Brick Mansions 3D review: Paul Walker's last film is lazily sketched and not the send-off the actor deserved - The Mirror

Walker spends a good chunk of the film engaged in fast and furious driving which, given his eventual fate, makes for a tough and often unpleasant watch

There’s a sense of appalling foreboding that hangs over every scene of Brick Mansions, the last movie Paul Walker completed before he died in a car crash in California last year.

The actor spends a good chunk of the film engaged in some seriously fast and furious driving which, given his eventual fate, makes for a tough and often unpleasant watch

The movie – a remake of the French parkour flick District B13 – sees our hero playing a cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a huge Detroit city block where a crimelord (RZA) plans to detonate a bomb.

There are gunfights and car chases galore, but none of them are especially exciting since the film’s characters are so lazily sketched.

In short, it’s very hard to get behind any of them.

Walker really deserves a better send-off than this.

Brick Mansions, certificate 15, running time 91 mins