Reese was the personal aide of the France ambassador. he had a beautiful French fiancee named Caroline, who understood his passion in wanting to join the CIA. because of a shortage of agents in France, his dream came true as he was assigned as a partner to a special agent named Wax. despite his dream, he hadn't expect what it was like to be a real agent. he had to get Wax released from the airport Customs where Wax wouldn't stop verbally abuse the French Customs. he later explained to Reese that he was sent to Paris to investigate a group of drug dealers. during the investigation, they traced the money back to the Pakistani terrorists. they learned that the terrorists planned to blow the Embassy apart with explosives hidden beneath their clothes. he also discovered that Caroline was actually a terrorist assigned to monitor him.
the film failed to impress. the plot was unrealistic, the story was all over the place. most of the time we only watch its actions and totally didn't understand what was going on. the flow was so predictable and commercial that even though the chemistry between the 2 men was great, the characters failed to engage us viewers into experiencing their adrenaline and emotions. at some point, the film even felt ridiculous, it was so packed with actions but when everything was summed up, they ended up killing Chinese mafias and gangsters, Arabic, Indians and Pakistanis, even some Africans at the end. so was it the Americans versus the world now? or was everyone else introduced weapons just yesterday to be so unskilled and killed by just 1 man?
some backgrounds on the movie:
- director: Pierre Morel
- released: 2010
- casts: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Amber Rose Revah, Eric Godon
- language: English
- genre: Action/Thriller
Wow, I just finally sat down and watched this movie on the EPIX page of DISH online, I agree the movie was all over the place and to me didn’t even really start to make sense until the second half of the movie. I really think that you might have looked a little deeper into the movie then what needed to be done though. I don’t think the premise of the movie is America verses the world; it was probably more likely they were making the enemies up as they went along. Other then Travolta’s role in the movie, the acting was mediocre at best and the movie all around was a disappointment, even when they disarm a suicide bomber with one bullet. At least I will get to make fun of it to the movie buffs when I get back to work at DISH tomorrow night.
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