Tuesday, September 21, 2010

From Paris With Love - Action Packed

By Victoria Skinner

A furiously action packed film, From Paris with Love takes the audience on a wild ride all the way through with its fast paced unforgettable scenes and many blazing guns. For lovers of action movies that carry some suspense and other scenes that are a cause for much debate afterward, this is the movie to see.

One of the main characters, James Reese, is played by Golden Globe Best Actor award winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The character James Reese is the personal aide assisting the U. S. Ambassador to France, and his dedication to his work has the Ambassador's full trust and confidence in his flawless efficiency.

Reese is blessed with a good job and a loving fiancee, Caroline, which is played by actress Kasia Smutniak, whom he trusts with his ambition to become a CIA agent. Reese keeps an extra side job taking on minor assignments from the CIA, which he performs quite well since he knows his way around the diplomatic circles.

This double life that Reese leads is completely pivoted to another level when he meets Charlie Wax. Played by seasoned actor John Travolta, Charlie Wax is sent to France on a mission and has been given James Reese as a partner who knows the Paris well. Wax is an agent with a style all his own, and this is completely beyond what Reese expects.

John Travolta does justice to this movie as his grand appearance as an uncouth, misbehaving but effective CIA agent takes control and the action scenes start pumping. The movie takes a sudden fast paced vibration as Charlie Wax begins to take his mission on a roll.

From smuggling a gun past airport security officials, to killing off goons in a Chinese restaurant connected to a drug supply ring, Wax shows Reese a very different side to the otherwise dignified concept of a CIA agent. This is where Reese starts to learn that not all secret agents are as suave and smooth as James Bond, as his new partner is the complete picture of all that is not ideal.

Wax proceeds to attack one drug den after another, telling Reese he is on a special "offline" mission for a high government official whose daughter was a victim of the drug ring. After making it obvious that he is after something deeper, Reese finally manages to get Wax to tell him the actual truth about the mission.

The drugs that are confiscated by Wax leads them closer to the actual target, which is an underground group of Pakistani terrorists who have plans of infiltrating the U. S. Embassy. As the movie progresses, Reese is exposed to the ugly truth that his own fiancee is a member of this group, and has been using him all along.

The movie reaches its peak as a suicide bomber succeeds in infiltrating the U. S. Embassy disguised as a summit delegate. Reese starts to analyze all the facts and realizes that it is his fiancee who has been chosen to carry the bomb.

Trying to talk her out of activating the bomb, Reese ultimately fails and has too shoot Caroline as she makes the attempt to blow up the summit anyway. As she falls from the bullet wound on her forehead, Wax catches her and manages to disarm the bomb, while Reese looks on.

The entire movie is filled with action scenes and moments where you need to keep watching to see what happens next. The character of James Reese takes on drastic changes as he uncovers the truth of his life piece by piece, and he ends up becoming almost as tough and soundly determined as his uncouth mentor, Charlie Wax. - 40729

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