Interesting but not gripper
3 days to kill
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, Eriq Ebouaney
Rated: 5/10
Kevin Costner for you after a long break so there couldn’t have been too many faults in this one — and there aren’t too many. As the title suggests, just three days set the pace for this CIA thriller which emanates in Europe and then settles down in picturesque Paris to unfold a somewhat flawed plot of big money makers and dirty bombsters. Costner, as usual, is at his undertoned best as a reluctant CIA operative used for instant kills in tricky places.
His no-ado-business-as-usual killings bring as much mirth to the film as his recurring cough (despite the cough syrup) irritates the hell out of you. His daughter doesn’t like his stubbled and unkempt look and neither do the audience. But his histrionics go a long way in assuaging these minor niggles. Conservatively speaking, the thriller is not too realistic, what with a deadly woman CIA operative sub-hiring Costner to kill as she gives him life-enhancing injections that makes him hopeful of defying the last stage of brain cancer.
Despite him returning to his estranged wife and a daughter who has grown up without him, there are not too many moments on the emotional front even though he works as hard on the killings as he does on his bonding with his daughter. On the whole, the film is mildly interesting though it would have been great had it been a real gripper.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 16 March, 2014
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, Eriq Ebouaney
Rated: 5/10
Kevin Costner for you after a long break so there couldn’t have been too many faults in this one — and there aren’t too many. As the title suggests, just three days set the pace for this CIA thriller which emanates in Europe and then settles down in picturesque Paris to unfold a somewhat flawed plot of big money makers and dirty bombsters. Costner, as usual, is at his undertoned best as a reluctant CIA operative used for instant kills in tricky places.
His no-ado-business-as-usual killings bring as much mirth to the film as his recurring cough (despite the cough syrup) irritates the hell out of you. His daughter doesn’t like his stubbled and unkempt look and neither do the audience. But his histrionics go a long way in assuaging these minor niggles. Conservatively speaking, the thriller is not too realistic, what with a deadly woman CIA operative sub-hiring Costner to kill as she gives him life-enhancing injections that makes him hopeful of defying the last stage of brain cancer.
Despite him returning to his estranged wife and a daughter who has grown up without him, there are not too many moments on the emotional front even though he works as hard on the killings as he does on his bonding with his daughter. On the whole, the film is mildly interesting though it would have been great had it been a real gripper.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 16 March, 2014
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