Movie Information
Overall Rank: 9104
Average Rating: 2.4/4
# of Ratings: 100
Theatrical Release Date: 02/05/2010
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 06/08/2010
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pierre Morel
Actors: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Amber Rose Revah, Melissa Mars, Farid Elouardi
Plot: A low-ranking member of the US ambassador office in France finds himself teamed up with a high-ranking spy in an attempt to prevent a terrorist attack. -- Chris Kavan
Quick Movie Reviews
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1.5/4
Unknown - wrote on 04/16/2011
You've got a fun Travolta performance here, but everything else is by-the-numbers and bland.
Rating of
2/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 03/27/2011
If you'd like to see John Travolta curse up a storm and kill indiscriminately, here's your movie. It tries to throw in a few twists, but really, it's just a lot of shooting and cursing with a loose story about terrorism thrown in for good measure.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
"From Paris With Love" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/24/2011
A wannabe special ops field agent is partnered with a specialist to root out a terrorist cell intent on assassinating a peace conference in gay Paris. Very much in the same vein as 80s chalk and cheese buddy cop movies written by the likes of Shane Black, From Paris With Love is similarly misogynistic and gratuitously violent as wise cracking super agent Travolta teaches lily livered liberal Rhys Myers how to become a trigger happy Nazi in order to "get the job done". The result is a cross between Training Day and The Rookie for spies, and as usual the old "terrorism" card is played to excuse the indiscriminate slaughter of everyone they come across, while John does his wacky hitman schtick anyone who has seen Broken Arrow or Swordfish will be familiar with. The direction is decent and …
Rating of
2/4
"From Paris With Love" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/24/2011
A wannabe special ops field agent is partnered with a specialist to root out a terrorist cell intent on assassinating a peace conference in gay Paris. Very much in the same vein as 80s chalk and cheese buddy cop movies written by the likes of Shane Black, From Paris With Love is similarly misogynistic and gratuitously violent as wise cracking super agent Travolta teaches lily livered liberal Rhys Myers how to become a trigger happy Nazi in order to "get the job done". The result is a cross between Training Day and The Rookie for spies, and as usual the old "terrorism" card is played to excuse the indiscriminate slaughter of everyone they come across, while John does his wacky hitman schtick anyone who has seen Broken Arrow or Swordfish will be familiar with. The direction is decent and …
Rating of
2/4
"From Paris With Love" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/24/2011
A wannabe special ops field agent is partnered with a specialist to root out a terrorist cell intent on assassinating a peace conference in gay Paris. Very much in the same vein as 80s chalk and cheese buddy cop movies written by the likes of Shane Black, From Paris With Love is similarly misogynistic and gratuitously violent as wise cracking super agent Travolta teaches lily livered liberal Rhys Myers how to become a trigger happy Nazi in order to "get the job done". The result is a cross between Training Day and The Rookie for spies, and as usual the old "terrorism" card is played to excuse the indiscriminate slaughter of everyone they come across, while John does his wacky hitman schtick anyone who has seen Broken Arrow or Swordfish will be familiar with. The direction is decent and …
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