![]() With negative reviews helping to squash word of mouth, 3 Days To Kill should be quickly winding its way to DVD and cable, where audiences may be less choosy with their entertainment dollars.Ĭostner plays Ethan Renner, a CIA operative whose dangerous, secretive, world-traveling work has meant that he’s been largely absent from the lives of his estranged wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and sullen teen daughter Zooey (Hailee Steinfeld). Costner’s moderate star power will be put to the test in a marketplace that already has RoboCop and will soon also include action fare like Pompeii and Non-Stop. Opening February 21 in the US, 3 Days To Kill seems destined to be only a modest theatrical performer. Whether it’s the stabs at emotional resonance or the action set pieces, 3 Days To Kill simply feels uninspired, its every twist and idea piled on in the hopes that manic exuberance will be confused for coherence. Directed by McG, the film has some of the gleefully loopy preposterousness that’s become a trademark of Luc Besson’s other EuropaCorp productions, but because none of its tones succeeds, 3 Days feels interminable, both too generic in its execution and too pleased with its irreverent attitude. Something that I love so much about what I do is the future is so unpredictable.A potentially intriguing mixture of genres - dark comedy, action-thriller, family drama - produces a toxic stew in 3 Days To Kill, which finds Kevin Costner unconvincingly shedding his rugged, good-guy persona to play an amoral, badass spy. “A few times, I've asked my parents and my agents not to tell me who's involved with a project before I read it, because that can influence a decision very, very easily. “It's who's involved and the script and the story and all of that,“ Steinfeld says when asked what she looks for in a project. She has a host of promising films on the docket, including collaborations with “Once“ director John Carney, Tommy Lee Jones and Brit Marling. Since “True Grit,“ Steinfeld has starred in a “Romeo and Juliet“ adaptation and “Ender's Game,“ among others. For me to have experienced that right away was very overwhelming and very exciting, but it's something I'm so thankful for and I owe a lot to that.“ It took me awhile to realize what everyone was saying was true, and that an opportunity like that really only comes once in a lifetime. For the longest time, I would nod my head and smile. “And I was being told those sort of things for months. Everything along those lines,“ Steinfeld says. At that time, I remember so many people saying, 'You have no idea how lucky you are. But even as the California native moves further and further away from her auspicious start in “True Grit,“ that experience has stayed with her. It is, in short, a part unlike any Steinfeld has played so far. “Then you go back through and you realize there's so much heart and there's these comedic moments you wouldn't necessarily pick up on the first time.“ “You read it as a whole and you think this action-thriller, a lot's happening, a lot's going on, that's sort of what you take away firsthand,“ she says. The movie, centered on the relationship between Costner's CIA agent and his estranged daughter, played by Steinfeld, defies simple characterization, Steinfeld adds. “When I found out that this was a Luc Besson production, that he had written the script, I was so excited to meet him, be working on a film that he wrote, which was really incredible.“ “`Besson's 'The Professional' is one of my all-time favorite movies,“ Steinfeld says. ![]() You might think that journeying from an Oscar-nominated performance to playing second-fiddle in a Kevin Costner flick over the span of a few years is a weird career move.īut it made perfect sense for 17-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, who started her feature film acting career earning all sort of accolades as Mattie Ross in the Coen Brothers' 2010 “True Grit“ adaptation, and can be seen beginning today as Costner's daughter in the Paris-set action-comedy “3 Days to Kill“ from writer-producer Luc Besson. ![]()
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