B13 - A shadowrun movie, Movie review of French SResque film Options

[nezumi]

My pregnant wife has been having cravings for kung-fu, so we picked up this (not technically kung-fu, I know) movie for about $15. Everyone has seen the clip of the French guy jumping through windows and around the apartment building while being chased by a dozen guys with guns, right? The threads titled "d00d, athletics 8 adept!" That video is a clip from this movie (and really, probably the BEST single clip from the movie).

The overall premise is pretty neat. Basically they walled off a section of Paris and stopped all public services, so it's now the barrens. There are a few barracks where the police live, armed with grenade launchers and assault rifles, but they don't do much except "keep the peace". The peace is really kept by drug dealers who have lotsa cash. The plot is quite believable, and I think would work great in an SR setting, although it might be a bit complex in that there are easier ways to accomplish what the main bad guy wants to do. Action scenes were neat, the female lead had a lot of spunk. Overall one of the better Shadowrun-esque movies, certainly better than Johnny Mnemonic.

This is a French movie, on limited release in the US. IMDB says this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/

Edit: Oh yeah, towards the end there's a hacker with like a two minute cameo. It took me a moment to put two and two together as to what REALLY transpired, but when I did, it seemed pretty funny. A good note as to why you should always make sure the people smarter than you fear you.