Rent 3 Days to Kill (2014)

3.1 of 5 from 290 ratings
1h 57min
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Synopsis:
Secret Service field agent Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) dedicated his life to the CIA but when he's diagnosed with a terminal illness, he retires from his high stakes life in order to reconnect with his estranged family. When the agency offers him a life-saving experimental drug in exchange for one final but extremely dangerous mission, he reluctantly agrees. Before long he has embarked on his deadliest assignment - tracking down a lethal terrorist, and fighting for his life.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Luc Besson, Adi Hasak, Marc Libert, Virginie Silla
Writers:
Adi Hasak, Luc Besson
Studio:
E1 Entertainment
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Thrillers
BBFC:
Release Date:
20/10/2014
Run Time:
117 minutes
Languages:
English DTS 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.40:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Covert Operation
  • Theatrical Trailer
BBFC:
Release Date:
20/10/2014
Run Time:
122 minutes
Languages:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.40:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Covert Operation
  • The Making of 3 Days to Kill
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • McG's Method
  • Extended Edition Feature

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Reviews (3) of 3 Days to Kill

A waste of just under 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back. It's awful. - 3 Days to Kill review by RP

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20/01/2015

Well, that's wasted just under 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

If you sit back, switch off your brain and let it wash over you, you might think this is a half-decent action film. But it's not. It's awful. In fact it's a dreadful, soppy / sloppy over-American film, with a ridiculous plot, awful script, too much gunfire, too many fights / accidents / falls with the 'hero' receiving nary a scratch or bruise, set in a strange version of Paris where no-one speaks French.

Kevin Costner plays an ageing CIA agent who finds out he is dying, travels to Paris to meet his estranged wife and make it up with his daughter he has neglected. He is re-recruited for another mission, has many meetings with daughter + boyfriend, teaches her to ride a bike, and has assorted shoot-outs and car chases during all of which he has lengthy phone conversations with his daughter. It's soppy, it's silly, it's very American - and it also has Mr Wooden Costner, who to his credit, has dropped his annoying, dislikeable nasal drawl for a deeper, gravel voiced effort.

I don't know where scriptwriter Luc Besson dragged this ridiculous storyline from - although the soppy aged agent / daughter / Paris elements remind me of a very, very bad version of 'Taken'.

This is without doubt one of the worst films I've seen in the last year. But unfortunately I have seen even worse, so I'll have to give it an over-generous 2/5 stars.

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Nothing to set it apart from similar films. - 3 Days to Kill review by CP Customer

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22/03/2015

Kevin Costner trying to do things which a man half his age would not find easy. Good car chase, some funny bits, but nothing special.

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Action Spy Film & Utter Tosh - 3 Days to Kill review by GI

Spoiler Alert
18/03/2022

Whilst Kevin Costner gets the odd opportunity here to show his action chops this is a weak, clumsy and inept film that makes little sense and struggles to classify itself. It clearly wants to be an action spy film built around the likes of the Mission Impossible series but then drifts into family comedy drama and the two don't always make for good story here. Costner plays Ethan (not Hunt I may add), a tough CIA field agent who is forced to retire after a mission goes awry and it turns out he has terminal cancer. He decides to go to Paris to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Zooey (Hailee Steinfeld) and wife, Christine (Connie Nielsen). But on the promise of a revolutionary cure he succumbs to the invite of sultry agent Vivi (Amber Heard) to finish off his last job. This threatens his new relationship with his family which cues a mix of killing and domestic strife! The film has it's moments mostly in the gritty fight sequences with a coughing and spluttering Costner seeming to find enough oomph to take down some immensely built bad guys. Heard plays a femme fatale vixen who constantly changes her hair and dresses as a pornstar, hardly very covert. The baddies are all Bondesque villains ie bald, albino, mysterious etc etc and basically none of it makes any sense.

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Critic review

3 Days to Kill review by George Hooper - Cinema Paradiso

In recent years Kevin Costner has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness apart from a couple of excellent supporting roles in films like The Company Men and Man of Steel. The latter film had the unexpected effect of jettisoning him back into the public eye and because of it we can expect a full slate of movies starring the famous actor director and from the look of this latest excursion its going to be good to have him back.

3 Days to Kill follows seasoned killer Ethan (Costner), a CIA agent facing retirement when after a mission he discovers he has terminal cancer. When he returns to Paris to reconnect with his estranged daughter Zooey (Hailee Steinfeld) he is introduced to Vivi (Amber Heard) who offers him an experimental treatment in exchange for a few days of his time and skills. However what starts out as a way of saving himself and rejoining his family could well destroy the tenuous links he has to them in the first place.

While the film is working from a story designed by the perpetually inconsistent Luc Besson it has a great sense of humour as Ethan must contend with dealing with his daughter and take on a group of international terrorists in various stages of male pattern baldness. The way director McG meshes family drama and covert ops is reminiscent of the wonderfully playful Red 2. Costner plays into the films sillier aspects and Heard is more than willing to have a laugh.

Steinfeld however is the glue that keeps this film together playing the straight laced Zooey who brings enough child like enthusiasm without becoming a caricature and also understands the conflicts that make Zooey a convincing and realistic teenager. It’s the twisted family dynamics in 3 Days to Kill that make the movie more than the stereotypical Besson run and gun tale and the relationship between Costner and Steinfeld works in an unexpected but utterly compelling way.

Thats not to say the film isn’t filled with the same kind of nonsensical, clunky dialogue that Besson has been embracing ever since The Fifth Element but it all seems to fade away once the film really gets into its main story as watching these two disparate souls bond, despite their differences and Ethan’s mistakes, is cathartic and ultimately endearing.

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