From Paris With Love
It looks to be a big weekend for the movies as early reports are Dear John toppled Avatar from the top spot after a seven week run by the James Cameron mega-hit. I couldn’t decide what to see today and finally settled on From Paris with Love due to my own personal love for John Travolta. He is not the best actor by any means, but he is definitely entertaining.
From Paris With Love opens with a glimpse at the life of James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), the personal aide to a U.S. Ambassador in France. After receiving a mysterious phone call, it quickly becomes evident that the young Mr. Reece has a secret going on. We also find he has a beautiful French girlfriend,Caroline (Kasia Smutniak), that he is devoted to. Life is perfect until he gets another phone call instructing him to go pick up his new “partner” who is being detained at the airport by the French authorities. If he succeeds the mission with this new partner then he is “in the club”, the CIA.
Enter Charlie Wax (Travolta), brash, crude, and a definite loose cannon. As Wax drags Reece on one violence heavy “job” after another, we go from searching for a drug dealer that sold bad cocaine to a diplomats daughter to terrorists. As the story unfolds, Reece grows more confused and you have to start questioning if Wax is truly on the up and up. The movie heats up to the boiling point in the last thirty minutes with a plot twist that was out of the blue.
It is a typical John Travolta shoot-em-up movie where the acting takes back seat to the fighting, shooting, and one liners. Travolta and Rhys Meyers play well off of each other, complete with Rhys Meyers giving off totally confused looks frequently as he tags along on the mission. Entertaining movie for a Saturday matinee.
And one I give
of 5 reels to, mainly due to the fact that John Travolta entertains regardless.
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