3 Days to Kill

[Tonker]

What a weird fucking movie.  I'm still not sure whether this was a comedy, thriller or action flick, and I'm not sure the director (McG) was, either.  Costner is watchable, Amber Heard is hot as dick and there are one or two quite nice action scenes, but then there's quite a lot of Hallmark-style family drama, and a hokey feel-good ending thrown in.  The villains are laughably generic and one-dimensional, and the use of coincidence as a plot device really, REALLY stretches belief - Paris is a fucking big place, y'all.  There is a moderately amusing running gag with a bloke in a car boot, but it doesn't really belong in this film.

All in all, it's like "Taken" meets one of those shitty nineties action comedies, but with Costner playing it straight instead of Schwarzenegger hamming it up.  Very odd.

(Needed more Dane Cook, clearly.)

[Slaky]

Tonk - we saw this and I wish I'd remembered you posted. What a horrible movie. I hated it.

[ChuckD]

Costner is watchable

Is there more or less baseball in this than Waterworld?