2004 · action · thriller · parkour
District 13
Directed by Pierre Morel1h 24m2004
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Our read: District 13 (2004) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · parkour entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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