JamesG
02-05-2010, 07:45 PM
Movie Reviews: From Paris With Love
Critics have barely finished polishing off John Travolta's last movie, Old Dogs, when here comes another one that they're kicking around.
Joe Neumaier in the New York Post clearly has no love for From Paris With Love, which he says has "the patchwork plotting of grade-schoolers making up a game at recess."
He adds: "This sock-it-to-'em souffle falls very quickly, unless watching Travolta trying on another faux-hip look is considered fun."
Claudia Puig in USA Today, while calling the movie "leaden and obnoxious" trains her guns primarily on Travolta, who, she says, "overplays his trigger-happy, racist, sexist character so much that he qualifies as one of the most annoying screen presences ever."
Liam Lacey in the Toronto Globe and Mail describes that presence: "In a black leather jacket, with a shaved bald head and a goatee and a perpetual scarf to hide his jowls, he looks like a well-fed pimp or a gay bear."
On the other hand, Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, while calling the movie "stoopid fun," writes that it doesn't do much for Paris or love, or your brain cells, but it flies like a crazed eagle on uppers."
Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes that director Pierre Morel delivers "all screech and no suspense, takedown without buildup, pure slam, bam, merci madame."
-IMDB News
Critics have barely finished polishing off John Travolta's last movie, Old Dogs, when here comes another one that they're kicking around.
Joe Neumaier in the New York Post clearly has no love for From Paris With Love, which he says has "the patchwork plotting of grade-schoolers making up a game at recess."
He adds: "This sock-it-to-'em souffle falls very quickly, unless watching Travolta trying on another faux-hip look is considered fun."
Claudia Puig in USA Today, while calling the movie "leaden and obnoxious" trains her guns primarily on Travolta, who, she says, "overplays his trigger-happy, racist, sexist character so much that he qualifies as one of the most annoying screen presences ever."
Liam Lacey in the Toronto Globe and Mail describes that presence: "In a black leather jacket, with a shaved bald head and a goatee and a perpetual scarf to hide his jowls, he looks like a well-fed pimp or a gay bear."
On the other hand, Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, while calling the movie "stoopid fun," writes that it doesn't do much for Paris or love, or your brain cells, but it flies like a crazed eagle on uppers."
Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes that director Pierre Morel delivers "all screech and no suspense, takedown without buildup, pure slam, bam, merci madame."
-IMDB News