Fresh
If you like a violent, silly, frenetic style of film you'll find plenty to enjoy here.
Laremy Legel, Film.com
From Paris with Love
Two agents. One city. No merci.
2010 · 1h 32m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Pierre Morel
Overview
James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
37%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ita(TM)s not enough to allow the film to rise above its guilty-until-proven-innocent conception of justice. Reprehensible, then, but what fun!
David Jenkins, Time Out
Rotten
Is the movie worth seeing as a travelogue? Only if you are (a) a masochist, (b) a terrorist, or (c) desperate.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
Crushing dull repetition that makes one noisy, violent scene play exactly like the last one.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
The bazooka was as subtle and witty as the movie.
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
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