Rich Bonaduce reviews “From Paris With Love”
Rich’s Quickie: I don’t mind big, dumb fun; but this is a bit much…
With: Looking like Mr. Clean on steroids, John Travolta is fun to watch in this buddy-cop shoot ‘em up. There’s plenty of action and twists and turns to keep you watching, but…
Without: …there’s plenty that bugs, too. For one thing, these guys REALLY love their F-bombs – and guns. The body count in this is as high as most things you’ve seen (and of course, the bad guys have REALLY lousy aim, with our heroes barely sustaining a flesh wound from all of it). The thing that seriously buries this though is Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ various musings about Love, particularly his speech near the end just before he shoots his beloved in the head. He also gets over that pretty darn quickly, too, but I didn’t; it was silly and the tone completely out of place with the rest of the movie.
Movie Grade: C+
MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, drug content, pervasive language and brief sexuality.
Director: Pierre Morel
Writers: Adi Hasak (screenplay) and Luc Besson (story)
