Just when I started believing that Hollywood is over with the Rambo -like non stoppable heroes who kill thousands of presumably bad people without getting a scratch, Hollywood comes up with” From Paris with Love”.
Although well directed in terms of effects, acting and picture, the movie in my opinion is addressing 80’s to early 90’s audiences. In terms of acting, John Travolta whom as far as I can remember always played the nice guy character was able to convince us that he is a tough mentally disturbed funny bad ass guy just like he did in (The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3) so I have to give it to him here.
But again, in the movie you can clearly see how intelligent we are and how stupid the rest of the world is. According to the movie, in France, you can kill a couple of hundreds of people, demo some cars, burn a few apartments, and shoot as many bullets as your trigger finger can handle and never see a single policeman. The movie also shows that the French are stupid, Asians are cowards, and Pakistanis are ignorant, cowards and stupid.
Is this an indication of how low the average audience’s IQ is? or is Hollywood underestimating it? Is this movie a beginning of another Schwarzenegger era where when he said (I’LL BE BACK) he really meant it? Or is it a mistake going to be realized shortly? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
