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Videogame Mentality: Action Post Card from Paris Self-Destructs

As with Spaghetti Westerns and sit-coms, you know they've jumped the shark when the tone turns to self-mockery. So it is that in one fell swoop John Travolta and suicide bombers have bid audiences their valediction.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-01-2010 |
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Tags: From Paris With Love, Pierre Morel
Kill Skills: 'Taken'new
In Taken, Liam Neeson kicks so much ass. How much? Well, imagine the exact amount of ass-kicking you think is enough, plus even more. Now double it.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-28-2009 |
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Escape from Parisnew
A new French import proves cinematic butt-kicking is a universal language.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
06-16-2006 |
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Plot With Explosions!new
The French have made an excellent action film. Who knew?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-15-2006 |
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Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel
Ass-Kicking en Francaisnew
District B13 is everything an unassuming genre picture should be -- fast, funny, unpretentious, possessed of a feisty political subtext, and primed at a moment's notice for megaton ass-kicking.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
06-14-2006 |
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Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel
Pol Vault
The movie, for all its gleeful violence, also packs a social conscience.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-02-2006 |
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Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel
Run Wild, Run Freenew
This French import is not big on plot exposition, instead focusing on its finely wrought action momentum, which moves ever forward with rushing exhilaration.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-02-2006 |
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Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel
French Connectionnew
France's District B13 delivers U.S.-style action.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-01-2006 |
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Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel