From Paris with Love

            From Paris with Love. An obvious play on the old James Bond movie, From Russia with Love, but that's the point, and I think that fun attitude with the title fits in with the rest of this movie. This movie came out just over a year ago and is an action thriller starring John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), and Kasia Smutniak.
             Meyers plays James Reece, an assistant to the US Ambassador to France that doubles as a low-level spy. Looking to move up in the world of espionage is difficult enough for Reece, especially when trying to deal with his fiancee Caroline (Smutniak); and then he gets assigned to partner up with Charlie Wax (Travolta). Wax is the US' best operative, on a mission to prevent a terrorist attack from going down in Paris. Wax isn't your normal operative though. He has very unorthodox methods and acts on a motto of shoot first ask questions later, where as Reece is a play by the rules at all times sort of guy. You're everyday odd couple.
             Besides this sort of predicability the movie is a fun ride from beginning to finish. Travolta's portrayal of Wax is spot on through the entire film as that over the top kick ass guy. He takes the James Bond type of character and transforms it from the high class suave agent to the all around bad ass, the guys who is kicking ass and taking names and having fun doing it. All while trying to losing up the uptight Reece.
             The search for the terrorists in charge of the expectant attack leads Reece and Wax all over Paris to deal with many groups of people in all sorts of odd and different situations. The best part about all of this though was that not only was the movie fun to watch, but it's plot ended up being more complex than I thought would be and even threw a twist at me that I didn't see coming. The ending believe they is left slightly open for a possibility of a sequel. If one never came to be the ending works with that, but it also plays for there to be one, which I hope there is. Meyers and Travolta played well off of each other and it would be great to see Travolta to play the Wax character again.
             Overall, I have to say this movie was very fun and entertaining and it had a perfect running time of a n hour and a half. I would definitely recommend anyone interested in this movie to see it. I give it 3 out of 4 stars and a thumbs up. For availability I believe you can still get it at Redbox and it is available for instant streaming on Netflix. Enjoy.

              Not sure what my next review will be, so if you have any suggestions feel free to post them. Otherwise, I may go with some of the other best picture nominees from this years Oscars.