Upcoming Spy DVDs: From Paris With Love
DVD Active reports that Pierre Morel's latest neo-Eurospy movie,
From Paris With Love, will be out
on DVD
and
Blu-ray
from Lionsgate on June 8. And it boasts plenty of extras tailor-made for spy fans! Besides a commentary with Morel (whose previous neo-Eurospy effort was
Taken) and a making-of featurettes ("The Making-of From Paris With Love"), we also get the intriguing "Spooks, Spies and Special Ops: Life Under Cover" and "Secrets of Spy Craft: Inside the International Spy Museum." Those both sound pretty cool! A look at "Charlie Wax's Gun Locker," the theatrical trailer and a trivia game called "Friend or Foe" (Huh?
From Paris With Love trivia? Really?) round out the special features. Oh, and the Blu-ray release will also include that idiotic but ubiquitous digital copy of the film. Wouldn't it have been awesome if they had used the supercool Eiffel Tower/gun
teaser image for the cover art instead of Travolta's and Rhys-Meyers'
goateed mugs? Sigh. A missed opportunity.
I never got around to posting a review of
From Paris With Love, but I enjoyed it... almost in spite of myself. It's not as good as
Taken or the
Transporter movies (previous neo-Eurospy efforts from producer Luc Besson), but it ended up being pretty fun anyway. From the trailers, I thought I was going to hate Travolta and his Charlie Wax persona, and for the first twenty minutes I did. But then suddenly I went from cringing at his bad one-liners and miles-over-the-top delivery to laughing at them. And in the end, he kind of
made the movie rather than ruining it!
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