No need for CGI when you've got sweet moves, fast feet and a bottomless hoard of adrenaline.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2010

Mission accomplie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2010

This sequel to the French actioner District B13 (2004) offers more of what made the original such a sublimely stupid pleasure.

| Feb 25, 2010

If anyone is going to persuade fanboys to attend a movie with French subtitles, that man is Luc Besson.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2010

This is the first action movie in which bombs serve a humanitarian end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2010

This tale of conspiracy and corruption, directed with adrenalized pleasure by Patrick Alessandrin and written by a reinvigorated Luc Besson, has a brain.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2010

It's easy to call this film a video action game starring real people, but that "real" part means a lot. I'd rather see a world-class martial artist like Raffaelli do his thing instead of a CGI simulacrum.

| Original Score: B | Feb 12, 2010

The whole thing is nothing more than visual candy, and while that doesn't make the finished product all that filling once consumed going down I have to admit the darn thing is really quite tasty.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2010

Raffaeli and Belle still lack the charm that would make their tight-lipped line deliveries memorable, but they still run, kick and hop around like nobody's business.

| Feb 10, 2010

Approaches politics like an Axe commercial. Like a cocky 14-year-old, it's all bluster when we want grownup charm and menace.

| Original Score: C | Feb 5, 2010

There's little difference between the first and second movies so the perfunctory story line will feel familiar to fans. But the action, and the head-spinning stunts of those agile lead actors, will never get old.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2010

Simply put, if you're wearing a uniform in this movie, you're going to get hammered. And you're going to be too dumb to just draw your pistol and shoot one of the stars.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 5, 2010

The plot is ludicrous but one doesn't go to Luc Besson action films for character-driven storytelling; they go for exactly what this film promises and delivers -- frenetic, inspired, grin-inducing action.

| Feb 5, 2010

Luc Besson's script marries his B-movie sensibility with appropriately sophomoric political grandstanding...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 5, 2010

Pleasurable nonsense and another reminder that one of the great pulls of cinema is the spectacle of bodies in blissful motion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2010

It amounts to a raucous and colorfully junky helping of seconds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2010

Besson's philosophy of breakneck action and spectacular set pieces guides the brilliant blend of physical stunts and cartoon conception of a walled-in slum on the fringes of a near-future Paris.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2010

Roof-hopping, check. Banister-leaping, mais, oui.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2010

District B13 begged for a cash-in sequel, and Besson certainly isn't above providing one.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 4, 2010