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Brick Mansions (2014)

Brick Mansions poster
Directed by
Camille Delamarre
Genre
drama film, action film, crime film, thriller film, dystopian film
Country
France, Canada
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 1,623 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a near-future Detroit, a walled-off slum called Brick Mansions is run by a crime lord. An undercover cop and a resident team up to take down the crime lord who has kidnapped the cop's girlfriend.

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What happens

Brick Mansions is a 2014 action film starring Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Goûchy Boy, Catalina Denis and Carlo Rota. The film was directed by Camille Delamarre and written by Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen and Bibi Naceri. A co-production between France, Canada and the United States, it is a remake of the 2004 French film District 13, in which Belle had also starred. This movie was released on April 25, 2014, five months after Walker's death on November 30, 2013, and is dedicated to him. This was Walker's last fully completed film before his death and his penultimate film, followed by his final film appearance in Furious 7. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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