Kevin Costner goes a
long way in selling “Three Days to Kill,” a Luc Besson-produced action/“comedy”
about a dying CIA assassin named Ethan who goes home to Paris to see his estranged
family – Connie Nielsen as wife, and Hailee Steinfeld as teen daughter – before
he kicks. As it happens, the CIA has one last job for Ethan: Kill two bad guys known
as The Albino and The Wolf, who are neither an albino nor a wolf. Golden
carrot: Way-too young CIA handler Vivi (Amber
Heard) has a magic cure that can
keep our man alive. Costner acts aces, truly. But “Kill” made my skin crawl.
I’ll say it: Besson shines a creep perv voyeur for teen girls here and with “Taken”
and his so-long-ago “Leon.” He fixates on girls who cannot walk outside without
falling victim to rape, not without “daddy” to save them. Steinfeld’s teen gets the treatment here. Besson’s fantasy? The take on grad-school-age Vivi as some 1980s
Euro-fantasy dominatrix smells of a gross dream of middle-aged men with
script approval. Nielsen’s wife has nothing to do but forgive her
man, repeatedly. Blame director McG? No. This hangs on Besson. Dickless. D+
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