From Paris With Love , the review ( Spoiler Warning! ) | 2,5 minutes reading

If i have to sum this one and half hours movie up in a sentence , that would be 'Johnie saves the day'. Yes, only one John instead of two, the older one. I watched this movie with expectation that the french, they got good taste in making action movies, especially Luc Besson's, regarding his previous works such as Taxi, Yamakasi, Transporter. But well, it turned to be a lot less than what i expected. Too many odd, duping and annoying scenes a la holywood. And worse, they're on the opening and the climax. Come on, after talking about Fisher 's attack to Sparsky while anxiously staring at the chess board in front of which he seems to spend the last 40 years of his life, he's amazed of being checkmated like he'd never saw it coming. That's an utter classic rubbish. That's an ambassador too we're talking about. They must be forgot to give him some brain damage test, if the dumbass ever has one.

The climax, oh good lord, too cheesy, especially for supposed to be an action movie. If you are a suicide bomber, you dont want to talk any kind of crap with anyone, let alone the sexy guy you shooted the day before. Just blow yourself and get your heaven along with a jaw dropping sad ending movie. No chit chat, no tears, no overdramatizing for soap opera maniac. Don't you ever watch those bunch of ugly holywoond climax scenes? I tell you this, if you're a villain in an action movie and you have the good guy under your mercy, finish him immediately , end the movie and get your early shower. Dont either say or listen a word, or else you'll end up in the losing side. Thats a trivial tip from me, and that's free.

Okay the main course, the story and the action. Well, actually story's hardly an issue in an action movie. As for this movie, the story is far from special. Supposed to be surprising and little bit twisted at the end, but nah, i wasn't surprised at all. And nothing fascinating about the plot. You can simply watch this movie empty-headed,open-mouthed, and runny-nosed. And how about the action? I could hardly see the difference with playing virtual cop in my old pc."Dont shoot, aarrgghh". As the hero, u'll have nothing to worry about, since all the villains are clumpsy, noisy, never get any cover for gunshot, low paid just to be dead, and swear their shot will never hit you. You can beat and kill them all while updating your facebook status on the process. Some scenes earn my "oh" but none of them earn my "wow".

In the other side, the picture, screenplay, score, cinematography, technically they are fine, not boring, enjoyable. If there's any highlight from this movie is Frank Sinatara's played on the Wax's car during the romp. And last but most, John Travolta still has it. He enlights the movie on his own. His western spastic jokes are byting. Hence, Johnie saves the day. At the very end this movie is watchable yet skippable. There goes my fifteen grands.

i rate 6 of 10 (that's if someone treat me the ticket)