Month: February 2014

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3 Days to Kill

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Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) is a spy – estranged from both his wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and daughter Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld) – who gets diagnosed with brain cancer early on in the movie. With months to live, he decides to get his affairs in order and go to Paris, where Christine and Zoey live, to reconnect with his family for whatever time he has left.

But when Christine leaves for a business trip, and he’s tasked with three days of babysitting the daughter he barely knows, he’s pulled back into the game by a CIA handler named Vivi Delay (Amber Heard) who promises him an experimental drug that may potentially save his life in return for killing a mysterious villain named the Wolf (Richard Sammel).

Roger Moore of the McClatchy-Tribune News Service writes, “Daft and sloppy as it is, 3 Days to Kill rarely fails to entertain. From the bike riding lessons on Montmartre to dopey interrogation of the Italian ‘Accountant,’ interrupted for a marinara sauce recipe, it’s all part and parcel of the madness of writer Luc Besson’s, From Paris, With Love, filtered through McG and slapping a new stamp of ‘cool’ on the aging Oscar winner, Costner.”

Rating: PG-13 // Genre: Action, Crime, Drama // Runtime: 1 hr. and 53 min. // Starring: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen // Directed by: McG // Screenplay by: Adi Hasak & Luc Besson // Story by: Luc Besson // Produced by: 3DTK, EuropaCorp, Relativity Media, Wonderland Sound and Vision // Distributed by: Relativity Media

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RoboCop

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Like our last featured film – RoboCop is set in the near future where drones manufactured by OmniCorp have become one of the dominant forms of policing worldwide but are barred by law from operating within the US. Recognizing the potential revenue being lost, OmniCorp owner Raymond Sellars embarks upon an ambitious marketing ploy of sorts – combining man and machine – to create a cybernetic cop. Lucky for him, he the perfect candidate falls into his lap more or less. After a car bomb leaves Detroit police officer Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), critically wounded, Murphy’s wife Clara (Abbie Cornish) consents to having him resurrected as a crime-fighting robot. Albeit, one that finds himself slave to a corporate grade like the 1987 original.

Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune writes, “Intriguingly ambiguous – there’s a lot to enjoy. This movie comes at you with an idea or two, as well as every available gun blazing.” Boxoffice.com predicts that RoboCop will take in $28M this weekend.

Rating: PG-13 // Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi // Runtime: 1 hr. and 48 min. // Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson // Directed by: José Padilha // Screenplay by: Joshua Zetumer // Based on the 1987 Screenplay by: Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner // Produced by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Strike Entertainment // Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment