Red Band Trailer - 'From Paris With Love'

Next February, a year after Taken arrived in US theaters, director Pierre Morel has another Euraction movie you might want to keep your eye on. It's called From Paris with Love, it stars Tron Javolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and it has one of the coolest posters around. Travolta plays a US intelligence agent stationed in France, and he certainly does things his own way. Rhys Meyers is the counterpoint, a rather low-ranking, by-the-book operative who has to try babysitting the brusque America, which is akin to herding cats...that are armed with explosives. As I mentioned, the film comes out February 5th, and from the new Red Band trailer, it appears to have a lot more laughs than Taken, which wouldn't be hard to achieve. Again, Morel has teamed with Luc Besson and together they're kind of fashioning quite a cottage industry here of affordable action movies that can find audiences worldwide. That's a smart way of doing business even if it's not the most outside-the-box thinking in the world.
Trailer courtesy of Trailer Addict As much as I have difficulty with a lot of Travolta's post-Pulp Fiction career, he does have talent, so maybe he's on the right track here. Usually, with wild cards, Barbarino is at his worst. But we'll see. I like Rhys Meyers, who should be a bigger star by now. So good as Elvis, that guy. The trailer does smack of every buddy cop movie since Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, but if it ain't broke, I guess...

Comments

[SEAN]

Agree with the Rhys Meyers sentiment completely...it still fascinates me how some actors become big stars and others just dont when they have the same level as talent & looks as the ones who do become big stars....

The best poster around without a doubt...

[i love film]

looks like a horrible blow up shit and take no names action version of Training Day rip off with horrible writing

[Get The Big Picture]

Hello black, kettle calling. Seriously, how long does it take to punctuate sentences?

[sammydb]

how many freaking times are they gonna say "wax" in that trailer?!? goodness...

[Get The Big Picture]

Yes, I noticed that. My eyebrows were thisclose to being metrosexualized by osmosis.

[sammydb]

ha ha.