From Paris With Love

May 13, 2010

From Paris With Love

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2010 Producer Luc Besson checks in with his latest Euro-trash retread involving much shooting of people, chasing of cars and blowing up of things, and apparently can’t decide whether it’s a mindless action comedy or a mindless action drama. An apparatchik at the American Embassy (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) accomplishes his […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2010

From Paris with Love: ©2009 EUROPACORP - M6 FILMS – GRIVE PRODUCTIONS – APIPOULAÏ PROD

Producer Luc Besson checks in with his latest Euro-trash retread involving much shooting of people, chasing of cars and blowing up of things, and apparently can’t decide whether it’s a mindless action comedy or a mindless action drama. An apparatchik at the American Embassy (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) accomplishes his dream of getting promoted to the CIA, but the job turns into a nightmare when he finds that his partner is a profane, trigger-happy loose cannon. John Travolta is more ridiculous than usual, but he gives this lobotomized time-waster its only signs of life.