Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: Cop-buddy picture pure processed fromage
Yet another Morel collaboration with writer-producer Luc Besson, this crackling espionage movie plays like an Americanized variation of the 1984 French cop comedy My New Partner (Les ripoux), in which a seasoned, thoroughly corrupt cop introduces his straitlaced partner to the wicked ways of the world.
Just replace intimate comedy with huge action set pieces … avec bazookas, s’il vous plaît.
Here, the straight man is low-level intelligence operative James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an ambitious functionary keeping his head down in the office of the United States Ambassador in France.
Reece must say au revoir to secrecy and discretion when he is suddenly partnered with a loose-cannon operative named Charlie Wax (John Travolta), ostensibly sent to de-activate a Chinese drug ring operating in Paris. Charlie sasses French customs agents, he smuggles in his own gun into the country, and he’s not above snorting a little evidentiary cocaine or employing the services of prostitutes in the course of his work.
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