It’s absolute nonsense, of course, but does quite nicely as knockabout Friday night fun. We can smell a sequel if Travolta can be bothered.
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02/26/10
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From Paris With Love (2010)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:48
Rotten:88
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Thought not without its charms -- chief among them John Travolta's endearingly over-the-top performance -- From Paris with Love is too muddled and disjointed to satisfy.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Feb 5, 2010 Wide
Box Office: $23,979,741
Synopsis: 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... [More]
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Reviews for From Paris With Love
It’s not enough to allow the film to rise above its guilty-until-proven-innocent conception of justice. Reprehensible, then, but what fun!
02/26/10
Not suitable for vegetarians due to ham content.
02/26/10
Travolta eventually becomes a parody of himself: with nudge-nudge references to the Royale cheeseburger, famously of Pulp Fiction.
02/26/10
I may have been distracted by the sleights of choreography and editing constructing action sequences around the none too nimble JT. But his trash-talking gusto – though a blatant Pulp Fiction pastiche – gives a bit of life to proceedings.
02/26/10
Everything here is pumped up, lousily shot and malevolently brutish. I’m all for trash pleasure, but it’s hard to come by when the company’s so obnoxious.
02/26/10
For all its absurdities (and there are plenty), as a chest beating, hi-octane romp, From Paris With Love is as enlivening and gratifying as they come.
02/26/10
If there really is a fine line between stupid and clever, this is so far to one side that it makes it look like a dot. If you take the time to check in your brain when getting your popcorn though, you'll probably be too busy laughing to mind.
02/26/10
Undemanding and unoriginal, this is all swagger and no substance.
02/26/10
Preposterous, knockabout stuff but prevented from being genuinely enjoyable by a nasty undercurrent of racism.
02/26/10
Travolta and Meyers do all that’s required of them in another Besson B-movie blow-out. No brain required, but to be fair, twice as entertaining as many films with double the budget.
02/26/10
Saddled with a mostly thankless role as the straight man, Rhys Meyers is decidedly wooden, while the energetic Travolta fails to make us forget he's played this sort of freestyle psycho one too many times already.
02/26/10
Is this a satire on amoral violence or a celebration of it? Regrettably, it's the latter, which should give you some idea of just how despicable this film is.
02/26/10
Another cynically violent, casually racist action movie that even Michael Winner would disown.
02/26/10
You'll have forgotten most of what just happened before the credits have finished. But while you're on the ride, it's great fun.
02/26/10
The monotony is crowned by a predictable plot twist. Producer Luc Besson, maker of the similar but superior Nikita, conceived the original story. It should, like most of its characters, have been killed on sight.
02/26/10
Murder, mayhem and a wildly improbable yarn ensue in this tiresome flick.
02/26/10
Forgettable Friday night entertainment at its most brainless.
02/26/10
From the gun-happy guys who brought us TAKEN, here's another slice of misogynistic, xenophobic mayhem from the City of Light. And like Taken, it's both utterly preposterous and annoyingly entertaining.
02/26/10
An uproarious late-night action blast, and it's going to get trashed by virtually every other reviewer on the planet. Ignore them. It's brilliant.
02/26/10
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