From Paris with Love (2010)

From Paris With Love is rubbish, of course it is, it involves John Travolta making an in joke regarding a royale with cheese. But I watched this the day after Army Of The Dead, with a couple of beers, on my own, and laughed like a drain. Jonathan Ryhs Meyers and John Travolta team up as partners to eventually stop a threat to a political figure (I think so anyway, it really doesn't matter) and mayhem ensues. This is ninety minutes of shooting essentially, but Travolta genuinely appears to have lost the plot as Charlie Wax, and it makes the character more effective for it. I laughed at plenty of things that weren't meant to be funny (and sat stony faced through some that were) but I enjoyed a lot of the action sequences that were solidly shot. You could absolutely accuse From Paris With Love of being boring, but less than twenty four hours after sitting through Army Of The Dead, you could probably have sat through Last Tango In Paris (1972) and found it riveting. A blast, both literally and metaphorically. 5.3/10