![]() 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. 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. To be sure, 3 DAYS TO KILL is ridiculous in spots and downright preposterous in others, but it keeps up a brisk pace, throws in some exciting flourishes from. This is the main comic device of the movie’ scenario, and it’s a pretty uncomfortable one. Our review: Parents say ( 3 ): Kids say ( 5 ): Once again writer and producer Luc Besson has cranked out another second-tier, unpretentious action entertainment with a minimum of fuss. 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. A dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last. 1972 Original recording owned by Cream / Hi Records Inc USA. Then his character learns that he’s got a virulent form of cancer, and only months to live. With Courtesy of Universal Music Vision / Warner Chappell Music France. 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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