Their relationship is sweet as it humanizes Ethan and provides some of the film's best humor. He wants desperately to connect with his daughter whom he has not seen in 5 years. Ethan is not well physically or emotionally. Besson has been a huge influence on this trend. The idea of a secret agent having real life problems has become somewhat of a common plot device. Like Grant in 1963, Costner may not be in the best physical shape of his life but his charm still is. Let me put it this way, the ageless Cary Grant played a spy in 1963’s Charade at the age of 59. At 59 he is very much still relevant as an action star. Kevin Costner and Hailee Steinfeld in 3 Days to KillĬostner is certainly aging well. He just needs better material in which to demonstrate it. However, it, along with the recent Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, proves that Costner still has plenty of gas left in his tank of charisma. I doubt this one will make anything close to the same amount that earlier film took in internationally. Taken turned out to be a surprise hit for both Neeson and Besson, reviving both their careers to a certain extent. Her surreal, espionage world seems to have no connection at all with Ethan's attempts at family life. It's as if she's appearing in another movie completely. She plays a sexy agent who appears demure and professional in her first scene, but who changes her clothes and hair color in almost every subsequent scene, becoming sexier and stranger each time. The other star of the film is Amber Heard. If only the filmmakers had played Whitney Houston's "I will Always Love You", the moment would have been perfect. To which she replies, fighting back tears as the music swells, "The kind of girl who never had a father to teach her to ride!" Another moment of unintentional humor comes later when Ethan rescues his daughter from a nightclub, sweeping her up in his arms in a scene that will remind you of Costner's The Bodyguard. "What kind of girl doesn't know how to ride a bike?" he asks. The worst of these family moments comes when Ethan and Zoey are discussing her inability to ride a bicycle. The script is cliched and the dialogue groan inducing, despite a game effort by Oscar nominee Haliee Steinfeld as Ethan's daughter Zoey. It's when the movie strays into family drama that it suffers most. However, he's still quite capable of driving fast and getting in fistfights and shootouts. When he chases one of the bad guys at the beginning of the film, he becomes winded and has to rest. He's helped in this by the fact that he seems a little more human than the indestructible Neeson did in Taken. He might be a little out of shape (something that no amount of scarves can hide), but he still makes a believable action star. At 59 years of age, Costner still has charm on his side. The movie succeeds best as a lighthearted action film. Can he finish the job without dying and losing his daughter in the process? In exchange, she offers him an experimental drug that may just cure his cancer. Just as he starts to warm up to his old family, his job catches up with him when CIA officer Vivi (Amber Heard) shows up to enlist his help in killing an old enemy. When he discovers, after collapsing in the middle of a mission, that he has cancer, he decides to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife in Paris. It is only thanks to the central performance by Kevin Costner that it manages to entertain at all.Ĭostner plays Ethan Renner, a CIA assassin. It wants to be an action movie, a comedy, and a poignant drama at times. However, where Taken managed to find a good balance between over-the-top action and family drama, 3 Days to Kill never finds the right tone. To be fair, many of the details vary greatly from that earlier film, but it's easy to see that the idea sprang from the same mind. All it needs is Liam Neeson in the starring role, and it would seem to be a remake of Taken. An aging covert agent must fight and kill in Paris while dealing with his daughter. Amber Heard and Kevin Costner in 3 Days to Kill.Ĭo-written by Luc Besson, the premise to 3 Days to Kill sounds awfully familiar.
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