Movie Review: Brick Mansions
Brick Mansions is one of Paul Walker's last films, not including the next Fast and the Furious movie, and it seemed to have an interesting premise. What I didn't know going in to the film is that it's a remake of a 2004 Parisian film, District B13 ( Banlieue 13 in French) and David Belle, one of the main actors in this current version, played the same role in that movie as well as this one. It was fairly amusing to see this film with a Detroit audience, because of some of the sheer ridiculousness of how it presents the city. The movie starts off in Detroit, 2018, where crime is at an all-time high and the worst part of the ghetto, Brick Mansions, has been cordoned off from the rest of the city. The people that live there are extremely poor, and many of them are thugs; the exception to this is a big-time drug dealer, Tremaine (RZA), who has his headquarters at the Mansions and also lives there. Damien (Walker), an undercover cop, needs to infiltrate the Mansions in or