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MOVIE REVIEW: From Paris With Love — B-
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MOVIE REVIEW: From Paris With Love — B-
From Paris with Love didn't screen in time for publication but I went anyway.
James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, so pretty, so bad at acting) is the by-the-book aide to the American ambassador to France, but yearns for tasks more dangerous than beating his clueless boss at chess. So he jumps at the opportunity to drive for "motherfucker"-spewing special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta), an amalgamation of Travolta characters of yore: Face/Off's Castor Troy, Broken Arrow's Vic Deakins and Pulp Fiction's Vincent Vega (with a little Jules Winnfield thrown in for good measure — it's hard not to assume this part was originally meant for Samuel L. Jackson). Reece estimates that the cueball-headed Wax, who names his gun Mrs. Jones (because they've got a thing going on), averages one baddie kill per hour, but it seems higher than that, especially since the guy looks so cool doing it. As a former cinematographer, director Pierre Morel is a master of staging hand-to-hand combat. And unlike Morel's last film, about an older dude disposing of villains as if they were lozenge wrappers (Taken), From Paris with Love has a devious sense of humor about itself, its genre and its players. (How could it not, with that scum 'stache Rhys Meyers sports throughout?) Morel's skill behind the camera, alongside cinematographer Michel Abramowicz (who also shot Taken), is a boon here, considering the first half of the movie is simply designed for Travolta to remind people he's more fun when he plays the badass. But then that pesky "plot" gets in the way and everything turns to shit. Forehead-slappingly bad moments are prominent and the story is altogether incomprehensible, but it's a welcome entry into the mindless, fun-to-watch action canon (the second this week from Gallic film titan Luc Besson, the first being District 13: Ultimatum). Even if they do make a Royale with Cheese joke. Twice.
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