LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Simon Booth The YAMAKASI are a bunch of kids who practise what is variously known as Parkour and Free Running, a sort of sport/art/philosophy involving the development of skills for the traversal of urban environments in interesting ways (http://www.parkour.com/).YAMAKASI the film is a Luc Besson production that basically provides a vehicle for 7 of these kids to show their stuff, in the pretence of helping a young kid who needs a heart transplant. It actually feels rather like a kids film, with larger than life characters (a bit of a keystone cops thing going on) and a message about being a bit rebellious but in a good way, or something.The group are real life practitioners of Parkour, not professional actors - which kind of shows, though not in a particularly bad way - they're not wooden, but don't exactly express deep or complicated emotions.Given that the film is basically a vehicle for Parkour, it's somewhat disappointing that not all that much of it is shown. There's some building scaling which is impressive but not particularly cinematic, then a bunch of antics where very little "free running" is shown - there are just a couple of scenes which show the potential the film could have had, towards the end. That potential has recently been realised much more dramatically in the film BANLIEUE 13, where one of the founders of Parkour is teamed up with martial artist Cyril Raffaelli for some truly original and sometimes incredible action sequences which show how Parkour could really be the foundation of a whole new action style. It's a shame that YAMAKASI, for whatever reason, didn't seem to know what to do with it. I'm hoping that the semi-sequel LES FILS DU VENT will put the group's talents to better use.

mikka-4 A group of Parisian free runners who follow a samurai type ethic, need to raise 400,000 francs, to arrange for a heart to be transported from a private company in Switzerland to Paris to save a boys life. They decide to steal from the 7 directors of the company because they will end up giving the money back to them for the heart anyways.So begins a frantic 6 and a half hour stealing spree, where they manage to steal 172,500 in cash and fence stolen items to make up the rest. They get caught but lucky for them, a friend of theirs is a police inspector, who backs up their story and they get released due to lack of evidence.Free running tricks and aerobatics are exceptional. Well worth a look

Ian Bourne I dunno who the Dutch guy was that thought the movie had no plot... I read Spanish sub-titles from the French dialogues, and I understood plenty! Djamel is a little boy who needs a new heart, he wore his own li'l heart out even further trying to do acrobatics like the Yamakasi, they felt guilty and robbed the shareholders of a supposed charity that was to help people like him get new organs.The crooked doctor told Djamel's sister at the beginning of the film that it'll cost 400-thousand francs for the operation, so they get the money (mainly from a Klimt painting) and were told the operation is a further 100-thousand? The doc was a crook trying to jook up a li'l commission for himself! The Arabic inspector did the right thing in forcing the fraud's hand, he faced enough in dealing with a two-faced Government Minister in trying to save the same li'l Djamel...The acrobatics were a marvel of split second timing - whether to get away from the Dobermans or to save Djamel's mother from committing suicide! I am sure I have seen these guys in a Nike commercial, too...

TurbDaMan2000 Although i do not understand French, this movie has the ability to show that performing crazy stunts CAN be done without the use of Special effects and computer animations. This movie makes SPIDER-MAN and the MATRIX look realistic and without the millions of dollars used to actually make the visual effects.Rating 10/10