Ersbel Oraph
In the wonderful world of the well fed children who have nothing to fear but taxes when it comes to having to deal with the state there grows the fairy tale of the Yamakasi. It's fake. It lacks imagination unless for the idea of the tall building climbers. But that thing is going to be done far better in New Police Story three years later.Probably the worse thing in this production is the scenario and the political goals. In a world where young people of low qualification and of foreign descent hardly gets any employment, in a world where most young people of that region can't find steady jobs even with good genes and an education, well, all the Yamakasi are employed if they don't have anything better to do. In this fantasy dimension the police knows them, wants them, yet they can't get them at home as they do in real life France.And if the prototype of the idiot is the cop in most bad taste jokes, the maghrebin cop has no contact with the outside world. He's precisely the virgin who's trying, hard, to run a brothel.Really, if there wasn't the purpose of propaganda nobody would have produced such junk. But, hey, the whole nation can see the darkies have it all: a fair chance for transplant, friendly police and jobs to choose from. It's only their evil nature that stands in the ways of friendship between the white majority and the others. And to keep things simple for the target audience to be able to follow the simple ideas they are fed all the targets live in the area of the same police district and the same cops are on duty on each event.Myself, I'm disgusted.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch
Roman Bruckner
Well, the movie is about some free running gang. So when i watched i didn't expect a great story, I just wanted to watch an entertaining action movie. At least - as i expected - the story wasn't great, sadly the action wasn't either. There are much cooler free running scenes with more spectacular stunts on the internet for free. And if you want to see some cool free running action within a real movie you should try Banlieue 13, it's nearly the same style but with more impressive and most notably more action scenes. So it's only 2/10 Stars, i didn't really enjoy it and it's got this one additional star, because there are quite worse movies :)
Ian Bourne
I dunno who the Dutch guy was that thought the movie had no plot... I read Spanish sub-titles from the French dialogues, and I understood plenty! Djamel is a little boy who needs a new heart, he wore his own li'l heart out even further trying to do acrobatics like the Yamakasi, they felt guilty and robbed the shareholders of a supposed charity that was to help people like him get new organs.The crooked doctor told Djamel's sister at the beginning of the film that it'll cost 400-thousand francs for the operation, so they get the money (mainly from a Klimt painting) and were told the operation is a further 100-thousand? The doc was a crook trying to jook up a li'l commission for himself! The Arabic inspector did the right thing in forcing the fraud's hand, he faced enough in dealing with a two-faced Government Minister in trying to save the same li'l Djamel...The acrobatics were a marvel of split second timing - whether to get away from the Dobermans or to save Djamel's mother from committing suicide! I am sure I have seen these guys in a Nike commercial, too...
tiqtoq
This film was a total disappointment. Aside from a few stunts sprinkled throughout, it was a real dog. Bad acting, labored dialogue and cliche after cliche abound until the viewer is forced to just speed through the thing until you see people jumping around. Skip it. If you don't know anything about Parkour, this may spark your interest. If you've seen the commercials on Nike and other places about the amazing stunts that some of these people do, you aren't going to find anything here. What's more interesting is the pan-ethnic group itself and the obvious Arab/Black discrimination that goes on in France. It's interesting that most of the Traceurs are of Arab and Asian descent. Just as hip-hop and rap are the voice of the underclass here, so it is in France with the Arab underclass.
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