one of my absolute favorites!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This film tells the story of a secret agent who is forced to do one last job in exchange for an experimental treatment for an illness.The story sounds like a thriller, but the delivery of the plot is not as thrilling as it could have been. It is punctuated by frequent lighthearted moments, which interrupts the flow of the thrill. Out of all the characters in the film, I like Hailee Steinfeld the best because she seems the most natural.

Am I saving the world today? I don't think so.But I try ;) I notice I feel compelled to write a review on IMDb for only 2 kind of movies : those that are so awful I need to warn other fellow humans about and those that are so amazing that I want to expand my gratitude through here.You've guessed well : "3 Days to Kill" is not one of my favorite movies. I do think the director has done some choices that did hurt the movie. And the screenplay is a Luc Besson's actual screenplay. Very thin story, very simplified reality, actually the word 'reality' does not suit this movie. You can not believe the Luc Besson who writes this is the same that did the amazing "Nikita" or even better "Le Grand Bleu".OK, so, first, the name of the movie. If I was not in love with Costner, I would not have watched this movie, just from the title. I don't like violence, I don't like promoting violence to all the teenagers who don't really know what it is to kill (here comes my trying-to-save-the-world preaching). I see this kind of movie responsible for the banalization of violence, and responsible for the false connection it shows between strength and guns. I find the message of this movie utterly confusing : here's a good guy who lets squatters in his place and yet kills people for a living. You see, killing here becomes just another thing a good guy does in life.That's in general.In the details, there is so much to say. I must say the way the movie began I gasped because I heard : "CIA", and I thought : no! again? but I love Costner too much... Basically it's the lack of reality that just pushed me out of the movie more than once. The baby birth was ridiculous. Or was it the editing. I understand we can't go through the 15 hours of a labor. But to show a woman push her baby out and the next second to see the baby in the family's arms WITHOUT a cord, that's just hilarious!!! Not to mention the squatters ready to leave because they found a place out of Paris, all smiley and all. I ask : where is Mickey and the balloons? I mean, is Luc Besson aware of the actual real life in Paris for people who don't have much money? You think people say with a smile : "Oh we think we'll just move out of Paris..."?Also Paris is so fukking beautiful. I regret they did not take more advantage of the city. Showing us only the Eiffel Tower in like so many plans, even giving us a Kevin Costner alone moment next to the Eiffel Tower, I mean, that was sad, he really seemed alone and I thought : they must have guarded him very well alone so that he's not troubled by all the crazy fans. I even thought the scene where he bikes through Paris maybe has been chosen for it was one of the only ways to shoot him (pun intended) in the city without him being bothered or even in any kind of risk (there are insurances in movie business...)But the bike episode with the daughter. Hello. Too fake. Too long. It was supposed to touch us but it didn't because it looked too much like a commercial. Because we jumped too fast from the girl in her nightdress to the girl in her pants. Because it was different scenes put together. Because why would Costner mimic as if he was strong when people cheer about his girl having learned to bike? Why was it so fake? It was not the actors. The actors actually managed to act quite well, most of them (I found that Hugh was very fake too).No, it's really the direction. Where's the camera and what does she give importance to and for how long? The camera should never give a viewer the feeling : oh, here comes the love scene, right; oh, here comes the sweetness scene, right, et cetera.You don't feel like you're watching a real story. You feel like you're watching very expected scenes that don't glue together and not even to themselves.Pffffff. Makes me want to go back to Paris and see it fortunately without guns and without crashes, although there are probably many gunned police and army officers because these days there are young people who do just like Kevin Costner in this movie. I guess someone told them it's hot.Oh, one thing I did love very much and found was very creative was the presentation of the movie, with the windows and all, and you see many Kevin Costners at once (mmmm). It was so beautiful, from a taxi, with the sunlight. But it did not fit with the title of the movie that appeared right after, title that got filled with a red color just afterwards (so gross).Anyway, I'm a girl and I'm telling you guys, I so don't find guns hot!

"3 Days to Kill", a suspense/thriller movie. This film, begins by explaining the situation. There is a man they call 'The Wolf' that is a former German national that sells atomic material to terrorists all over the world. He, and his number one man they call "The Albino" will be making a transaction very soon. The CIA is aware of the transactions that are waiting to take place and are preparing for the take down of both "The Albino" and "The Wolf". The only problem is they don't actually know what "The Wolf" looks like. They call in an Agent named Vivian Galay or Vivi as she is later known in the movie. She will be the one ultimately in charge of making sure "The Wolf" is taken down. The take down of "The Albino" is left to another secret agent named Ethan Renner, played by Kevin Costner. At the transaction the CIA is compromised and everything goes wrong. Ethan ends up running after "The Albino" but Ethan is terminally ill. At the end of their chase, Ethan shoots "The Albino" in the leg but falls to the ground himself because of his sickness. Both "The Albino" and "The Wolf" escape. Ethan is taken to the hospital and finds out he only has about 3 months to live. Because of this he finally goes home to his wife and daughter that he hasn't seen for 5 years. He hopes to reconnect with his daughter because he is finally realizing that he spent his life being a secret agent and not a father. He gets back in touch with his family and tells his wife that he is done with the CIA. Agent Vivi soon contacts him because Ethan is the only person who has actually seen "The Wolf" and he suddenly becomes invaluable to the CIA. Vivi offers him an experimental drug that might save his life, if he agrees to help her kill "The Wolf". He agrees. Ethan is then sent to do many different missions of capturing and killing to help lead him towards information about "The Wolf. Every time he succeeds in his task he is given a dose of the "life saving drug". After his first dose he discovers that there are crazy side effects as a result of taking this experimental drug, and hardly survives past them. Vivi tells him to take a shot of vodka to take the edge off and keep his heart rate down and he will be fine. Keeping your heart rate down and being a secret agent do not go to well together because of the high intensity and stress levels due to the job. As he continues to hide his work and reconnect with his family, things become messy. Family life begins to tie with work life and his priorities come to light. Being a father is his number one goal but the temptation to keep working for this drug that may keep him alive is too much to pass up. An example is when he was in a violent interrogation, he was called to the principles office because of his daughter. He packed the man he was interrogating in his trunk and headed strait over to the school. Another time was when he doing a similar interrogating job, with a different victim. His daughter called and needed his help knowing how to make spaghetti. Conveniently the man he had abducted was Italian. Ethan had the man talk to his daughter and explain how to make spaghetti sauce as if he was actually in a casual business meeting. Even though he was tied to a chair and had had a gun to the Italians head. Therefore, the inconvenience of balancing a secret life, being a dad, and being dependent on a drug was catching up to him. This continued until they finally got to "The Wolf". I wont spoil the ending because it is a very entertaining movie that everyone should watch. I would rather leave you asking questions.

With characters named 'The Wolf', 'The Albino', 'The Accountant', and 'The Guido', you can't expect too much quality from '3 Days To Kill', which was directed by McG (the guy who brought us the 'Charlie's Angels' movies and who at one point, wanted to cast Beyonce as Lois Lane in an abandoned remake of 'Superman' several years ago). Needless to say, McG, hasn't done anything of interest ever in his career with the exception of giving a little bit of money to television shows like 'Supernatural' and 'Chuck'.So what is '3 Days To Kill'? It's a big fat silly cliché of a movie. But it's mostly fun if you don't pay attention to ridiculous story plot or stereotypes that are on screen. Last year and this year is a big time for actor Kevin Costner. He has played a few supporting roles as of recently, which were excellent, especially in 'Man of Steel' as Pa Kent. Then we saw him in the new 'Jack Ryan' film, which was great as well. Now, he is a leading man once again, and back to his glory days as a likable yet bad ass type of guy. We've missed you Costner, and we're glad to have you back. And if this is a sign of what's to come, it will only get better from here.'3 Days To Kill' is co-written by Luc Besson of 'The Fifth Element' and 'Leon The Professional' fame. His name even appears in the opening credits above a taxi, which is a throwback to one of his earlier projects. But Besson and McG didn't want to make straight out shoot-em-up thriller. No, they wanted to make three movies in one, all of which never make any sense. They mixed a spy thriller with a silly slapstick comedy, and a coming-of-age film into two long hours without really molding a good story into it.Costner plays Ethan Renner, who is essentially a hit-man for a government agency. He even left his wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and daughter Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld) to travel the world and take out bad guys, which he is extremely good at. When a job goes wrong, Ethan finds out he has a few months left to live, due to brain cancer. So he moves back to Paris, where his wife and daughter are now living to patch things up and spend his remaining days with them. They reluctantly accept him back on the condition that he not work for the government anymore. So all is well in the Renner household, right? Wrong.Vivi Delay (Amber Heard) shows up, always in some sort of exotic leather outfit with different hair colors to coax back Ethan in for one more job. Ethan declines, but Vivi offers him an experimental drug to cure him. He accepts the offer even though it has some crippling side-effects, which can be instantly and easily cured by drinking shots of vodka. With Ethan's wife gone for a few days on a business trip, he has a few days to kill with his daughter to catch up on lost time with her. And so the film plays out in segments with 20 minutes here and there of Ethan teaching his teenage daughter how to ride a bicycle, taking her for ice cream, and swinging on a swing set, not to mention the long talks of where he's been for the past twelve years.When we're not watching Costner play a father figure, we catch him killing the bad guys, who seem to all have scars and accents. Amber Heard's character is straight out of a Russian spy thriller movie, but only seems to show up for a few minutes during the film and never really goes anywhere. The same can be said for a family of squatters occupying Ethan's home. None of it really makes sense. However, one of the best scenes in the film is when Ethan ties up The Guido to a toilet and is about to torture him when his daughter calls his cell phone and asks for a recipe for spaghetti sauce, to which Ethan forces a frightened Guido to deliver his mother's Italian recipe over the phone.This is the type of stuff that we're dealing with in '3 Days To Kill'. The bad guys are ripped straight out of an 80s pro-American action film. Richard Sammel plays The Wolf and is as stereotypical as they come. You might recognize Sammel from Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglorious Basterds' as the German nazi soldier who got his brains bashed in by the Bear Jew. The dialogue has cheese poured all over it, but the action sequences are very well executed, despite its PG-13 rating. Costner is excellent in this as is Steinfeld and Nielsen. But Costner just carries the film as you just want to hang out with the guy on a weekly basis. Is this worth seeing in the theater? Probably not, but it's a solid movie to watch when it comes out on Netflix.