What would make action-movie junkies endure a French-subtitled feature film? A few reasons. One: it’s written by action-movie stalwart Luc Besson. Two: there’s minimal dialogue in the 100 minutes of the film, and three: all the action revolves around that cool, death-defying sport called parkour.Parkour literally means “the art of flight” and entails some rather super-human jumps between buildings and balconies and off heights that really should kill a person. What’s even cooler about the relentless parkour action in this film is that it’s all real. Between the actors (who actually performed a lot of their own stunts) and the stuntmen, the action is unmistakably genuine, which is becoming more rare in these CGI-happy days.
So, for the average thrillseeker, this movie checks all the right boxes. If you’re one of those people who likes their action as a side order to the storyline, however, then you’ll be seriously bummed. A storyline in a movie like this is extraneous, frivolous, a joke, in fact. Yeah, you get the idea.
Rating: 3 outta 5
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