A personal aide to the US Ambassador in France, James Reese (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 to do it become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he is offered his first senior level assignment, he cant believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).

A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon whos been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white knuckled shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers hes a target for the same crime ring theyre trying to bust, he realizes theres no turning backand that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty eight hours alive.