The most underdeveloped character... remains Paris. Why set a movie in the City of Lights if you aren’t going to exploit it for everything it’s worth? The movie could’ve been called “From Cleveland with Love” and no one would’ve known the difference.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 22, 2023

The velocity is hypnotic and Pierre Morel is the magician in this sleight of hand. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 19, 2022

There's never a break to build character, a pause to appreciate a joke, or cessations in the franticness to allow for explanations.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Essentially a CIA action thriller with your rather run-of-the-mill buddy flick angle attached to it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

A crime not just against cinema but all of humanity, it's been a long, long time since a movie made me this mad.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

From Paris With Love is dopey, slightly predictable and probably a little excessive. It's also a lot of fun.

| Original Score: B | May 10, 2019

Aside from a generic plot twist and a little clever banter between the two fellas, From Paris With Love fails to deliver the excitement to which the trailer alludes.

| Original Score: C | Sep 11, 2017

This thing is fun. Dumb fun. Overdone fun.

| Aug 25, 2017

The goatee-sporting, shaven-headed Travolta throws himself around with gusto, and the action is bruising and bloody, but to a viewer on this side of La Manche, the film's casually racist attitude to its non-white characters is shocking.

| Aug 2, 2012

...a workable premise that's squandered from the word go...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2011

If you like a violent, silly, frenetic style of film you'll find plenty to enjoy here.

| Original Score: B- | May 6, 2011

Suddenly I'm nostalgic for Battlefield Earth.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It's stupid, it's unoriginal, and it makes very little sense... but that's not all bad.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 3, 2011

Travolta stuffs it up, again.

| Original Score: 2.0 | Dec 25, 2010

Lacking any compelling style, attitude or storytelling.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 21, 2010

A fun, over the top action movie that doesn't care that it's stupid and over the top.

| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2010

Not even the pleasures inherent in watching John Travolta mug it up as a gonzo CIA operative bent on breaking things and killing people... are sufficient recompense for sitting through this by-the-numbers slog from the fevered brain of Luc Besson

| Original Score: 78/100 | Jun 16, 2010

Morel's underrated eye and knack for making kinetic movement rhythmic and easy to follow elevates Besson's run-of-the-mill, mismatched-buddy thriller into a propulsive, enjoyably Eurotrashy entertainment.

| Jun 15, 2010

It's both a classic mismatched buddy action movie transplanted to Paris and a French idea of an American action movie abroad.

| Jun 11, 2010

With a screenwriter formerly of the Israeli Airborne Defense Forces, this is the kind of sour anti-terror travelogue where you're set up to howl on cue when bearded or burka clad Arab insurgents are preemptively shot in the head or blown to smithereens.

| Jun 2, 2010