Theater Whore: 3 Days To Kill

3 Days To Kill 5/10

There seems to be this thing where movies that I've heard of come out and have been out and I have no damned idea. 3 Days To Kill sounded like a cool movie so I checked it out. It was directed by McG which made me nervous since he does not have close to a good track record when it comes to films. This movie wasn't terrible but it had the potential to be such an awesome movie. It starts to rev up and literally has to stop in its tracks.

It stars Kevin Costner as Ethan Renner who is an agent for the CIA that is in Paris trying to capture this guy known as The Albino to get to The Wolf. He finds out that he is dying from cancer that has spread to his lungs and only has a few months to live. He tries to get back with his wife and his annoying ass daughter while trying to trick them into believing that he is done with his assassinating ways. He heads back to his home and finds an African family living there squatting. He can't get rid of them so he threatens the father at gunpoint and tells him to not question anything he does...like bring home guys he is getting information from that are tied up and beaten.

This chick Vivi played by Amber Heard hires him and tells him that she has a cancer cure (treatment?) that she will give him if he kills a bunch of guys including The Wolf. He starts contract killing but then finds out that if he gets too excited that he will start to hallucinate and pass out. Its like the opposite of Crank. He has a bit of vodka to help with it. He works on the relationship he has with his wife and daughter while trying to kill people at the same time.

This movie had the potential to be so damned cool. The premise of a guy dying of cancer and doing these killings to get the cure, I like. But the family aspect was not interesting at all. The wife was close to a non-issue. 

The daughter was so over the top annoying that whenever he spent time with her it made me wish he would just go “You know what? Fuck it” and just die while working. The action was good but the film would grind to a stop whenever he was around his family and those parts of the movie were just not good.

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