here's a great film:
 

had it on my desk for a few months... bought it then decided it would be a crap flick.... finally watched it the other day... great filck... better than most. the reviews aren't that great but this film kicks ass... unless you are trying to find out why your mom doesn't love you or some other creepy weird shit. this is an action film, not a girl/taking/flick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Paris_with_Love_(film)

Saw it. It was okay :)

PlotA personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. Reese wants to become a higher level agent with more responsibilities. As the result of a shortage of agents in France, he is assigned as a partner to special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).

Reese's first test is to have Wax released from airport detention by the French Customs when Wax does not want to surrender the cans of his favorite energy drink. Despite the apparent triviality of an energy drink that Wax could probably purchase in Paris, Wax continues to verbally abuse French Customs until Reese places a Diplomatic Mail sticker on Wax's luggage containing the energy drink, which makes them immune from Customs and Quarantine requirements.

Once in the car, Wax apologizes for his behavior while opening the tins and revealing the concealed pieces of his personal SIG Sauer, which he refers to as "Mrs. Jones". Wax explains that he has been sent to Paris to investigate a drug ring at least indirectly responsible for the death of a woman happening to be a niece of the Secretary of Defense.

During the investigation, Wax reveals that there was no overdose?their goal is to trace the money back to a circle of Pakistani terrorists. Evidence leads them to the terrorists, resulting in an armed confrontation in which most of the terrorists are neutralized. Wax and Reese learn that the terrorists plan to infiltrate the U.S. Embassy with explosives hidden beneath their burkas. As they collect evidence, they find photographs of Agent Reese pinned to a wall.

Ultimately, Reese learns that the terrorists are targeting a summit meeting. He discovers that his fiancee Caroline (Kasia Smutniak) is a "sleeper" agent assigned to live with him. When Caroline is confronted she shoots Reese, hitting him in the shoulder, and escapes through a window. A green Volvo picks her up on the street below.

Caroline attempts to detonate an explosive vest while the last remaining terrorist attacks a US motorcade traveling to the summit by speeding toward them in that same green Volvo wired with explosives. Wax destroys the vehicle with an AT4 rocket launcher just in the nick of time. Reese finds Caroline at the summit and attempts to dissuade her from carrying out her mission by professing his love. She attempts to detonate her vest anyway and forces Reese to shoot her through the forehead.

As Wax leaves Paris, Reese escorts him to his plane. Wax offers a full-time partnership. The two play a game of chess on the tarmac, placing their handguns on a utility cart, Reese revealing that he is now carrying a Desert Eagle pistol and earning another modicum of admiration from his new partner.

[edit] CastJohn Travolta as Charlie Wax
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as James Reese
Kasia Smutniak as Caroline
David Gasman as German Tourist/The Voice
Richard Durden as Ambassador Bennington
Yin Bing as M. Wong
Amber Rose Revah as Nichole
Eric Godon as Foreign Minister
Francois Bredon as The Thug
Chems Dahmani as Rashid (As Chems Eddine Dahmani)
Sami Darr as The Pimp
Julien Hagnery as Chinese Punk
Mostefa Stiti as Dir Yasin
Rebecca Dayan as Foreign Minister's Aide
Michael Vander-Meiren as Airport Security Official
Didier Constant as Customs Official
Alexandra Boyd as Head of the Delegation
Stephen Shagov as Embassy Security
Mike Powers as Embassy Security
Nick Loren as Chief of Security
Farid Elouardi as Bearded Driver
Melissa Mars as Wax's Hooker
Yin Hang as Asian Hooker 'German'
Frederic Chau as Chinese Maitre D
Tam Solo as Suicidal Pakistani
[edit] ReceptionThe film has received mixed reviews from different critics. The film holds a 'Rotten' rating of 37% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus being 'Though not without its charms?chief among them John Travolta's endearingly over-the-top performance?From Paris with Love is too muddled and disjointed to satisfy.'[2] Rolling Stone gave one star out of four, stating, 'From Paris With Love has no vital signs at all, just crushing dull repetition that makes one noisy, violent scene play exactly like the last one.'[3]

[edit] Box officeThe film opened in the US on February 5, 2010 and took $8,158,860 on its opening weekend, ranked #3 in the charts in 2,722 theaters. The movie was open in the US from February 5, 2010 until March 11, 2010, a total of 5 weeks. Its final US domestic gross was $24,077,427.[1] It also took just over $28m internationally for a worldwide total of $52,365,407- just grossing back its $52m budget. In July 2010 Parade Magazine listed the film as the #4 on its list of "Biggest Box Office Flops of 2010 (So Far)."[4]

[edit] DVDThe movie was released on DVD in the US on 8 June 2010 and has so far sold 624,791 units for a gross of $11,085,323 . It was the #3 biggest selling DVD in its opening week, behind Alice In Wonderland and Shutter Island, with 293,011 units sold. The movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 2 August 2010.

[edit] Possible sequelIn an interview with Celebrity Examiner, Luc Besson commented that he would love to see From Paris With Love turn into a franchise with sequels.

Travolta said in an interview with The Star Ledger: ?We could do, ?From London With Love,? ?From Prague With Love.? This is one of the only movies that I would enjoy as a franchise. I?m not a big sequel person, but this one I would love.?[5]

Travolta seems to do that sort of role really well.

I was doing my shopping and saw a DVD of this film so I bought it.....

Let you know later

Oh dear....

Clever boy wants to be spy, at last he gets his chance will real agent Wax, kill hundreds in senseless violence but it does not do it. Discover the real problem his french girl friend is sapping his manhood (arab bad guys, chinese drug lords - standard racist stereotypes )
kills girl and is happy being gay with Travolta.

All these films should have a gay sex scene at the end, chess indeed...


A true stinker....

Die Hard 4 - There's a film.

yeah, i liked it too... nice action movie...

sounds decent.

as long as you are looking for 'entertainment' it's a great movie... if you are tying to figure out why to wet the bed until you were 29, pass on it...

yes diehard 4 was great.. so was this film in a different way

Try Memento, any Coen Brothers film, Hitchcock,yes great films

Even Die Hard and Die Hard 4 - fantastic editing and sound for starts

Heat or Boogie Nights but NOT From Paris with Love.....

Trying to be cool (Leon ?) but being just dumb....

It takes inteligence to make a great thriller not formula.

Why not just have the bad guys wear blacks hats if the director can't be bothered to give them any motivation or explanation for their insane hatred of us wonderful people of the west....

The truth is so much more interesting and can lead to great drama "Three Kings" or try "The International"

I saw it, its a pretty good action flick:thumbsup

all-right trying it right now, it's on netflix for folks that have that sorta of thing.

I only like films that I can swallow, without having to take a mouthfull of liquid...

Paris is romantic.

lol you call this a great movie what a joke

the acting was worse than it is in porn. there are far too many good action flicks out to waste time on this one.

The Mechanic, Faster, Green Hornet, Iron Man 2, Sniper Reloaded. Even MacGruber had better acting.

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Yup, it was a pretty good action movie.

couldn't even finish watching the green hornet :thumbsup

So how do you find a film like "The Killer Inside Me" ?

was a good movie

I liked the book. read it about 30 years ago... found the pace of the movie to be way to slow to retain any interest on my part.... sure did look great though

I'd play it while doing something else ...

good plan... quick pace, that's what I liked about it..

then u must hate cars lol

:thumbsup

Why buy it when you could watch it on netflix streaming?

I saw "Hot Tub Time Machine" and thought of you....

It had some funny moments.....

A really good film I just saw "The Bad Lieutenant".

MacGruber, one of the funniest films I've seen this year! :thumbsup

I've heard different opinions on this film, but I'm kinda interested in watching it