Saturday, February 6, 2010

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE




Action\adventure

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Jonathan Rhys Meyers: James Reece, personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France
Richard Durden: Ambassador Bennington
Kasia Smutniak: James’ girfriend Caroline
John Travolta: Charlie Wax, special CIA agent

REVIEW
Things start off deceptively slowly but once Charlie Wax shows up it is virtually non-stop action as he one-handily takes on a variety of bad guys who come across his path including terrorists, drug dealers and the like.

His language is peppered with expletives intended to intimidate his foe but can become obnoxious. The mayhem is relentless: shooting people and blowing things up are interspersed with wild car chases though the City of Love. Guess that’s where the title comes from because there ain’t no love from this guy.

Now don’t go cancelling anything important (like picking up your things at the dry cleaners) but if you have a hour and a half to kill (get the pun?) then it’s worth seeing. Otherwise you could easily skip it and not lose any sleep over it. And save yourself a couple of bucks.

CLASSIFICATION
for strong, bloody violence throughout, drug content, pervasive language and brief sexuality.

FOR NITPICKERS ONLY
With a break in the action James takes a moment to wash his face and get rid of the splattered blood. He misses two spots, one above his right eye and another below his left ear. But in the very next scene (and for the rest of the movie) these have conveniently disappeared.

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