Movies This Week: February 5, 2010

From Paris with Love

John Travolta is back in action as an FBI agent Charlie Wax, who’s on a mission to save Paris from terrorists, with a little help from US Embassy employee and low level CIA operative, James Reese (Johnathon Rhys Meyers). Using a heap of unorthodox methods and lots of wise cracks, Charlie wax and his new partner endure shooting sprees, smashing windows and hand to hand combat fights throughout the Parisian underworld, as they battle to stop the terrorist’s plot. Directed by Pierre Morel, who’s past credits included “Taken“, not to mention being involved in action packed hits like “The Transporter 2” and “War“,pretty much guarantees that this movie will be full of elaborate action sequences ending with high body counts.

Dear John

Dear John is a romantic drama based on the book of the same name, by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, and A Walk To Remember. The film spans seven years, and is about a young soldier, John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who while home on temporary leave, falls in love with a college girl, Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried). After their two weeks together, John returns to the army, and Savannah sends letter after letter to him until he finally returns home, only to find out he has to go again. Also starring El-e-Ott from ET, Henry Thomas, and soon to be appearing in Sci-fi series Caprica, Scott Porter.

Frozen

When two snowboarders and a skier get stuck on a ski lift, mid air, their fun filled day on the slopes suddenly turns into a battle for survival. After the ski resort light are turned off, the trio realize that no one is going to help them, at least until the next week, when the resort re-opens. Fighting all manner of cold induced ailments, the trio must risk their lives to survive in the freezing mountains. The trio are played by X-Men and Smallville actor, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers from Dawn of the Dead, and Wrong Turn, and TV actress, Emma Bell from Supernatural, Dollhouse, and The Ghost Whisperer.