Visionary-turned-pablum-producer Luc Besson here relocates 2004's nifty parkour-based actioner District 13 to a crime- and cliche-ridden Detroit, where cop Paul Walker (in his last completed role) and the original's David Belle are pursuing a megaton bomb, helpfully fitted with digital countdown clock. A thousand cuts per minute aim to speed us mindlessly past Besson's usual chauvinism, political cynicism and dubious colour-coding – as in Taken, non-Caucasians are overwhelming villainous – while also chopping short exactly those moves this setup was meant to showcase. The Raid 2 got most of its kicks in situ; this deploys a lot of edit-suite trickery to generate only moderate dynamism.
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Luc Besson relocates French thriller District 13 to Detroit, but the film is notable mainly for Paul Walker's last completed role