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From Paris With Love
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Review:
The title dares to evoke From Russia With Love, one of
the best Bond movies ever. From Paris With Love isn't
among the best of anything, but it definitely corners the market on
the worst. Staring John Travolta with shaved head and badass
attitude left over from The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, this
clanking bore of a movie teams Travolta's gun-crazy CIA agent with
Jonathan Rhys Meyers' tight-assed desk jockey who wants in on the
special ops action.
Peter Travers reviews From Paris with Love in his weekly
video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."
Director Pierre Morel tries to duplicate the B-movie tension he
instilled in last year's Taken with Liam Neeson going
medieval on the nether regions of bad guys hellbent on selling his
daughter into white slavery....
Rating:
1 Star
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Dear John
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Review:
This shameless tearjerker is Hollywood's alternative assault on
Super Bowl weekend. Translation: While guys grunt and stuff their
faces in front of large-screen TVs, women will line up to luxuriate
in a bubblebath made from essence of Nicholas Sparks. You know who
Sparks is, the guy who writes bestselling weepies that become
appalling movies, such as The Notebook, Message in a
Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe. The newest Sparks is
Dear John, about soldier John (Channing Tatum), on leave
from Special Forces to visit his hermit, coin-collecting dad
(Richard Jenkins) in South Carolina.
Peter Travers reviews Dear John in his weekly video
podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."
Of course John meets a girl, she's Savannah and played by the
lovely Amanda Seyfried. To...
Rating:
1 Star
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