{"id":9957,"date":"2006-11-18T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2006-11-18T02:47:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T07:47:12","slug":"district-b13-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/18\/district-b13-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"District B13 (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1\"<\/a>I don\u2019t know. Perhaps I\u2019m burned out on action films, particularly from action films with flashy stunts that don\u2019t serve much of a purpose. In the end, \u201cDistrict B13\u201d is a string of action sequences featuring shoot outs, fight scenes, and acrobatics, and not much of a story or characterization to keep us watching. I mean sure, the action scenes are great, but I couldn\u2019t pretend to care when I wasn\u2019t sure who was who and what the grand plot of the entire film is supposed to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cDistrict B13\u201d and its action scenes are surprisingly boring, and bland, and I found myself wanting more within the hand to hand combat that I didn\u2019t get. I expected a lot from this, and I received very little in return. There are your basic MacGuffin\u2019s: a bomb, drugs, and kidnappings that really are only there to be a backdrop for the stuns, and not actually help to provide a plot. And with a film that\u2019s really only a little over eighty minutes, there\u2019s not much room for one. I can see this being shown at exhibits exemplifying great stunt work on screen, but beyond that, the choreography is routine, and the purposes of said action scenes blatant.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t flow from story to stunt, but gives us stints of dialogue and arbitrary character conflict then introduces the perfect scenarios in which our characters can basically escape any situation unscathed while the opponents pace around unable to hit the side of a barn, let alone one man with a blunt instrument. \u201cDistrict B13\u201d comes off more like a theme park show than an actual film, it\u2019s there to deliver stunts and never an actual story. The futuristic setting is meaningless, the war zone elements serve only to add an capricious \u201cMad Max\u201d atmosphere, and the dichotomy between the officer and the rebel all too rehashed for and featured for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n

The plot here is basically a stock backdrop for our characters. Enemy has a bomb, villain has someone kidnapped that our hero has to rescue, while the two male opposites argue and bicker and huff and puff ad nauseum. When the film is over people won\u2019t be quoting it, nor will they be picking their favorite characters, they\u2019ll just recount the stunts for a little while, and move on to something else. That\u2019s how all these flashy action films end up. As filler for a boring afternoon, then \u201cDistrict B13\u201d will serve a purpose, yet really be nothing more than empty entertainment without much value. There\u2019s really nothing astonishing behind it, nothing original, and when you feel lost in an action film, its poor writing and directing at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know. Perhaps I\u2019m burned out on action films, particularly from action films with flashy stunts that don\u2019t serve much of a purpose. In the end, \u201cDistrict B13\u201d is a string of action sequences featuring shoot outs, fight scenes, and acrobatics, and not much of a story or characterization to keep us watching. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,240,249,367,391,631,906],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-crime","tag-d","tag-foreign","tag-gangster","tag-martial-arts","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}