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Brick Mansions

 Brick Mansions was Paul Walker’s last movie before he died in a car accident in 2013 [PH]

Director: Camille DelamarreStarring: Paul Walker, RZA and Robert Maillet(Cert 15; 91mins)Best not to remember Paul Walker by Brick Mansions, a lazy American remake of French B-movie District 13.

Co-star David Belle’s nifty Parkour moves are the real star of the show.

Walker’s incorruptible cop Damien and Belle’s Lino team up to enter a lawless, fortress-like housing project in Detroit, thwart the bad guys and defuse a neutron bomb.

Satirical swipes at cynical, big-city politics have all the subtlety of a poke in the eye in this crass, cartoonish fodder.