The sequel to the incredible action film Banlieue 13 starring the parkour master David Belle and the martial artist Cyril Raffaelli. This is a serious action film that looks incredible, and has some of the best action in the world. Raffaelli’s scenes are like serious Jackie Chan fight scenes (no comedy here) and Belle is amazing to watch, he literally is a human spiderman able to leap and jump and run up walls. The ending was a bit of a let down for me, but overall this is an enjoyable sequel, and one of the most impressive action films of the last few years.

The film starts with the ending of the last film, Leito (David Belle) the Banlieue 13 resident who fought back saying goodbye to his friend the cop Damien Tomaso (Cyril Raffaelli) talking about the government doing what it said and breaking down the wall holding in the getting B13, and putting money into education and parks. We cut to 3 years later and nothing has changed. The gangs still rule. And Leito is pissed off, and keeps planting bombs to blow up the wall, which neither the cops or the local gangs like. Damien is meanwhile undercover, breaking a chinese gang that is running drugs that are taken out from the district. He is dressed like a tranny, but manages to capture the Chinese boss, and all the other mob bosses who are there to meet to pick up their drugs. Damien can’t go out the escape tunnel though, as the Van Gogh Painting he has won’t fit, and he has to use it to fight his way out. Damien is a success, and is sent home to rest, but he wakes up to cops from the special edition breaking in and arresting him for drugs that they planted.

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Meanwhile some kids videotape soldiers from the special unit shooting 2 police officers and loading the car into a truck. They then drop the car in B13 and shoot at a local gang, so the gang fires back. They videotape this and put it on the news to allow their aggressive push into the District. The leader of the special unit Walter Gassman (Daniel Duval) is trying to push the President (Philippe Torreton) to destroy the district.

The kids who took the video are chased by special section, but manage to get the video to Leito. Leito watches it just before the special section shows up and gets a message from Damien telling him to come and get him out. The Special Section shows up, and Demian leads them on a merry chase, and manages to get away.

Demian heads to the police station and gets himself locked up so he can escape and gets Demien out. They head to Gassman’s office, and Demien holds off the cops while Leito steals Gassman’s hard drive.

The President has been convinced to evacuate the district, but the 5 gangs headquartered in the 5 towers have not left as of yet.

They got to Tao (Elodie Yung) the head of the Asian gang, and get the info on the hard drive, which shows that Gassman is getting kickbacks of Harriburton to rebuild B13, so he set up to destroy the district by making it look like it was a Civil War. They unite the 5 gangs, and get their best fighters to go sans guns, and head to the Presidential palace.

They fight their way and get to the President and show their evidence, and Gassman grabs the President and wants him to shoot the missiles into B13, but they manage to stop him.

The President agrees to put money and parks and schooling into the disctict, but they ask for a new district and get him to shoot the missiles and destroy the now empty district, and promise to rebuilt it.

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The ending could have been better, but the action is worth watching, and is in fact incredible!