And his pursuit of the villain’s milquetoast accountant recalls his similar quest in The Untouchables.
The screenplay by Besson and Adi Hasak also makes some humorous nods to Costner’s past film career, such as when, after rescuing Zoey from some sexual predators at a rave, he lifts her up in his arms as he did Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard. This results in some amusing moments, as when Ethan interrupts his interrogation of an Italian bad guy to force him to get on the phone with Zooey and tell her his mother’s recipe for spaghetti sauce, or when he takes lessons in fatherhood from an informant (a very funny Marc Andreoni) whom he mainly keeps locked up in the trunk of his car. Tasked with taking care of Zoey for three days while his wife is out of town, he’s perpetually bewildered by the rebellious young woman who disdains the garish purple bicycle he’s given her as a peace offering.
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At age 59, Costner is still physically up to the task, convincingly beating up guys less than half his age.īut what clearly attracted him to the role was not the pro forma tough-guy stuff but rather the complicated family dynamics that tax Ethan far more than his mission. But he finds it a little hard to concentrate on the job at hand when he’s simultaneously trying to deal with Zoey, who harbors longstanding resentment over his absent fatherhood, and the large brood of squatters who have taken over his ramshackle Paris apartment.ĭirector McG, who trafficked in similar territory with 2012’s This Means War, throws in enough high-octane action sequences, including a harrowing car chase through the streets of Paris, to please genre fans. Constantly smoking a cigarette to indicate her coolness, she’s the sort of ridiculous creation that would no doubt inspire riotous chortling were the film to be screened at Langley.Įthan’s mission is to kill “The Wolf,” who makes it his business to supply dirty weapons to terrorists the world over. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014’s Most Anticipated MoviesĮthan, whose hacking cough in the first moments indicates that he’s got more than a bad cold, is recruited for the mission by Vivi ( Amber Heard), a vampish CIA handler who apparently thinks that the best way to keep a low profile is to wear skintight leather outfits and bright red lipstick. Cue a running gag in which every time Ethan is about to, say, torture a bad guy, he’s interrupted by a phone call from Zoey signaled by her personal ring tone, the Icona Pop song “I Love It (I Don’t Care).” Based on a story by Luc Besson, who also co-scripted, its main plot element is not Ethan’s perfunctory assignment to kill a eurotrash villain but rather his intense desire to reconnect with his long estranged wife, Christine ( Connie Nielsen), and teenage daughter, Zoey ( Hailee Steinfeld).
It’s a good thing the film has him, because this comic spy thriller is such a preposterous mashup of action, humor and sentimentality that it desperately needs his anchoring presence. Playing Ethan, a dying CIA agent enticed to go on one last mission by the promise of an experimental drug that could prolong his life, the veteran actor effortlessly exudes the cool charisma, here tinged with a comic world-weariness, that reminds us why he became a star in the first place.
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Yet another member of the AARP generation of action movie stars returns to show us how it’s done in 3 Days to Kill, marking Kevin Costner‘s first big-screen leading role in many a moon.
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