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Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

soniaquebec I really didn't like that movie. Overweight and old John Travolta the action star? No way! The casting is so wrong. Why would an Agency send one of their aging weird looking agent to find a terrorist organization? If he's the best that's just insane.Some of the action looks good thanks to great stunt work but that's about it. It's a big waste of JRM talent.

Yipikaye Coming into this movie I didn't expect much. But once I decided to give it a watch...I loved it!!! Only because the film didn't make past $100 million dollars on Box Office, dosen't mean it's going to be bad. I am surprised this film only made $52 million, although that is still good but it should have done better. This film fits perfectly well with other Travolta action flicks: Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Swordwish and even The Punisher. Very good film, in fact I would consider this to be one of my favourite films in his career. The action is incredible, plus you get Travolta's great funny, comedic style acting. Ditto the film! I was blown away, by this movie.

Scott LeBrun This is the kind of action movie where the filmmakers make the pace and the action set pieces so furious that, if their efforts pay off, the viewer won't be stopping to think about how preposterous the whole thing is. And it works, at least to a degree. The movie doesn't offer us anything we haven't seen before. But it's all heavily stylized and reasonably intense.Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays James Reese, the assistant to the American Ambassador to France (Richard Durden). James also moonlights as an errand boy for the C.I.A., doing things like changing license plates, all in the hope that someday he'll get a big time operative job with the Agency. The assignment that could earn him that honour is to work with a goofball loose cannon agent named Charlie Wax (John Travolta). Wax involves the increasingly flustered Reese in a non-stop series of escapades, all in the name of avenging the death of the niece of the Secretary of Defense. At least, that's the b.s. story handed to Reese at the beginning.A number of Paris locations are well utilized in this rather snazzy bit of entertainment. It may not really have a brain, but director Pierre Morel ("Taken") and idea man Luc Besson do their able best to keep the audience engaged, and guffaw at some of the sillier moments (Wax actually makes Reese carry around a vase full of cocaine). The frenetic chase sequence in which Wax leans out of a car window to aim a rocket launcher at his quarry is exciting and silly in about equal measure.Most viewers will probably say that the big "twist" was painfully obvious, right from the start, and truthfully it's not exactly hard to figure out, but the Reese character is understandably in a level of denial about the whole thing.Polish actress Kasia Smutniak is appealing as Reese's girlfriend, but the movie truly belongs to *both* Travolta and Meyers. Meyers's job is to basically do a lot of *reacting* and function as a somewhat realistic centre, while Travolta, sporting a bald head, is afforded the opportunity to chew the scenery in an agreeable fashion.Clearly Morel and company just couldn't resist that "Pulp Fiction" reference.Six out of 10.

SnoopyStyle James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is an aide to the U.S. Ambassador in Paris. He does assignments for the CIA and hopes to get into special ops. After planting a bug in a french minister's office, he's given another task to pick up Charlie Wax (John Travolta) at the airport. He has to run out on a special dinner with his girlfriend Caroline (Kasia Smutniak). Charlie is a manic strange angry loud-mouthed agent. He takes James on a wide ride starting with shooting up a Chinese restaurant.I really don't like John Travolta's overacting cartoon character. It's that simple and I don't really like JRM's character either. This is too ridiculous in a bad way. It made me roll my eyes once too often. This is trying to be that stylish action movie but it really doesn't achieve anything other than a lot of gunplay. And JRM carrying around that vase just looks stupid.