Well, there’s a thing …
I think we’ve actually managed to generate a Blogger label that mentions Movie Night Adrian.
The one he’s oh-so-politely indicating in the photo … ?
Which is relevant, of course, because the pair of us were both at my place, tonight, with a copy of the Pierre Morel directed, Luc Besson/Adi Hasak co-written film, From Paris With Love.
Well …
The fact Adrian was over was relevant.
Seriously …
… … …
I’m in burble territory, aren’t I … ?
I can just see Kevin D, Trevor, Kaiju and @MamaAlfy giving me meaningful looks …
At any rate …
Tonight saw both Movie Night Adrian and I at something of a loose end, with only a copy of From Paris, With Love as entertainment.
There certainly wasn’t anything on TV, I know that much.
It sees Jonathan Rhys Meyers as James Reese, an aide to the US ambassador to France, doing the occasional … ah … side-job for one of the shadier sections of the Central Intelligence Agency.
And getting a last minute job at an awkward moment; not long after his girlfriend, Caroline*, played by Kasia Smutniak, proposes, he get’s a call from his CIA handler, to fish one of their senior operatives — Charlie Wax, flamboyantly played by John Travolta — out of a French Customs office.
Which is where it starts to get … hairy …
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Now, I’ve got to admit, this is one very over-the-top little action adventure film.
And one that makes no bones about being a touch OTT, or a touch … ahhh … light hearted, when it comes to things like realism or the consequences of its lead characters actions.
Were that much running around and shooting thing’s to happen in real-world Paris, I suspect at least one gendarme — in a very French, very stylish, romantic, deeply philosophical mannerº — would start to ask snotty questions.
Especially about things like jurisdiction, gun licenses and (possibly) evidence.
But, aside from all that … ?
I’ve got no problem in recommending From Paris With Love to you.
Just make sure you leave your disbelief — and any lingering questions about the HATª — in the bucket provided by your local DVD rental store.
* Pronounced ca-ro-LEAN, rather than ca-ro-LINE, as in English.
º And possibly involving a baguette or a packet of Gitanes. Maybe a Gallic shrug, somewhere …
ª No, let’s just leave the hat, right there, shall we … ? Goody Gum Drops … !
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