Banlieue 13 – Ultimatum (2009)

Movie: Banlieue 13 – Ultimatum (2009)

“After a successful mission against drug lords, the efficient Captain Damien Tomaso is framed at home with three kilograms of heroine planted by the police in his kitchen and he is arrested. Meanwhile a group of teenagers film the action of dirty agents leaded by Roland from the security agency executing policemen in their car and then leaving the car with the corpses in the 13th District to blame the gangs and begin a civil war. Behind these events, the corrupt chief of the security agency Walter Gassman had received a huge amount as kickback from the constructor Harriburton that has interest to construct buildings in the poor area and uses the situation to force the President of France to authorize to nuke five towers in the district. The teenager with the film is hunted by the police but he delivers the memory card to Leito meanwhile Damien calls him from the precinct asking for help. The friends team-up with five dangerous bosses to gather evidences to prove to the president that Gassman has provoked the conflict in their district. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

• Director: Patrick Alessandrin
• Release Date:
  18 February 2009 (France)
• Run Time:
  101 min
• Country: France
• Genre: Action , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated R for some violence, language and drug material.

Trivia: The film was at the subject of a controversy when writer/producer Luc Besson accused cinema chain UGC in the French media of boycotting the film by not showing it in their Parisian suburbs cinemas, and thus trying to stop its intended audience from seeing it. UGC replied that they felt their distribution for the film was up to par and that in any case it wasn’t Besson’s business to decide which cinemas should or should not carry the film.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Leito shows Damien the memory card containing the video of DISS agents killing the two cops, you can see that the card is actually just an empty micro SD to SD card adapter.