Harry Potter The Moives

A furiously action packed film, From Paris with Love takes the audience on a wild ride all the way through with its fast paced unforgettable scenes and many blazing guns. For lovers of action movies that carry some suspense and other scenes that are a cause for much debate afterward, this is the movie to see.

One of the main characters, James Reese, is played by Golden Globe Best Actor award winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The character James Reese is the personal aide assisting the U. S. Ambassador to France, and his dedication to his work has the Ambassador's full trust and confidence in his flawless efficiency.

However, Reese is also ambitious and willing to play his own quiet game of cat and mouse as he takes on minor assignments from the CIA, attempting to become an official CIA agent someday. His job as an aide allows for him to use his influence in some of the assignments given, and he is restless to succeed in his goal to be part of the CIA. His fiancee, Caroline (Kasia Smutniak), knows everything about him and he trusts her completely with his secrets, especially since the assignments sometimes take him away from her at unexpected hours.

The otherwise quietly exciting secret life of James Reese takes a completely different turn once he finally gets his big break from his CIA contact who assigns him a CIA special agent as a partner, Charlie Wax. Wax is an uncouth, misbehaving yet effective agent, played by multi-awarded actor John Travolta.

John Travolta does justice to this movie as his grand appearance as an uncouth, misbehaving but effective CIA agent takes control and the action scenes start pumping. The movie takes a sudden fast paced vibration as Charlie Wax begins to take his mission on a roll.

Wax enters the scene with his rude behavior toward French customs officials as he inadvertently gets detained for canned health drinks (it is discovered later that these cans are containers for a concealed weapon). Reese finds his hands full when Wax insists he get him past customs with all canned drinks intact, and refuses to leave without them, calling the French officers all sorts of names and insults. The scene ends with Reese finding a better approach to the situation by giving the canned items a diplomatic pouch status.

Reese is then taken on a whirlwind spin around the city as Wax uncovers one drug den after another, obviously searching for bigger fish, under the pretense that he is on a mission off the record for an angry diplomat whose daughter was victimized by a drug ring. Obnoxious and completely taking no effort to cover up his tracks, Wax eventually confides to Reese that the drug busting only scratches the surface of a deeper 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.

The entire story comes full circle when a suicide bomber actually succeeds in making it into the U. S. Embassy in the guise of a delegate attending a summit. It also reaches its climax when Reese comes to the conclusion that it is his fiancee who has been chosen to die for the cause.

Reese takes it upon himself to try and talk Caroline out of her original plan to trigger the bomb on her body, but to no avail, she still takes the attempt and he is forced to shoot her at close range. Saving the day, Wax shows up from behind to catch her fall and disarms the bomb, ending the threat to the summit.

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.