New trailer for From Paris with Love

The second trailer for From Paris with Love is out, giving us the chance to decide once and for all if Travolta's FBI Agent character is a cool-monickered badass or just a slap-headed douchebag.

Well, your first clue should be that his name is Agent Wax, which sounds like a product for giving yourself a Brazilian. Your next clue is in the major slap-headed douchebagging on display in the first trailer.

Now I happen to like Jonathan Rhys Meyers, when he's in more interesting roles, and director Pierre Morel's last outing was Taken, a not entirely original but enjoyably fast-paced flick. For these reasons, I would love this film to be good.

And yet this trailer just seems to be one long showcase for Travolta to ham it up with the kind of life-on-the-edge, 'mad partner without a rulebook' routine that should have ended with Riggs. "Wax's methods aren't exactly regulation". Really? Because it seems to me that, in buddy cop movies, this breed of crazy character antics are so regulation, it's beyond spoofing.

In fact, it's been done so many times that, if you're an upcoming actor heading to LA for your shot at stardom, they'll hand out this kind of role to you at the airport, along with a taco and a relationship with Jennifer Aniston.