Director: Pierre Morel
Screenplay: Adi Hasak
Story: Luc Besson
Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak
Rated: R
I’m a firm believer in knowing as little about a movie as possible before seeing it. Sure, I like to have a general idea of what I’m getting into, but I really prefer not to know anything beyond maybe the basic essentials, such as the cast, pertinent crew, and genre. I like to see everything else unfold on the screen without my having been spoiled or biased prior to the viewing. For that reason, I always try to avoid trailers, previews, and advance features for movies I already know I’m interested in seeing.
I knew nothing at all about From Paris With Love and didn’t have much interest in checking it out, so I wasn’t very bothered by seeing its previews pop up on TV and its trailers in front of other movies I went to see over the past month or so. Imagine my surprise, then, when the movie itself turned out to be much more than the goofy stepchild of Rush Hour it appeared to be in the previews.
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