Movie Review: From Paris With Love
Jake Coyle - Associated Press
Feb 03, 2010
"From Paris with Love" - As 2008's "Taken" turned Liam Neeson into an action star, director Pierre Model again attempts the feat with two distinctly un-tough actors: John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The Rock needn't worry about his day job. With a shaved head, thick goatee and a leather jacket, Travolta resembles a biker from Soho. He's Charlie Wax, a brutal but chatty CIA agent. Meyers is James Reese, an aspiring spy who's teamed with Wax in a race to prevent a terrorist plot. Rhys, more hollow-cheeked model than gun-totting tough, plays Reese as quickly adapting to the carnage - he's from a hard New York neighborhood, after all, he boasts. (One foresees South Bronx crowds cackling in the theaters.) The bodies pile up, but "Paris" never feels like anything more than action movie dress-up. R for bloody violence throughout, drug content, pervasive language and brief sexuality. 95 minutes.
One star out of four.
- Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
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