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Watch: Brick Mansions 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a future where Detroit’s most dangerous criminals occupy the city’s deserted brick mansions, an undercover cop joins forces with an ex-convict to defeat the notorious drug kingpin who has taken the mayor hostage. Detroit has fallen to crime, and in an effort to contain it, authorities have sealed up the inner city with a massive wall. Once you’re inside, you never get out. Lino (David Belle) is an ex-con who’s trying to make the best of life in this urban penitentiary when his girlfriend is abducted by ruthless drug lord Tremaine (RZA). Meanwhile, as undercover cop Damien Collier (Paul Walker) contends with deep-rooted corruption within the police department, Tremaine imprisons the mayor, and threatens to detonate a powerful weapon unless he’s paid millions in ransom. Despite their differences, Lino and Collier are the only men capable of entering the city, and defeating Tremaine’s gang. With the clock ticking, this mismatched duo must now prevent Detroit from being completely decimated by a maniac who holds the entire city in the palm of his hand…
Plot: In a dystopian Detroit, grand houses that once housed the wealthy are now homes of the city’s most-dangerous criminals. Surrounding the area is a giant wall to keep the rest of Detroit safe. For undercover cop Damien Collier, every day is a battle against corruption as he struggles to bring his father’s killer, Tremaine, to justice. Meanwhile, Damien and an ex-con named Lino work together to save the city from a plot to destroy it.
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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 42,709
	26% | RottenTomatoes
	40/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1351 Popularity: 25.621 | TMDB

Reviews:

Unnecessary remake but OK though
I like the good cinematography, even the opening credits alone already made me liked it. David Belle is still very cool with his spins, back-flips, jumps and other stunts. It has been 10 years but I don’t see any degradation of his parkour skills.

Paul Walker did good as Belle’s partner-in-crime, even though he can’t do parkour, he still kicked-ass. Catalina Dennis who plays Belle’s girlfriend is consistent with her character, a tough girl who doesn’t stand still with unfair treatments. The lousy one is RZA who plays the drug lord Tremain. Well, in my opinion he can’t act, his face expression just doesn’t make it.

For those who like parkour but haven’t watched Banlieue 13, this might as well be in your watchlist. It’s still okay even if you have watched Banlieue 13 (like me), because it was in French and it felt quite weird, even with subtitles.

A quite watchable remake, although it’s a far cry from the original
This English-language remake of the excellent DISTRICT 13 was once again made by the French, albeit shot in Canada this time around. It’s pretty much a scene-for-scene remake of the original, although inevitably not as good for reasons which we shall come to. It’s only as the running time goes on that crucial differences to the original come to light and unfortunately they’re not improvements.

First, let’s get the good stuff listed. This is a short, snappy, action thriller, with plenty of shoot-outs and fight scenes to recommend it. The framing is often good and there’s a fine sense of setting in the grubby, run-down locations. One of the highlights is the return of David Belle, playing the same character as he did in the original; it’s just an annoyance that they decided to dub him rather than have him use his French accented English.

Paul Walker is an odd but obvious choice for Cyril Raffaelli’s character in the original, but he’s no martial artist so the martial arts fights have been replaced by fist fights and a greater emphasis on car chases. Catalina Denis and Ayisha Issa are the requisite scantily-clad women who hang around to show off their bodies and little more is required of them than that.

The problems are slight at first but begin to mount up as the narrative progresses. First off, the editing is horrendous. The early Parkour scenes are ruined by the refusal to shoot the stunts in single, fluid takes; there’s always a dodgy edit halfway through, cutting to a different angle and lessening the impact. Sometimes one of Belle’s jumps has three or four edits in it which ruins the whole flow of the thing. BRICK MANSIONS does a lot right, but it gets this crucial editing oh so wrong. I remember in the old days of Jackie Chan’s 1980s movies that they sometimes wanted to capture a stunt from different angles, so they would just replay it, which was a much better way of doing it.

The second problem is RZA, playing the drug dealer villain of the piece. RZA is one of those guys who really loves himself and the film-makers seem to love him too, so there’s an unbelievable twist at the end which has to be seen to be believed. The ending is frankly laughable in this respect, and a far cry from the power of the original movie. It’s the epitome of sanitised, PG-13 entertainment, and I could cry. At least the rest of the film is in the right spirit, so it’s only the ending where it falls apart.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min), 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (Extended Cut)
Budget 28000000
Revenue 68896829
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Camille Delamarre
Writer Luc Besson, Bibi Naceri, Ryan Amon
Actors Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA
Country France, Canada, United States, Spain
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby, SDDS, DTS, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround 7.1
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red Epic, Hawk V-Lite 1.3x, V-Plus 1.3x and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Digital Factory, Paris, France (digital intermediate), Vision Globale, Montreal, Canada (dailies)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW (5K)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Hawk Scope (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema