Title: Luc Besson gives in to his worse instincts
Product review: Luc Besson is the writer and producer of "Paris With Love",but his influence on the director is really apparent.At his best, Besson's films are ravishingly well-shot andedited with humor and kinetic energy.At his worst, his films are boring and repetitive, takingone idea and playing it out tiresomely to build a featurelength film."La Femme Nikita" is one of the better ones. "The FifthElement" is lots of fun and very imaginative.I found "the Big Blue" virtually unwatchable. The Joanof Arc movie was overlong by about an hour and sufferedfrom a bizarre tonality, even with it's dazzling sets andcostumes.Travolta has a few opportunities to be fun to watch, but thefilm is sadistic and gratuitously violent. Travolta's characterkills off about 30 people, both innocent folks and terroristsand doesn't get a scratch.This film owes a lot to John Woo style actioners. The film-makingis competent but the story and script are just dumb.
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