Tuesday, September 21, 2010

From Paris With Love Reviewed

By Victoria Skinner

If you are an action movie fan, then From Paris with Love is a production that you must not miss. This movie is action packed all throughout, and contains scenes that will keep your eyes riveted to the screen with excitement all the way through.

The story begins with the main character, James Reese, a part that is portrayed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. This character, seen here as a personal aide to the U. S. Ambassador assigned to France, is an effective diplomat who has won his employer's trust as he executes his duties to an exact science.

Unknown to his employer, Reese has a sideline ambition to become a full fledged CIA operative and he has been taking on minor assignments during his diplomatic capacity as an aide. All of this activity is shared in confidence with his lovely French fiancee Caroline (played by Kasia Smutniak).

The otherwise quietly exciting secret life of James Reese takes a completely different turn once he finally gets his big break from his CIA contact who assigns him a CIA special agent as a partner, Charlie Wax. Wax is an uncouth, misbehaving yet effective agent, played by multi-awarded actor John Travolta.

John Travolta's sudden appearance in this movie is enough to get the viewers excited, as it is certain that the twists and turns of the storyline are about to begin. Travolta carries his character's obnoxious and rude personality all the way through the action scenes with his classic style and flair.

Wax enters the scene with his rude behavior toward French customs officials as he inadvertently gets detained for canned health drinks (it is discovered later that these cans are containers for a concealed weapon). Reese finds his hands full when Wax insists he get him past customs with all canned drinks intact, and refuses to leave without them, calling the French officers all sorts of names and insults. The scene ends with Reese finding a better approach to the situation by giving the canned items a diplomatic pouch status.

Reese is then taken on a whirlwind spin around the city as Wax uncovers one drug den after another, obviously searching for bigger fish, under the pretense that he is on a mission off the record for an angry diplomat whose daughter was victimized by a drug ring. Obnoxious and completely taking no effort to cover up his tracks, Wax eventually confides to Reese that the drug busting only scratches the surface of a deeper mission.

In actuality, the cocaine trail leads to an underground circle of terrorists plotting to infiltrate the U. S. Embassy. Reese is shocked to find that a very active player in this circle of subversives is his own fiancee who had been specifically chosen to glean intelligence from Reese, betraying his trust in her.

The entire story comes full circle when a suicide bomber actually succeeds in making it into the U. S. Embassy in the guise of a delegate attending a summit. It also reaches its climax when Reese comes to the conclusion that it is his fiancee who has been chosen to die for the cause.

Reese takes it upon himself to try and talk Caroline out of her original plan to trigger the bomb on her body, but to no avail, she still takes the attempt and he is forced to shoot her at close range. Saving the day, Wax shows up from behind to catch her fall and disarms the bomb, ending the threat to the summit.

From Paris with Love is a movie filled with action, mystery, and self analysis as James Reese has to shed everything he used to believe his life to be, and takes on the reigns to become an official CIA agent. The fact that his unlikely mentor is Charlie Wax, Reese becomes a changed man by the end of the movie. - 40726

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