From Paris With Love is an action film starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and directed by Pierre Morel. The screenplay was co-written by Luc Besson.
In Paris, agent James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) works in the office of the US Ambassador in Paris, who is preparing to welcome the US Secretary of State to an African peace summit, as cover for the CIA. His agency duties are changing license plates, despite asking for more special operations. He is proposed to by his girlfriend Caroline (Kasia Smutniak), who gives him a ring belonging to her father.
Reese is then promoted, and tasked to escort Charlie Wax (John Travolta), a decorated wetwork operative. After attacking a Chinese restaurant operating as a front for cocaine distribution, Charlie tells Reese that the niece of the Secretary of Defense overdosed on the gang's cocaine, and he has been instructed to dismantle the entire operation. They follow a Pakistani drug mule, using stolen cocaine to access the building where the mule entered, and find an operation crafting suicide vests. They escape after collecting a wealth of intelligence. Despite Reese's efforts, several Paris police officers are killed trying to apprehend them after accidentally setting off a booby trap.
Reese brings Charlie home for dinner, introducing him to a friend of Caroline. After a pleasant evening, Caroline's friend receives a phone call looking for Rose. Upon hearing the name, Wax kills the girl, claiming that it was a code phrase that they had been compromised, and reveals to Reese that his apartment has been bugged by Caroline, including the ring she gave him, which contains a tracking device. Caroline grabs a hidden gun and wounds Reese, and manages to escape Charlie.
The following morning, Wax tracks down the car Caroline used to get away, and destroys it with an AT4 moments before it rams the motorcade with the Secretary of State. Reese realizes that Caroline, who makes her own clothing, is planning to infiltrate the peace summit. Entering the building, he catches up with Caroline. Despite efforts to dissuade her, she reaches to detonate her vest, and Reese kills her.
Afterward, Wax offers to take Reese, who has been implicitly invited into Special Operations, to continue working with him.
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