From Paris With Love

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Release Date: February 5, 2010
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Pierre Morel
Screenwriter: Luc Besson, Adi Hasak
Starring: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence throughout, drug content, pervasive language and brief sexuality)
Official Website: FromParisWithLovefilm.com

A personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck - until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).

A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.

EN 5 Second Review: Excessively violent, crazy fights, magic bullets, crazy car chases, crashes, and more. In other words first rate entertainment. Travolta is magic here as he plays the part completely over the top with just a little bit of a wink and a nod to great buddy cop flicks of the past. It works fantastically as does his chemistry with Meyers. The formula is freshened and you get the feeling this is not a one shot deal. I am ready for more now.

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