Nashville From Paris With Love

Movie Showtimes

Genre: Action/Adventure
Release Date: 02/05/2010
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Melissa Mars, Amber Rose Revah, Farid Elouardi
Producer: Luc Besson, India Osborne
Writer: Luc Besson, Adi Hasak
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Offical Site: Click Here
Watch Trailer
Buy Tickets

Box Office

Alice in Wonderland, 62.7 mil, 209.3 mil
Green Zone, 14.3 mil, 14.3 mil
She's Out of My League, 9.8 mil, 9.8 mil
Shutter Island, 8.1 mil, 108.0 mil
Remember Me, 8.1 mil, 8.1 mil
Our Family Wedding, 7.6 mil, 7.6 mil
Avatar, 6.5 mil, 730.3 mil
Brooklyn's Finest, 4.5 mil, 21.5 mil
Cop Out, 4.3 mil, 39.5 mil
The Crazies, 3.7 mil, 33.4 mil

Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

From Paris With Love

Producer/writer Luc Besson and director Pierre Morel forged a surprise hit with Taken, a taut B movie that featured unusual casting (Liam Neeson as a spy equally fiery and sentimental) and emphasized character interaction rather than guns, gadgets and girls. Their latest encounter lacks Taken's heart and verve, serving instead as a showcase for John Travolta's manic riffing as an unreconstructed Cold Warrior who's been at war too long. Sporting a shaved head and spouting borderline racist and xenophobic comments, Travolta's Charlie Wax is a James Bond knockoff minus the veneer of sophistication. But he's still an effective figure as he roams the world cleaning up messes caused by diplomats and bureaucrats — a task that forces him to align with a naļve, brainy ambassador’s aide (the terrific Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) to thwart a terrorist plot aimed at an upcoming summit. The fast-moving narrative unfolds briskly enough to clear the necessary leaps in logic and continuity that ensue as Wax goes from being G.I. Joe to Sherlock Holmes. Even so, the storyline's intersection of drug dealers and Islamic jihadists is thematically wobbly, and some of Wax's statements about impending Armaggedon are patently offensive. Besson and Morel know their audience, and they insert plenty of the genre's staples into their mix, including umpteen shootouts, martial arts sequences and car chases. But somehow I doubt Travolta’s catchphrase "Wax on, Wax off" will be replacing "shaken, not stirred" anytime soon in the hip spy dictionary. — Ron Wynn