Markie goes to movies (so you don't have to)

District B-13 (dir. Pierre Morel) Normally, Luc Besson is the ideal auteur for the kind of action-movie trash I like: fast, punked-out, dystopian. But since he decided to hand over actually making the movies to various hired directors, the movies themselves have varied in quality: Kiss of the Dragon pretty great, The Transporter ridiculous, etc., depending on how smart the director was. This film has the advantage of moving really fast, with some great acrobatic sequences up and down stairs, walls, walls, roofs, and plumbing fixtures in the high-rise Paris projects where most of the movie is set. Disadvantages include the director's relative inability to edit action sequences in any ways that make sense, the supermodel himbos who play the good cop and the good criminal, and Dany Verissimo providing a pretty lame female lead (at least compared to such kick-ass earlier heroines as Annie Parillaud in La Femme Nikita--or Natalie Portman in The Proessional). So a good, quick, dumb summer action movie, no more, no less. Mark's review (stupid points):??