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75Stoopid fun, From Paris With Love doesn't do much for Paris or love, or your brain cells, but it flies like a crazed eagle on uppers and comes from the talented, propulsive schlocketeer Pierre Morel.
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75Morel and his crew certainly know how to stage action: the fight scenes and shootouts, the stairwell pursuits and motorway mayhem, are as good, if not better, than anything to come out of Hong Kong in a long time.
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75It's pure comic book/popcorn action. If that's your kind of movie, it's hard to go wrong with this one.
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70Morel will inevitably be compared to John Woo, whom he trounces. He has fewer mannerisms (no damn doves) and a keener eye; his fastest, most kinetic shots flow together like frames in a flipbook.
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He (Morel) brings in lobotomized entertainment at 90-odd minutes. During the February doldrums, this cannot be underestimated.
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70I am ashamed to admit that this empty-headed, preposterous, possibly evil mélange of gunplay and high-speed car chases on Parisian boulevards is a feel-good movie that produces a buzz.
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63Generic but breezily entertaining.
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60It's absolute nonsense, of course, but does quite nicely as knockabout Friday night fun. We can smell a sequel if Travolta can be bothered.
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60John Travolta breaks the braggadocio meter in the latest tightly wound actioner from "Taken's" Pierre Morel.
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58With his flamboyant ridiculousness, Travolta does, however, give From Paris With Love a pulse, which is more than can be said for the film's petulant hero, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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50Travolta has/is a blast in an action-thriller-comedy that otherwise comes up short.
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50I hasten to say this is not criticism of John Travolta. He succeeds in this movie by essentially acting in a movie of his own.
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50It's a hyper-violent buddy comedy. If you like that sort of thing -- think "Training Day," with laughs -- you'll love this.
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50This is the sort of asinine action exercise that needs a star to blow up cars and leap from rooftop to rooftop with gusto.
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50Basically a bloody buddy picture that tries too hard.
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50Doesn't really know what it wants to be. Morel would have done better to remember the "to thine own self be true" bit, and stayed with the dunderheaded shoot-'em-up vibe, with Travolta having a blast, often literally.
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50A ''fun trash'' movie that's more trash than fun.
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50To his credit, Travolta hams it up with the kind of laissez-faire irony that might have made the film a tongue-in-cheek pleasure, had his attitude extended to the filmmakers.
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50No movie star appears to have more fun in a crap movie than John Travolta, and his inimitable my-check-has-cleared! glee is the best thing about this lame espionage thriller.
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42Amid all the mayhem, there is Paris in all its faded-light glory. Is the movie worth seeing as a travelogue? Only if you are (a) a masochist, (b) a terrorist, or (c) desperate.
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40If so inclined for a breezy, violent time-waster audiences could do worse. Travolta sadly can do so much better.
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40The film is so self-referencing, however, that a running gag about Wax/Travolta craving a "royale with cheese" moves the film's energy backward rather than forward. Perhaps instead it was a reference to the film's nutritional value rather than its screen precedents.
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40This pickpocket of a movie flashes open its coat to proudly display all its swiped goodies.
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38So leaden and obnoxious that it actually makes you long for the John Travolta of "Old Dogs."
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30Still, the action is ponderous too. Mr. Morel is no Kubrick, or Tarantino, just as Mr. Travolta's caricature of John Travolta is no Travolta.
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25Has no vital signs at all, just crushing dull repetition that makes one noisy, violent scene play exactly like the last one.
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25John Travolta's From Paris With Love assassin/ superagent Charlie Wax is the master of whatever the opposite of wisecracking is. Fooljoshing? Lametalking? Flatlining?
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25Holes in the script, overwrought camera work, dialogue that's embarrassing, and a plot device that's obvious 10 minutes into the movie - all these are major problems.
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25The one thing that's briefly enjoyable about From Paris with Love is John Travolta's appearance. In a black leather jacket, with a shaved bald head and a goatee and a perpetual scarf to hide his jowls, he looks like a well-fed pimp or a gay bear.
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20This sock-it-to-'em souffle falls very quickly, unless watching Travolta trying on another faux-hip look is considered fun.
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20Both mean-spirited and self-conscious. It's all style and no soul, which wouldn't be a problem if its style at least gave us something to look at, or to laugh at. But From Paris With Love, filmed on location in Paris, has a raggedy, greasy, dingy look: It's the movie equivalent of an unbathed, unshaven French boyfriend (the bad kind). It thinks it's suave, but it just smells bad.
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0We all know how rotten today's movies can be, but even at the bottom of the slag pit, you won't find a load of garbage any smellier than From Paris With Love.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 31
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Mixed: 5 out of 31
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Negative: 4 out of 31
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"From Paris with Love" is a weak film compared to those French action films such as "Leon", or "Nikita", but at least it passes the average grade.