This movie is just great! I don't know what you cannot like in it. After all, it was shot with non-professional actors, so keeping that in mind, this movie deserves its 10 out of 10. It is an action movie, and if you want to see some deep meaning in an action movie, you'd better wake up, cause action movies are to be watched, not contemplated upon. Yet, as a European movie, and especially as being a Luc Beson one, it stands out among its American fellow movies, and lacks the logical loops and stupid punchlines.
Basically, YAMAKASI is THE MATRIX and SPIDERMAN but without the assistance of a thousand computer graphics designers. The YAMAKASI are a bunch of guys in Paris who walk anywhere but on the ground and are darn good at it. They climb the facades of 16-story buildings without a single rope or tool, they jump from roof to roof and defy gravity. (MINOR SPOILER AHEAD) The police wants to get them, because they are causing disturbance in the neighborhood, but of course they can't. An accident makes the Yamakasi stand against corruption and inequality and use their skills to retrieve a large amount of money for a negative period of time. Followed by an hour of endless chases, jumping, climbing, and that bitter-sweet taste of humour that only french action movies like TAXI can possess.
NOW the spicy stuff: YAMAKASI is based on real-living characters and events. The all-climbing, all-jumping Yamakasi DO exist, and they are in Paris. Luc Beson got so inspired by this, that not only he wrote and produced the movie, but he also invited the real Yamakasi to play themselves. Most of the stunts have never seen the editing room. The movie is as close to reality as a feature movie will ever get. Any drawbacks (which are too small to notice anyway) are to be credited to the fact that the actors are not professionals, and they just play themselves.
Overal: 10/10. WONDERFUL!
Basically, YAMAKASI is THE MATRIX and SPIDERMAN but without the assistance of a thousand computer graphics designers. The YAMAKASI are a bunch of guys in Paris who walk anywhere but on the ground and are darn good at it. They climb the facades of 16-story buildings without a single rope or tool, they jump from roof to roof and defy gravity. (MINOR SPOILER AHEAD) The police wants to get them, because they are causing disturbance in the neighborhood, but of course they can't. An accident makes the Yamakasi stand against corruption and inequality and use their skills to retrieve a large amount of money for a negative period of time. Followed by an hour of endless chases, jumping, climbing, and that bitter-sweet taste of humour that only french action movies like TAXI can possess.
NOW the spicy stuff: YAMAKASI is based on real-living characters and events. The all-climbing, all-jumping Yamakasi DO exist, and they are in Paris. Luc Beson got so inspired by this, that not only he wrote and produced the movie, but he also invited the real Yamakasi to play themselves. Most of the stunts have never seen the editing room. The movie is as close to reality as a feature movie will ever get. Any drawbacks (which are too small to notice anyway) are to be credited to the fact that the actors are not professionals, and they just play themselves.
Overal: 10/10. WONDERFUL!