"FROM PARIS WITH LOVE" **4.5 Stars**

John Travolta has re-invented himself once again. He's taken his bad boy image to a new level in his new movie "From Paris with Love". Just call him Billy Beat Down because he's kicking butt and taking names. Travolta is still the charismatic, cool good looking guy we know and love from all his films but his new bald look gives him a serious edge. Travolta is CIA special agent Charlie Wax who's comes to Paris France to stop a terrorist attack. His new partner is a low-level CIA operative James Reese( Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who's getting a shot at his first senior level assignment. Reese who's also a personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France believes this is his chance to prove he can be a CIA operative full-time until he meets Wax (Travolta). The two are like night and day. Reese is the brains and Wax is the braun but he gives his new inexperienced partner a crash course in the real world of espionage when he takes him on a shooting spree through the Parisian crimeworld. The tables turn when Wax discovers, unbeknownst to his partner, that Reese is actually a target of the criminals their trying to bust so his mission is to keep him alive and stopped the terrorist attack. Travolta is fearless in some action packed fight scenes where he actually peformed all the stunts. The film on the surface might seem predictable but you really don't seen the violent scenes coming.
Your on a roller coaster ride throughout the film wondering what's going to happen next. The film reminds me of Denzel Washington's "Training Day" but there are so many twist and turns and so the violence and mayhem is so amped up...that you're amazed at what you're seeing. "From Paris with Love" is everything you're expecting and more!

Rating: 4.5 Stars