3 Days to Kill

★★★ ACTION THRILLER ⊲A grizzled but game Kevin Costner plays a veteran, semi-retired CIA agent who must juggle the tasks of eliminating an international arms dealer for Amber Heard’s sultry spook while winning back his estranged wife (Connie Nieslen) and stroppy teenage daughter (Hailee Steinfeld). Director MCG employs the Taken formula of ultra-violence mixed with family sentiment, but doesn’t quite deliver the same guilty-pleasure thrills.

Dir: MCG 2014, 12, 125min