"From Paris With Love" Opens today at Showcase, Quality 16, Brighton Review by Jeff Meyers of the Metro Times Grade: D+

John Travolta is back in wacky-insane-guy mode, acting for the cool movie in his head rather than the crap that’s on the screen. After his outlandish bad-guy performance in last summer’s "The Taking of Pelham 123," Travolta has switched sides but sharpened his incisors for a little more celluloid chewing. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have Brian Helgeland writing his amped-up crazy talk this time; instead, it’s Adi Hasak, who’s fed every stupid action cliché you’ve ever seen into a blender and hit puree. How Travolta and bland co-star Jonathan Rhys Meyers keep a straight face while snarling Hasak’s empty-headed dialogue is beyond me.

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