![]() ![]() This side plot mostly entails Ethan teaching his 16-year-old daughter how to ride a bike, keeping her out of the club scene, taking her to the swing set she used to love as a child, and being a chaperone at her prom, which is where the film’s climax takes place. Ethan, with only months to live, decides to reconnect with his daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) and wife (Connie Nielsen) before he dies. He is forced into retirement by the CIA.ģ. Ethan has brain cancer, which has spread to his lungs, leaving him only 3-5 months left to live. Kevin Costner plays Ethan Renner, a trigger-happy, crusty lifer at the CIA who is in the last days of his career when a mission to kill The Wolf - whose crime is apparently blowing up a building indiscriminately - goes awry and The Wolf escapes.Ģ. Let me briefly outline the storylines smashed together in 3 Days to Kill.ġ. It could have been a decent, generic throwaway thriller that might have been merely forgettable, but not deplorable, had McG the sense to lop off the pointless side plots that preoccupy entirely too much of the film’s running time. ![]() Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit was a boring mess, and Three Days to Kill is even worse. While he was very good in Man of Steel - in fact, he provided the film with what little soul it had - Costner’s follow up films seem less like well-considered projects, and more like quick paycheck roles designed to squeeze out his last bit of relevance. Look, studios! He’s got some blood left in him yet, let’s suck him dry! As in, what the hell is this, "Die Hard" meets "Amelie"? Only, because "True Grit" girl Haille Steinfeld is easily winning as theĭaughter, and Costner is delivering his absolute best Gary Cooper stuff, the scene is actually almost affecting.The Kevin Costner comeback story felt really good for a hot minute after Zack Snyder tapped him for Jonathan Kent in Man of Steel, giving Hollywood permission to resurrect the Oscar-winning star of Waterworld and The Postman in the hopes that he could bring some of that Tin Cup and Bull Durham magic back to life. This is one of those movies that’s ridiculously busy with dumb and not particularly pertinent detail on the one hand, and determined to beat all of its near-decent jokes into the ground on the other (as in what happens after Costner’s daughter sets Icona Pop’s “Iĭon’t Care” as his cell phone ringtone for her), so when it stops dead for a father-daughter bonding scene in front of Sacre Coeur, the effect is a little unsettling at first. This is the main comic device of the movie’ scenario, and it’s a pretty uncomfortable one. The upshot of which, at times, involves Costner’s character torturing various lower-level criminals while, get this, soliciting their advice on parenting. And sure enough, Amber Heard, a mysterious presence in the opening scene, and made up throughout to look as if she just stepped out of a Tex Avery animated short, turns up offering to cure his cancer if he’ll, yes, work for “them” again, this time killing bad guys known as “The Wolf” and “The Albino.” His new assignment happens to coincide with a let’s-get-reacquainted period between father and daughter. “Promise me you’re not working for them anymore.” Sure enough, Costner promises. ![]() “Promise me one thing,” estranged wife Connie Nielsen says. Acting on advice to get his affairs in order, Costner’s character, who doesn’t speak a word of French, goes to his flat in Paris, discovers a family of Africans squatting there, tries to go all middle-period Eastwood on them, doesn’t, and then looks up his estranged wife and estranged teenage daughter. thanks you for your service,” his attending physician tells him. ![]() Then his character learns that he’s got a virulent form of cancer, and only months to live. In the middle of the sound and fury of an opening battle, Costner is stolid and solid. One in which the explosions are almost as loud as the real-life kind that make people deaf, and the villain looks like he stepped out of a "Saturday Night Live" parody of a Prada advertisement. From the get-go you know what kind of tripe "Kill" is: the overdetermined, overblown, overdesigned type-a EuroTrash action movie, if you will. ![]()
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