3 Days to Kill DVD (4.0 Stars)

This is the least consequential movie Kevin Costner has made of late. It is also the most entertaining. It offers a view at a slight angle to the universe on the trope of a master killer a-dying who longs to connect with a child too long ignored. Being a prodigal dad is a perfect role for Costner whose gift for comedy has always playing an off balanced and likeable every guy. What Costner achieves is making an assassin funny when he is off the clock. 3 Days to Kill is Bourne and Taken played for laughs.

Costner makes it easy for us to put aside any sense of morality and skim over killings as he spends much of his time fumbling at getting to know his daughter and pumping information from a comedic bad guy who he keeps locked in a car trunk. This baddie supplies details pointing Costner to his targets along with cooking tips and advice on how to relate to a teenage daughter. This character is as necessary and delightful as Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon: he is not Pesci's take on a Tasmanian devil but a mild, wry, and in the end not really bad.

The rest is spoilers; and that rest for me means silence.

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