Movie Review: From Paris With Love

From Paris With Love is a fast paced action flick that is fairly entertaining if you don't think too hard about it.

From Paris With Love stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as James Reese, a low-level spy with wanna be big time special ops aspirations. John Travolta plays Charlie Wax, a bigger than life, martial arts expert, missile shooting explosion of the kind of spy Reese wants to be, a man whose closest relationship is to his gun (he's even given it a name), and Travolta plays him with nearly over-the-top gusto.

The plot has something to do with drugs and terrorists, though the two are never clearly connected and this is the weakest part of the movie. It all servers as a loose framework for mayhem anyway, as Wax screams into town and pulls Reese along the way as he shoots, kicks and blows up his way through the Paris underground. Despite bullets, bodies and bombs galore, the cops only show up when it is convenient to the action.

In the end, nobody seems to notice much. The political big wig threatened by the terrorist only wants to know whose head will roll because she was delayed in arriving at the generic international conference. Can you imagine the media coverage if something like From Paris With Love happened in real life? I guess that's why we have movies.