Williams Belle, Mouss Diouf, Yann Hnautra

Nines-year-old Jamal is injured in a fall and must have a heart transplant within 24 hours to survive. Jamal's poor family desperately needs to come up with $58,000 to pay the Heart Transplant Corp (H...( read more  read more... )TC) for the operation. The Yamakasi, a group of daring urban acrobats, come to the rescue, burglarizing the homes of the rich HTC board members to pay for Jamal's operation.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Julien Seri, Ariel Zeitoun (II)

Release Date: January 1, 2001

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  • September 15, 2007
    It's like the plot of some silly 80's family flick about breakdancers gathering money to save some orphanage. But here, is parkour instead of breakdancing, which is certainly a lot much cooler, but damn, is it that hard to write a barely functional and interesting story? Way to g...( read more)o Besson.
  • October 29, 2009
    Yamazaki??
    Yamikazi??
    Kamikaze??
    hahaha....
  • October 14, 2009
    A convoluted version of Robin Hood. Instead of forest men in tights prancing around it's acrobatic men in tights prancing around. Ok for one viewing. I'm done.
  • May 25, 2009
    I loved it. I've never seen this kind of martial art before. Well, now we can see this kind of martial art in many movies..but i saw it in yamakasi for the first time. It was stunning :) awesome!!
  • April 15, 2009
    Never thought watching some people jumping around some buildings would be fun, this movie proved otherwise *LOL*
  • February 3, 2009
    Not as good as what I expect, the story is quite normal.
    But still, the stunts and action is absolutely cool....
    Parkour is simply amazing!!!
    worth to watch!!!
  • January 22, 2009
    well parkour is one of the worlds fastest growing sports, and this movie just shows how cool and fun it seems
  • January 5, 2009
    does anyone have this movie please send it to me
  • December 28, 2008
    A greaaaat movie!
    Those creazy frenchies (4 blacks, 2 asians and 1 white) climb to buildings without any security. They did it in life during years, before they met Kuc Besson who wrote them a movie.

    It's amazingly crazy when you see some of the jumps they make, from roof tops t...( read more)o others.
    And the script is good too, not only a thin pretext to see their acrobatics.

    There aren't a lot of things we could do to ameliorate this film I think.

    The music's great too, full of good rap songs.
  • December 17, 2008
    Japan have 7 samurai, France have 7 YAMAKASI.. anything about TALENT, it really ENJOYABLE and ENTERTAINING...

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  • miss1991
    April 16, 2007
    aaaargh, will sum1 POST a damn thing on here!! im never gonna get this sheit done. grrgrrr.

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