Paris,
young employee of the American Embassy team up with a veteran spy.
The plot
makes completely no sense, there is no characterization and I’m not really sure
what happened in this movie…
But in end
I don’t really care because it was such fun. Luc Besson established a strange
industry down there in France. He, and his collaborators, regularly churns out
action movie after action movie. The quality often is not there but they have
such an ease with the right scenes and the witty one liner. I think that
nowadays they are unparalleled in this particular field.
This one is
only written by Besson while the Director is Taken’s Pierre Morel. As a whole
it’s worse than Taken, it’s less gritty and misses the unifying driving force
that was Liam Neeson “Save the daughter” plot, but on the other side is much
funnier and overtly over the top.
Travolta is
still good as the main action hero; he had to shave his head for the part but none
the less is impressive that a 57 years old man is still credible as an ass
kicking machine.
The
intention was the start a new movie franchise with titles like “From London
with love”, “From Prague with love” etc. Considering that the box office result
has been tepid I don’t know it’ll happen but we can still hope because Besson
and Co. brought back the fun in the action movie department.
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