From Paris with Love Review

From Paris with Love, it is a really sappy title but it is a VIOLENT movie.  This movie stars Johnathan Rhys Meyers as a French Ambassador agent named Reece and John Travolta as Wax, a loose cannon rebel-type spy for the US.  When I first saw trailers for this movie I didn't even recognize Travolta, he is sporting a thick beard and no hair.  Very different from other characters I have seen from him in the past.

Reece is stuck doing softball missions undercover in the French Embassy when he gets the opportunity to uncover a terrorist plot with his new partner Wax.  They travel through the slums of Paris against coked up Chinese people leaving a trail of corpses, Wax's way of doing things, only to find that the real threat was under their nose the entire time.

This is your basic bang-bang shoot'em up flick but it does have a diferent feel with the setting of Paris.  I really liked the twist at the end, it was pretty unexpected and turned the whole plot around.  Although there were times at the begining when I felt confused, since they dropped you in the middle of Reece's life, the plot worked itself out through the course of the movie.  Also something I really liked was a nod to Pulp Fiction when Wax eats a 'Royale with cheese'.  Overall I would have to give this movie a RENT IT, it wasn't bad but not a cenematic masterpiece either.

See Ya,
Razz