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.

Thinking that he may be up for that real CIA promotion to agent, Reese accepts another assignment wherein he is given a partner (played by established actor, John Travolta). Reese does not realize how his life is about to take a very drastic turn the moment he meets up with his partner, Charlie Wax.

The presence of Travolta in the movie alone will give the audience an idea on how the plot is about to thicken and how things are about to get exciting. Sure enough, the movie starts to move at a death-defying rate once Charlie Wax makes his appearance.

Wax begins to take Reese on a wild ride from the very beginning, as Reese is forced to use diplomatic influence to pull him past customs officials who detain him for bringing in canned drinks. Wax begins to show Reese the real and brutal side of secret agent work that all begins when he assembles his gun "Mrs. Jones" from the very same canned drinks that caused trouble with French customs. Armed and on a mission, Wax hunts down and eliminates goons in a Chinese restaurant that houses a drug syndicate.

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.

The truth is finally revealed when Wax tells Reese about his real purpose, which is to find a group of terrorists that has a plot to bomb the U. S. Embassy in France, and are apparently being financed by sales of cocaine. It is later on that Reese finally learns that his fiancee also plays a role and is a member of this terrorist group, willing to die for a cause.

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.

James Reese goes through many changes in his character as this movie progresses, as he slowly comes to realize that being a secret agent is a brutal game that needs to be played wisely. By the end of this movie, Reese becomes a changed man and begins to take on traits not far from those of Charlie Wax. - 40725

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