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There’s no logic, rhyme or reason to much of what happens in Pierre Morel’s From Paris with Love, his kinetic shoot ‘em up actioner released almost exactly one year after his nearly $150 million 2009 hit Taken. And as much as I enjoyed Taken for its absurd-yet-entertaining action, From Paris with Love is an even more enjoyable film thanks primarily to John Travolta’s willingness to go full tilt, making up for the distraction that is Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s attempt at an American accent. Morel knows how to handle this kind of over-the-top story and the dialogue is entertaining enough it rarely allows you the opportunity to take a deeper look at what’s really going on, which is to say not all the pieces necessarily fit together.
Travolta plays Charlie Wax, an American “fixer” of sorts, sent around the world on special missions where body count isn’t necessarily a concern as much as getting the job done. Rhys Meyers plays James Reece, an intelligence operative undercover as an aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France. Occasionally called on for side jobs, Reece gets more than he’s used to when he’s asked to serve as Wax’s partner when duty assigns him to Paris. A cocaine crime lord is the immediate concern, but things change as clues are revealed and the bodies begin to stack up… and they do stack up.
Armed with guns, one-liners and little concern for personal safety, Wax’s motto is shoot first and never ask questions, which makes for a solid bit of fun, especially since Morel is more interested in keeping things moving than with literal bloodshed. From Paris with Love gets its R-rating primarily due to language and one bloody head wound you wouldn’t typically find in a PG-13 rated actioner of this sort. Taken was a rather violent film, but much of the violence happened off screen, which I guess is fine with the MPAA as they must assume people’s imaginations just aren’t that clever (yeah, right!). Paris gives you bullet-riddled bodies, but isn’t interested in an all out slaughter, and this is a definite bonus because there is much more fun to be had with action films than simply watching CG blood fly.
Producer and co-writer of Taken, Luc Besson, came up with the story which was scripted by Adi Hasak whose last credited work was 1997’s Shadow Conspiracy, but Besson’s fingers are all over this. Known for producing such films as Transporter and District 13 (also directed by Morel) and directing The Fifth Element and Leon, you should know what you’re walking into with this one. There isn’t so much an attention to making sure things make sense, as much as making sure things remain entertaining. For example, if The Hurt Locker taught us anything, explosive belts aren’t easy to disarm, had they been as easy to disarm as they are in From Paris with Love I’m not sure Hurt Locker would be up for Oscar’s Best Picture.
From Paris with Love isn’t a great film, but it’s certainly a fun one. Ignore the forced delivery of Rhys Meyers’s American accent, ignore his nonsensical final speech on love and just bask in the chaos Travolta brings and somehow gets away with and you will be hard-pressed to not walk out of Watch From Paris with Love (2010) Online.
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Posted in Film · February 11th, 2010 · Comments (0)
In 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, a lush, Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus. Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) heads the mining operation, and it employs former marines for security. The corporation intends to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a valuable mineral called unobtanium. Pandora is inhabited by the Na’vi, a blue-skinned neolithic species of sapient humanoids with feline characteristics. Physically stronger and taller than humans, the Na’vi live in harmony with Nature, worshiping a mother goddess called Eywa.
Humans cannot survive exposure to Pandora’s atmosphere for very long and use oxygen masks. In an attempt to improve relations with the natives, scientists create human-Na’vi hybrids called avatars, controlled by genetically-matched human operators. The scientists also lead schools for the Na’vi to learn English and to interact with the humans. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic former marine, becomes a last-minute replacement for his identical twin brother, a recently-murdered scientist trained to be an avatar operator. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement for his brother, and relegates him to a bodyguard role.
Jake escorts Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) on an exploratory mission in their avatar forms to make contact with the Na’vi, in order to help establish diplomatic relations to solve the problem of resources and end the constant threat of violence. The group is attacked by a large predator, and Jake becomes separated and lost. Attempting to survive the night in Pandora’s dangerous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), a female Na’vi. Neytiri brings Jake to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri’s clan, the Omaticaya. Mo’at (C. C. H. Pounder), the Na’vi shaman and Neytiri’s mother, shows interest in the warrior “Dream-walker” (their term for the Avatars), and instructs her daughter to teach Jake their ways. Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), leader of the security forces for RDA, promises Jake his “real legs” back in exchange for intelligence about the natives and what it will take for them to abandon Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.
Over three months, Jake grows close to Neytiri and the Omaticaya and begins preferring the life he lives through the avatar. Jake’s attachment erodes his loyalty toward RDA’s agenda. He is initiated into the Omaticaya, and he and Neytiri choose each other as mates. Jake’s change of loyalty is revealed when he disables a bulldozer’s cameras as it destroys the tribe’s ‘Tree of Voices’. Col. Quaritch disconnects Jake from his avatar and presents Selfridge and Dr. Augustine with a vlog in which Jake admits that his mission is fruitless; the humans have nothing the Omaticaya desire, and they will never abandon Hometree. Selfridge is convinced that negotiations will fail and orders Hometree’s destruction.
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Posted in Film · January 19th, 2010 · Comments (0)