A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when hes offered his first senior-level assignment, he cant believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (JohnTravolta) - a trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon whos been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers hes a target of the same crime ring theyre trying to bust, he realizes theres no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it thr... [more]

A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when hes offered his first senior-level assignment, he cant believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (JohnTravolta) - a trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon whos been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers hes a target of the same crime ring theyre trying to bust, he realizes theres no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive. [less]