From Paris with Love (2010)
Directed by Pierre Morel
James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.
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It's entertaining for a while (I really wanted to see more of Dermot Hoggins, who comes across as Hanks riffing on John Travolta's character in From Paris with Love ), but what starts as coming across like an inspired casting decision feels gimmicky by the end.
Besson is a filmmaker whose productivity is matched by the unevenness of his filmography—for every Leon the Professional or The Fifth Element , there’s two or three From Paris With Love s or Transporter sequels.
More recently, he’s alternated between producing and writing dumb and dumber Eurotrash (the hit Taken franchise, non-hits like From Paris with Love and Three Days to Kill) and directing disposable duds (The Family, The Lady, Arthur and the Invisibles).
The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which bears the tagline “Get triggered” and is essentially a dumber, tackier Midnight Run , was destined to be one of those Neanderthalic, faux-merican EuropaCorp action movies, like The Transporter or From Paris With Love —except fate fumbled, and the film ended up as a coasting-on-star-power Hollywood programmer directed by The Expendables 3 ’s Patrick Hughes.