Brick Mansions

Brick Mansions

Rating 4 out of 10

A couple times a year I see a movie that I hate to admit here that I saw.  Think I'll just skip that review.  You really expected THAT movie to be good I'm sure people will ask.  Well, not really.  I didn't expect this movie to be good.  I had already been warned by my son inlaw how bad it was.  I can tolerate a bad movie if it has actors I like and lots of action to distract how bad the script is.  Heck I saw both of the Expendable movies and eagerly away the next one this summer!  I liked Paul Walker and this was the last movie he completed before his death.

In downtown Detroit there is a section that has become so bad the police have given up trying.  The city just builds a 40 foot wall around the area of tall brick buildings and let the animals take care of them selves.  There is on man in Brick Mansions that wants to try to clean it up.  He fights the drug dealers in what sure seems to be a losing battle.  He is Lino (David Belle) who is one of those guys who somehow jumps off buildings and crawls up walls without ever getting hurt. Very cool.

When Mansion thugs steal a H-bomb from an armored car (because we transport those things around all the time) the only good cop in Detroit (Paul Walker)  is recruited to join Lino to go in and find/disarm the bomb and avenge the death of his police captain father who was murdered there years ago.  It plays out as stupid as it sounds.

The action is decent.  Mostly when David Belle does his jumping around although it is full of the dreaded shaky cam that I can't stand. This movie killed a couple hours on a rainy day out of town.  Sadly that time could have been better spent playing in the rain.