Banlieue 13:Ultimatum (Patrick Alessandrin, 2009)

The continuation to District 13 recycles the story of the first film but omits too much clean footage of its only USP, namely the incredible parkour displayed by its actual originator, David Belle, in favour of a lot of chopsocky and wire work. Once again the lawless walled-in Parisian ghetto is under threat of destruction by the forces of authority and big business and it's up to the dynamic cop-homeboy duo to foil their plans by, er, punching and jumping around incessantly. The action is efficiently shot, but reaches saturation point so early on that no choreographer on Earth could sustain interest in the proceedings, with a strictly perfunctory plot lending no assistance.

4/10