From Paris With Love
From Paris with Love stars John Travolta and Jonathan Ryes-Myers. Set in Paris and shot on location, this film is a comic shoot um up. James Reece, Rhys-Meyers, is the assistant to the American Ambassador and has a part time job working as a low lever operative for the CIA. He gets a real assignment when he is told to go to the airport to meet an American spy, Charlie Wax, Travolta. Reece is to be Wax’s driver and ends up as his partner.
Wax is not what we would imagine as a spy. He has a shaved head, beard and a large silver earring to go along with his bling bling necklaces. Wax is in Paris to solve a problem with the daughter of an American official and to seek out and stop a terrorist attack on an international gathering in Paris. There are several scenes of endless gun shots and places being shot up. Reece has a beautiful French fiancé named Caroline played by Kasia Smutniak. Kasia is a Polish supermodel and is beautiful. She is unaware of Reece’s activity with the CIA or is she? She figures later in the film.
There is a car chase with a high powered Audi with Wax hanging out of the window with a grenade launcher. Unbelievable but remember folks this is only a movie. It is said that to enjoy fiction one must suspend disbelief. This principal is true with this film. Most of it is unbelievable but the combination of Travolta and Ryes-Myers works to make it fun. You will not see this movie at the Academy Awards but it is worth the price of a bag of popcorn.
Bruce Kantor owns Kantor & Associates in Matthews, NC.
