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	<title>Andy at The Movies &#187; Pierre Morel</title>
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		<title>Movie Review (Dan&#8217;s Take): From Paris With Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Paris with Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Travolta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those French. They may look down their collective noses at fat Americans, but they sure do love the way we get s**t done. Luc Besson&#8211; cinema&#8217;s most prolific Frenchman&#8211; has unleashed another action drenched story template (ala Taken, The Transporter) and cozied up with his &#8220;Besson School of Filmmaking&#8221; graduate Pierre Morel (Taken and the upcoming Dune remake) to offer up the guiltily pleasurable From Paris With Love. Together, Besson and Morel massage French-American relations like it&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s business. If there was ever an homage to the American action stereotype, From Paris With Love is it; a story-lite action flick that knows exactly what it wants to be and clocks in with a lean and functionally breezy 95 minutes to deliver the goods. Morel&#8217;s crafted a movie that placates its American audience with backslapping proclamations like &#8220;We saved your frog leg eating asses in two World Wars!&#8221; and gun-loaded, badly behaved, star-spangled ass kicking, but alternately winks at its French viewers with a nod of &#8220;stupid cowboys&#8221;. It&#8217;s panderingly duplicitous&#8230; and it works. From Paris introduces us to James Reece (Irishman Jonathan Rhys Meyers&#8211; vocally straining himself to nail an American accent). Reece is smart (hello! the dude plays a mean game of chess and has a pencil mustache). Reece is romancing a hot French girlfriend who&#8217;s gaga over him. Reece is completely uninteresting. He&#8217;s also a diplomatic attache at the American embassy in Paris.  But Reece ain&#8217;t got no time for silly diplomatic flimflam&#8211; he also moonlights as an errand boy for a super-secret U.S. intelligence agency. Young, hungry and inexperienced, Reece pines for a shot at the sexy stuff: blowing holes in things under the guise of U.S.secret agent/special ops. Reece also believes in The Secret, as just by thinking about spy games and changing a few license plates, he gets a call up to the bigs. An anonymous handler offers him the secret agent promotion he&#8217;s been begging for&#8211; right in the middle of his very French girlfriend&#8217;s marriage proposal. All Reece needs to do is meet his new partner at the airport and tag along for the ride. Once the mission is accomplished, he&#8217;s in&#8211; no paperwork necessary. Reese high-tails it to the airport only to find his new partner, Charlie Wax (John Travolta), all juiced up on energy drinks, bravado and a laser-focused dedication to verbally abuse French Customs Agents with a potty-mouth gangsta performance on loan from The Taking of Pelham 123. Soon, the two are on their way to a day of busting cocaine syndicates and Pakistani terrorist cells. Reece quickly discovers, however, secret agent stuff is less James Bond and more John McClane. Wax is rowdy. He&#8217;s the kind of spec ops lone wolf that only exist in movies like this: chrome domed, goatee&#8217;d badasses who bare-handedly takes down a gaggle of gang members (at once!), snorts coke, talks jive, ravishes hookers and leaps through hails of machine gun fire without taking a scuff&#8211; all while delivering lead death, on target, to...]]></description>
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		<title>From Paris With Love French Redband Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Paris with Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not dying to see From Paris with Love, but I will admit, a bald-headed, foul-mouthed, nasty John Travolta is much better than the goofy, hair-plugged Travolta in Wild Hogs and Old Dogs. From Paris with Love is directed by Pierre Morel and also stars Johnathan Rhys Meyers (Mission: Impossible III) and hits theaters on February 5, 2010. Morel was the director of last year’s Taken, starring Liam Neeson. According to IMDB.com, he is set to direct the remake of Dune, taking over for Peter Berg (Hancock) who is too busy with his next film, Battleship. Yes, based on the Parker Brothers game. Yes, I think that movie sounds stupid. Any other questions? Good. Now watch the French redband trailer for From Paris with Love and let me know if I’m wrong thinking this could be kind of fun.]]></description>
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