Reviews
Empire Magazine
Angue Errigio
"It’s absolute nonsense, of course, but does quite nicely as knockabout Friday night fun. We can smell a sequel if Travolta can be bothered."
01/03/2010
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The New York Times
Stephen Holden
"I 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. Even more than “Taken,” a kidnapping drama with the semblance of a heart, “From Paris With Love” wallows in action for action’s sake."
05/02/2010
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Time Out
David Jenkins
"With the story swiftly descending into a series of spuriously linked encounters in which the pair find themselves terrorised by many different ethnic minorities, the film is best when examining the unexpected chemistry between its unlikely leads. "
25/02/2010
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
"Pierre Morel’s film is likewise ordinary in its action sequences, but trashes enough rooms and blows up enough cars to be fun while it lasts."
28/02/2010
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Total Film
Aubrey Day
"Rubilliant. It means ‘something simultaneously rubbish and brilliant’. Don’t bother checking the dictionary; we just made it up. We needed a new word to describe the oeuvre of Luc Besson and DoP-cum-director Pierre Morel."
16/02/2010
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The Times
Tom Charity
"If anyone cares to take it seriously the politics would make Dick Cheney blush, but the real point is to relish Travolta going over the top, see Meyers earn his action movie spurs and ogle the ludicrously luscious Kasia Smutniak. As guilty pleasures go, mark it down as a rental."
27/02/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
"The body count (mostly Arab and Asian) would be sufficient to keep the local undertakers working overtime."
28/02/2010
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The Guardian
Cath Clarke
"I may have been distracted by the sleights of choreography and editing constructing action sequences around the none too nimble JT. But his trash-talking gusto – though a blatant Pulp Fiction pastiche – gives a bit of life to proceedings."
25/02/2010
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The Independent on Sunday
Demetrios Matheou
"As a government agent shooting up terrorists (that is, anyone who isn't white) in Paris, the star also sports a goatee that looks painted on. Whatever the all-action havoc he's creating, it's hard to take your eyes off his chin."
28/02/2010
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
"Is this a satire on amoral violence or a celebration of it? Regrettably, it's the latter, which should give you some idea of just how despicable this film is."
26/02/2010
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"The monotony is crowned by a predictable plot twist. Producer Luc Besson, maker of the similar but superior Nikita, conceived the original story. It should, like most of its characters, have been killed on sight."
26/02/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
"Jonathan Rhys Meyers, looking more than ever like a cruel mannequin, pairs up with a goateed, skinheaded, earring-sporting John Travolta, looking more than ever like a butch queen from New York’s West Village."
25/02/2010
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Variety
Andrew Barker
"Presumably pitched as a fusion of "Training Day" and "Crank 2" -- but ultimately nowhere near as fun as that premise probably sounds -- "From Paris With Love" practically strains itself to avoid doing anything the slightest bit innovative or clever."
28/01/2010
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