‘Attack on Paradise’ Review: Under Siege From Both Criminals and Cops, a Hero Battles Upward in a Zesty High-Rise Actioner
Saïd Boumazoughe gets a “created by” credit just below director Bob Colaers at the end of “Attack on Paradise,” amplifying the fact that this project is...
Key points
- Saïd Boumazoughe gets a “created by” credit just below director Bob Colaers at the end of “Attack on Paradise,” amplifying the fact that this project is very much the Belgian-Moroccan star’s realized personal fantasy of an action vehicle.
- Seven years later, our hero gets released from prison.
- In his absence, the housing project Suley grew up in got taken over by the crime boss known as Prince (Achmed Akkabi).
- With scant time for backstory, we must simply accept that Suley is a near-invincible one-man army, and Boumazoughe’s air of beleaguered resourcefulness makes that easy to swallow.
What happened
Saïd Boumazoughe gets a “created by” credit just below director Bob Colaers at the end of “Attack on Paradise,” amplifying the fact that this project is very much the Belgian-Moroccan star’s realized personal fantasy of an action vehicle. Seven years later, our hero gets released from prison. In his absence, the housing project Suley grew up in got taken over by the crime boss known as Prince (Achmed Akkabi). With scant time for backstory, we must simply accept that Suley is a near-invincible one-man army, and Boumazoughe’s air of beleaguered resourcefulness makes that easy to swallow. The supporting figures are colorful enough, though Akkabi’s sneering chief villain arguably makes less of an impression than his subordinates. If the script by Sven Huybrechts (of WWII thriller “Torpedo”), Boumazoughe and fellow cast member Salahdine Ibnou Kacemi is the most routine element here, it nonetheless rehashes well-worn ideas at a brisk clip.
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