Tuesday, September 21, 2010

From Paris With Love - Action Packed

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 opens with James Reese, a seemingly mild and efficient diplomatic personal aide who does his job so well that he has won the complete confidence and trust of his employer. Played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, this Golden Globe award winner executes his character with dedicated charm.

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.

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.

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. - 40728

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