEDEWORD Star Database :
	Paul Walker	...	Damien
	Robert Maillet	...	Yeti
	RZA	...	Tremaine
	David Belle	...	Lino
	Kalinka Petrie	...	Mayor's assistant
	Carlo Rota	...	George The Greek
	Catalina Denis	...	Lola
	Ayisha Issa	...	Rayzah
	Bruce Ramsay	...	Mayor
	Andreas Apergis	...	Berringer
	Kwasi Songui	...	Big Cecil
	Gouchy Boy	...	K2
	Jade Hassouné	...	Peter
	Tristan D. Lalla	...	Thug
	Carolina Bartczak	...	Clara

The Heat [2013]

The Heat[2013]

Comedy / Crime / Thriller

The Heat[2013]

In a summer movie season that's been light with women in major roles, a Melissa McCarthy-Sandra Bullock buddy-cop comedy sounds like a welcome change of pace. Add in the fact that this movie is Paul Feig's follow-up to Bridesmaids, and you have something especially interesting.

Paying homage to its genre roots, The Heat opens with a bouncy '70s-cop-show credit sequence, and follows it by twice mastering the vanishing art of the efficient character introduction; in just a few short minutes, it proves itself as deft as even the likes of Lethal Weapon at nailing down exactly who these two wildly different characters are.Well, not to overstate things, but every other comedy this summerhad better watch out. Because The Heat? Is on.

The Heat[2013]

Bullock plays FBI agent Sarah Ashburn, a straitlaced professional who schools every other agent at the scene of a drug bust, and is the only one surprised when her boss (Demian Bichir) delays a possible promotion, pointing out that basically no one likes her. Good at her job to the point of arrogance, Ashburn needs to prove she can play well with others, so she's sent to Boston to work a case involving a drug cartel run by a shadowy figure known only as Larkin.

McCarthy's introduction as Boston detective Shannon Mullins is bigger and louder, involves both the unorthodox arrest of a john (Tony Hale, one of quite a few comedic talents in the movie) and the pursuit of a small-time dealer named Rojas (actor-comic Spoken Reasons), who's got a possible connection to Larkin. There's a manic joy in Mullins' eye as she pursues Rojas in her junker of a car — while he runs from her on foot.

In short, while Ashburn takes pride in a by-the-book job, Mullins just loves catching bad guys — and she does it well, book be damned. You can imagine how much she enjoys learning that the FBI, in the tight-lipped person of Ashburn, is muscling in on her case.

That's that for the basic setup of the average odd-couple buddy-cop actioner, and The Heatfollows the genre's basic formula from combustible conflict through mutual respect and on to eventual friendship — only it tops pretty much every beat in that familiar plot outline with memorably ludicrous gags.

                            The Heat[2013]

The one thing they do share — a keen sense of competition — results in a surprising (and welcome) number of physical-comedy bits large and small; witness a scene in which they each try their own approach to interrogation, or the small moment where they both try to make it into a suspect's building at once.Writer Katie Dippold doesn't rest on the broad strokes of Ashburn and Mullins' contrasting personalities, instead going further to mine how differently they dress, think and speak for comedy. (Ashburn more than once confuses Mullins for long-haired, bearded men, though given the cheerful slovenliness of McCarthy's characterization, it's an almost understandable mistake.)

 

McCarthy and Bullock's divergent comedy styles are so suited to their respective characters that they could easily expand a Heat franchise to star in their own solo vehicles. Unlike McCarthy's role in the forgettable Identity Thief earlier this year, Mullins allows McCarthy to confidently flex all of her weird comedy muscles, whether she's verbally emasculating her precinct captain or finding another reason to draw her gun. (Mullins might be the most reckless movie cop in recent memory when it comes to firearms.)

 

Bullock's style is more technical, but she's more than game to play, and their mutual generosity as performers makes for a gratifying chemistry that amplifies the already smartly written jokes. When McCarthy and Bullock start downing shots in an epic drinking sequence, remember that you're watching an Oscar nominee and an Oscar winner — and yes, they're performing at the top of their game.

 

The plot is structured to facilitate bits like these, and if the movie were merely a vehicle conceived to let its stars bicker, bond and kick endless quantities of ass, it would be enough. But The Heat goes above and beyond, managing to sneak in an emotional core. Mullins cares about protecting her neighborhood and family, including her brother Jason (Michael Rapaport), who's recently out of prison and may have another link to Larkin. And as Ashburn and Mullins increasingly encounter real danger in the pursuit of their target, Feig makes the challenge of balancing side-by-side sentiment and irreverence look easy.

 

If The Heat is about more than being a well-oiled delivery system for impressive and effective comedy, it's in part about what it means to be a good cop — including the question of how gender does or doesn't factor into that. The challenges of being a female Five-0 on a male-dominated force are implicit from the beginning, but they're made plainer still when Mullins and Ashburn encounter a rival pair of DEA agents, one apparently harmless but the other a blatant sexist who wants the ladies off the case.

 

Spoiler alert: It doesn't happen. The Heat come, they conquer, and they leave you laughing.(Recommended)

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