From Paris With Love
Monday, March 1, 2010 at 01:35PM ;)
Unless you live in a box under a motorway flyover you'll know that John Travolta catapulted to fame in the 70's with the likes of Carrie, Saturday Night Fever and Grease but by the late 80's the roles had dried up and come 1993 he'd completed the worst fucking trilogy known to man with those fucking shite films with talking babies in. When Tarantino cast him in Pulp Fiction Travolta was once more on the fame bandwagon and began to make good films again. Of course since he raped the arse of the world with that bollocks about Scientology his career has been up and down. Now From Paris With Love is no classic by any means but fuck me it's good to see the man enjoying himself again and From Paris With Love is the first ridiculous fun film of 2010.
Pierre Morel who gave us the rather fucking good Taken keeps his action in Paris but plays it with tongue firmly in his frog leg eating cheek. James Reece (Jonathan Ryhs Meyers) is a US government employee working for the ambassador in France (well that's fucking obvious considering it's called From Paris With Love) who has to team up with top operative Charlie Wax (Travolta) to stop a terrorist attack in the heart of Paris. What follows is 90 minutes of pure fucking action of the most stupid kind as Reece quickly discovers Wax has his own unique methods of dealing with things. Watching Travolta shoot, punch and swear his way through drug dealers, street gangs and nasty middle eastern looking dudes is worth the admission alone.
Now understand From Paris With Love is no fucking masterpiece and the story gets a little fucking pathetic at the end but it's rare that I sit down and watch a film and am actually entertained by it. Films now are either to fucking pretentious for their own good or full of so much CGI that I just end up nursing a fucking monster headache. By the look of the release schedule for 2010 I'm wondering if Hollywood is actually beginning to notice that sometimes we just want a bit of good violent fun and From paris With Love is just that. Watching Reece spend half the film wandering about through shootout after shootout with a vase full of cocaine is a nice little touch and the film is so fucking silly that you don't actually question this rather stupid situation and that's the film in a nutshell really. It's so silly and pointless that you see it for what it is and watch out for the great dinner sequence with Reece, his fiance,Wax and one of her friends. It's cinematic gold!
The twist is more obvious than Snakes porn preferances but who gives a shit. My advice forget what you've read from those up their own arse critics, grab a beer and a couple of mates and lose yourself in 2010 first guilty pleasure. I enjoyed it and I don't fucking care whether people agree or not. If this is the kind of film I've got to look forward to then fucking bring it on because it seems to me the 80's are back big time and it's fucking great that I could actually watch a film that isn't in fucking 3D.
I'll Give It My Fucking Love out of 5
Reader Comments (10)
A very honest review. It's been slated across the board pretty much.
Watching this tonight... I'll be back. Get to the chopper. I lied.
It has been slated but I just fucking wish these twats wouldn't take everything so fucking seriously. I love all kinds of cinema but when you can't be fucking arsed to think there's nothing beats a bit of escapism.
Definitely checking this out now
Dunno Taken was stupid fun and that didn't get the same slating.
Fuck me that was good fun. The Eighties are certainly back! I was totally sold the second it did the sniffing of the fired gun in slow motion. Class.
As DM mentioned could see the plot twist coming a country mile away but if you leave your brain at the door, you're in for a treat.
FUCK 3D
You see Rob we'll always give an honest opinion here at FOF. It's exactly what it is good fucking fun. Glad you liked it.
FUCK YEH! Thanks for giving this the review it deserved.
I wouldn't have bothered checking this out if is wasn't for my faith in FOF!
Just plain good old action without all the bullshit!
Thanks Jay. We always give our opinion and generally fuck everyone elses.
Shit just saw this film last night. It's unbelievable bad. I actually can't believe you've managed to find anything positive about it.
The acting is bad, the music is bad, the action sequences are repetitive and boring, the script is AWFUL, the plot is non-existent and doesn't really make any sense. And all this from Luc Besson. I'm appalled that he could make such a shit film.