3 Days to Kill

Director: McG

Overview

A terminally ill Secret Service agent is coaxed out of retirement for one last job in exchange for an experimental drug that could save his life, and give him more time with his estranged family. For decades Ethan Runner (Kevin Costner) has kept his dangerous career a carefully guarded secret -- not even his wife and daughter know what he really does for a living. Shortly after receiving a grim medical diagnosis, Ethan decides to give up his dangerous career for one last shot at being a decent husband and father. Meanwhile, Ethan has been tasked with watching his daughter while his wife goes out of town for a few days. But when the agency offers Ethan a life-saving cure in exchange for capturing a notorious terrorist, he reluctantly accepts. Now, with his daughter's safety in his hands for the first time in a decade and the powerful drug's debilitating side effects taking hold, the hunt begins. Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, and Connie Nielsen co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/20/2014
UPC:	0024543909156
Original Release:	2014
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	20TH CENT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00
Sales rank:	7,616

Special Features

Closed Caption; Covert operation

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Costner	Ethan Runner
Amber Heard	Vivi Delay
Hailee Steinfeld	Zooey Renner
Connie Nielsen	Christine Renner
Richard Sammel	The Wolf
Marc Andr?oni	Mitat Yilmaz
Bruno Ricci	Guido
Jonas Bloquet	Hugh
Joakhim Sigue	Abbate
Alison Valence	Sumia
Big John	Louis
Paolo Calia	JPG Salesman
Eric Naggar	Attorney
Alexis Jacquin	Young Man
Fr?d?ric Malahieude	Tied Up Man
Patty Hannock	School Principal
Marine Guillaud	Mitat's Wife
Aliz?e Delaruelle	Twin Girl #1,Twin Girl #2
Laurent Richard	Sergeant
Xavier Lemaitre	Handsome Banker
Romane Ferreira	Young Zooey
Philippe Reyno	Young Agent Vivi
Axel Keravec	Kid in the Bus
Laure Gouget	Mother of Kid in the Bus
Rupert Wynne James	Hugh's Father
Cl?ment Boegler	Waiter
Shane Woodward	Agent Axel
Peter Chaffey	Agent 1
Milutin Milosevic	Tech
Lamont Thompson	Tech
Mai-Anh L?	Yasmin
David Coburn	Suit in Budapest
James Owen	Hungarian Doctor
Misko Stevanovic	Kiosk Owner
Omid Zader	Serge?
Raymond J. Barry	CIA Employee
Rob Roy Fitzgerald	CIA Employee
Scott Burn	The Butcher
Michael Vander-Meiren	Jacques
Tomas Lemarquis	Actor
Eriq Ebouaney	Actor
Guillaume Roussel	Composer

Technical Credits

Adi Hasak

Luc Besson

Adi Hasak	Screenwriter,Producer
Luc Besson	Screenwriter,Producer
Marc Libert	Producer,Executive Producer
Ryan Kavanaugh	Producer
Virginie Besson-Silla	Producer
Tucker Tooley	Executive Producer
Bob Turk	Special Effects
Stephane Bucher	Sound Editor
Brian Bernstein	Camera Operator
Berto	Camera Operator
Jean-Paul Agostini	Camera Operator
Aleksandar Adzic	Casting
Misko Stevanovic	Production Manager
Didier Dekeyser	Production Manager
Juan Cisneros	Sound Mixer
Mary Jo DeVenney	Sound Mixer
Francois Sempe	Sound Mixer
Vincent Lefebvre	Sound Mixer
Viridiana Ferri?re	Makeup Special Effects
Capucine Courau	Sound Editor
Slavisa Ivanovic	Stunts
Dominique Fouassier	Stunts
Philippe Hubin	Special Effects Supervisor

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- 3 Days to Kill
1. Scene 1 [3:20]
2. Scene 2 [3:33]
3. Scene 3 [3:54]
4. Scene 4 [4:37]
5. Scene 5 [4:50]
6. Scene 6 [4:14]
7. Scene 7 [4:03]
8. Scene 8 [4:49]
9. Scene 9 [3:27]
10. Scene 10 [2:39]
11. Scene 11 [3:41]
12. Scene 12 [5:05]
13. Scene 13 [3:51]
14. Scene 14 [4:27]
15. Scene 15 [8:50]
16. Scene 16 [1:56]
17. Scene 17 [5:09]
18. Scene 18 [6:13]
19. Scene 19 [5:28]
20. Scene 20 [5:22]
21. Scene 21 [6:41]
22. Scene 22 [3:07]
23. Scene 23 [7:09]
24. Scene 24 [2:56]

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Editorial Reviews

3 Days to Kill pairs the subtlety-free direction of McG with a script co-written by international popcorn-cinema superstar Luc Besson, and the result is an action comedy that delivers a couple of satisfying gunfights, lands a few funny moments, and fumbles the dramatic beats. Kevin Costner plays grizzled CIA agent Ethan Renner, who botches his latest assignment -- taking out an international criminal known as "the Albino", who's an associate of an even bigger criminal mastermind called "the Wolf" -- and learns he has brain cancer that has spread to his lungs. After being told that the CIA no longer requires his services and, even worse, that he has at best five months to live, Ethan travels to Paris in order to reconnect with his long-suffering wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and estranged teenage daughter Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld), whom he hasn't seen since she was a little girl. The women in his life are mad that he abandoned them for his job with the CIA, and while Ethan intends to spend his final months winning them over, a sexy agent named Vivi Delay (Amber Heard) appears and offers to give him an experimental drug that will buy him more time if he helps her hunt down the Wolf. As a result, Ethan divides his time between Zoey's boyfriend problems, torturing people for info that could lead to his target, and fighting off the hallucinogenic side effects of the serum -- which may or may not be working. With its focus on the relationship between a cynical assassin and a temperamental teen girl, 3 Days to Kill feels much more like a Luc Besson movie than it does a McG flick. Sure, the Charlie's Angels auteur's cartoonish style is here -- most obviously in the hyperkinetic gunfight that plays out before the opening credits roll -- but the film spends far more time inside Ethan's head than you might expect. Unfortunately, Costner, who is obviously hoping for the kind of late-career breakthrough that Liam Neeson scored when he worked with Besson in Taken, just isn't an engaging enough dramatic actor to sell the heart-tugging scenes. In addition, the gloriously over-the-top action sequences don't mesh well with the earnest passages about a dying man making up for old hurts he's caused. The tonal shifts are beyond McG's capabilities, and Costner doesn't bring enough gravitas to make these moments ring true. What he does still have is some decent comic timing, and 3 Days to Kill is quite funny whenever Zoey calls her dad with a personal problem while he's in the middle of business -- say, electrocuting a limo driver who might have some crucial info. In those scenes, Costner's earnestness adroitly plays against the grisliness of the situation, and the results -- especially a fantastic bit involving his daughter's pressing need for a spaghetti-sauce recipe -- have a winning sitcom vibe that explores the tension a father feels balancing work with his home life. If they had cast a more commanding actor or rewrote the script a few more times to punch up the comedy, 3 Days to Kill could have been a memorable spin on very familiar material. As it is now, McG and company have whipped up nothing more than a time-killing programmer designed to make as much money around the globe as it does in the States.