From Paris with Love
2010 Directed by Pierre Morel
Synopsis
Two agents. One city. No merci.
While working at the American embassy in Paris, low-level intelligence agent James Reece gets involved in espionage when he's pulled into a terrorist plot by high-ranking but uncouth American operative Charlie Wax, who's trying to stop it.
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If I had directed this film, the first thing I would have done was demand that both the main actors shave. Their facial hair is the worst. Travolta's evil goatee looks like it is either dyed, or fake, and Rhy Meyers barely there upper lip & chin scruff is simply terrible.
Apart from my problems with the facial hair, I actually have a lot of fun with this film. The story is pretty much nonsensical, but who needs story when there is so much pointless killing going on. I think technically Travolta's character Charlie Wax could be charged with multiple counts of murder, as he kills many unarmed people in the film, when arresting them would have made more sense. I…
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No amount of bald, goatee wearing, foul mouthed, ludicrously overacting Travolta can save this film from being the boring and predictable waste of time that it is.
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Put this on confusing it for 2 Days In Paris when Travolta started shouting mother fucker and shooting people I realised I put on the wrong film. Great mistake. Travolta is amazing in this film.
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Fucking hell, when will directors stop casting John Travolta?? I think the older he gets, the worse he gets. For anybody to think he is a badass in this means they are kidding themselves. He is a cartoon character of himself, and no matter what he does that is an attempt to give him a polish as an actor. He will just be a polished turd. I don't think he was a great actor at any point in his career, but at least I liked his performances throughout most of it. And Meyers, who I liked a whloe lot from the Tudors, wasn't very effective either. He was pretty much the bumbling sidekick to Travolta's demented sense of action star.…
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Silly stupid fun, that actually gets kind of serious for the last half-hour. As fun as I remembered from seeing it in the theater. Nicholas Cage instead of Travolta would have made this 5 stars.
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Enjoyable, but it would have got boring if it had been any longer. The acting was pretty average and the action scenes seemed quite lacklustre.
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A completely predictable plot with average acting. Still a reasonably fun action flick.
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A disappointingly juvenile turn for Morel after the hard-hitting brilliance of BANLIEUE 13 and TAKEN.
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Enjoyable, but it would have got boring if it had been any longer. The acting was pretty average and the action scenes seemed quite lacklustre.
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April's Dirty Dozen Challenge-April 2nd
From Paris with Love-37% on Rotten Tomatoes
From Paris with Love is an action-comedy that stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Meyers is a rookie CIA agent living in Paris and is given the task of picking up and chauffeuring the veteran agent Travolta. Travolta in my opinion is what makes this so much fun. He is over the top, reckless and funny as hell in this film. The critics may have not liked it but I loved the hell out of this film, 37% or not!
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This is probably rated too high in comparison to other films, but man I LOVED Travolta in this one. Very awesome fight scenes, good dialogue, and general badassery. See it for him.
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The only time I have ever gotten up and left the theater mid-movie was when I screened this awful shit for free.
Ended up coming back... only to get up and leave again.There's God awful, racist, propaganda-ridden bullshit and then there's From Paris with Love.
Ugh ugh ugh.
I don't even want to give it the half star.
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Publiqué el 28/11/2010:
Veamos esta easy movie con mi hija menor; la mayor está de vaga (good for her! :-) From Paris with Love (Morel, 2010).
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2010-11-28 04:13:36 (+00:00) -
joni :DD pay denbtds :DDD
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.