From Paris with love

The genre of From Paris with love is an action, crime, thriller. The Storyline of the film is; James Reece is an ambitious aide to the U.S. Ambassador in Paris, doing little jobs for the CIA and hoping to get into black ops. On the night he and his girlfriend, Caroline, become engaged, he's told to pick up Charlie Wax at Orly. Charlie is an unorthodox government employee - large, bald and bearded, foul-mouthed and eccentric. Charlie immediately takes James on a wild ride of murder and mayhem, through ethnic enclaves. As bodies pile up, the purpose remains opaque to James. Caroline, unhappy that James has been out of touch for a day, tells him to bring Charlie for dinner. Charlie can be charming - where will it lead? Does the chess-playing James have what it takes?

I really enjoyed this film and I think there are some key scenes that really do create this really good action film. One of my favourite action sequences is around 30 minutes in to the film, this is when John Travolter really comes to life and shows us what he can really do. The key part of this action film is the sound, and the sound effects that have been included within the scene. Most of these sound effects are Non-diegetic sound, the reason they use this I think is to make the sequence more realistic and exaggerate it. They use Non-diegitic sound most of the way through, and I think most action films do, this is because a lot of them are very over the top, and would be boring if were realistic. 

This video above shows you a beginning of an action scene, and gives you a good understand of the sort of non-diegetic sound which they are using.