To be honest, the only reason to really watch From Paris With Love is to see John Travolta's crazy-ass over-the-top performance as bad-ass government agent Charlie Wax who prefers to play by his own rules (sound familiar?). The overall plot of this flick is rather murky. I mean, one minute Wax and his rookie partner is chasing drug dealers and the next minute they're chasing terrorists (which leads to a "twist" ending that you can actually see coming a mile away!). With a better script, this could've been a much better movie and could've possibly led to sequels. Travolta himself, who usually shuns doing sequels to his movies (the earlier-reviewed Wild Hogs NOT withstanding!), even hinted that he would've liked to have done more Charlie Wax movies. But, given the movie's rather lackluster box office performance, that isn't likely to happy anytime soon. Oh well! Film-viewers will just have to be happy with this one film with the rather memorable character Charlie Wax.
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