Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Action Movie From Paris With Love

By Victoria Skinner

One of the most recent action packed movie productions of 2010, From Paris with Love keeps its audience riveted and clinging to their seats. The fast paced, high energy roles of its main stars keep the heartbeat at a speedy rate all throughout the movie.

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.

Unknown to his employer, Reese has a sideline ambition to become a full fledged CIA operative and he has been taking on minor assignments during his diplomatic capacity as an aide. All of this activity is shared in confidence with his lovely French fiancee Caroline (played by Kasia Smutniak).

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.

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.

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.

Wax proceeds to attack one drug den after another, telling Reese he is on a special "offline" mission for a high government official whose daughter was a victim of the drug ring. After making it obvious that he is after something deeper, Reese finally manages to get Wax to tell him the actual truth about the 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.

Caroline turns out to be the suicide bomber who manages to infiltrate the U. S. Embassy during a summit, and she mingles with the crowd with planned accuracy, waiting for the perfect time. Reese then realizes that it is his fiancee who has used his pass to gain access to the U. S. Embassy, and tries to make his way in through security to stop her.

The movie takes a turn towards the dramatic as Reese tries to convince Caroline not to activate the bomb, and that her life means so much more to him. Regardless she still tries to activate the bomb and Reese is compelled to shoot her point blank, killing her and watching her fall. As she falls, Wax comes up from behind and catches her, and later disarms the bomb.

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. - 40727

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