'3 Days to Kill' shoots its way onto home video in a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD combo pack.
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Ultimately, the movie is still very much 'rental material', but there's enough here for an enjoyable night of entertainment. Costner, in particular, is fun to watch here – as his character is written to be both vulnerable and with a dark sense of humor that really seems to fit this film nicely. With all its faults, I still found '3 Days to Kill' to be moderately watchable – again, thanks to good performances by Costner and Steinfeld. It almost certainly would have been better, as there's a good premise here. I often found myself wondering what the movie might have been like had Besson decided to direct it himself. It results in a movie that feels very uneven, and one that you almost wish there was less action in, as opposed to more. So for every sweet moment we get between Costner and Steinfeld, McG feels the need to answer it with an explosion, crash, shooting, or fistfight.
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After all, this is McG – the man behind movies like Charlie's Angels, Terminator: Salvation, and the god-awful This Means War. No, the real interesting bits of '3 Days to Kill' come in the quieter moments. Rest assured, there's still plenty of the latter – but it's stuff we've seen hundreds of times before in much better movies.
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However, '3 Days to Kill' really isn't the title the trailers and TV ads suggested, as it's really much more about Ethan Renner trying to connect again with his daughter (and, to a lesser degree, with his ex-wife) than it is about running, jumping, and shooting at bad guys. The marketing for this movie tried very hard to revive the aging Costner's career by turning him into action star, much in the vein of what's been done with Liam Neeson (who's actually older than Costner) over the past several years. In addition to being estranged from his family, he returns to his apartment to find an African family 'squatting' in his apartment, as well as being recruited by a fellow agency employee named Vivi (Amber Heard), who promises Ethan an experimental medicine for his illness if he agrees to one last job.
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He's hoping to patch things up before he officially 'checks out', but it's not going to be easy. Knowing he's on borrowed time, Renner goes to Paris, where both his ex-wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and daughter Zooey (Hailee Steinfeld) reside. He wakes up in the hospital to discover he's suffering from a terminal brain disease, and only has a few months to live. After an explosive action sequence, Renner lets the bad guy (whom we'll see again later) slip through his fingers when he collapses during pursuit. The movie stars Kevin Costner as Ethan Renner, a CIA agent who spends the opening scenes of the film showing the audience that he's still quite capable in the field. That's a mixed bag of talent, so it's perhaps no surprise that '3 Days to Kill' turns out to be a rather mixed bag of a movie. '3 Days to Kill' arrives with both the thrill of learning the story and screenplay comes from the mind of Luc Besson, and the dubious knowledge that it's also directed by McG.