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“3 Days to Kill” Extraneous Subplots
Feb 26th
“Extraneous Subplots”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
3 DAYS TO KILL stars Kevin Costner as Ethan, a CIA agent on a mission in Paris, where he happens to live when he isn’t working.
The mission is to capture a terrorist known as The Wolf, who is in possession of a dirty bomb and whom the CIA has been after for 10 years.
Ethan has a nagging cough from what he says is a cold that is killing him, and he was thinking of calling in sick even though he hasn’t had a sick day in 32 years of working for the CIA.
Ethan has an estranged wife, Christine, and a teenage daughter, Zoey, who live in Paris, but whom he hasn’t seen in five years, and when Ethan tries to call Zoey and wish her a happy birthday, the mission to capture The Wolf is compromised, and all hell breaks loose.
Ethan ends up chasing The Wolf’s henchman, known as the Albino, on foot, but Ethan collapses onto the ground just as he is about to catch him, and Ethan says, “I’m not running after you anymore.”
The Albino thus escapes, but this scene is designed to set up a similar scene which is the climax of the movie.
Ethan then finds out that his cough is more serious than a cold, and he is told that he has no more than three or five months to live and also told that the CIA thanks him for his service.
As if that isn’t bad enough, when Ethan goes to his apartment in Paris, he finds a family living there as squatters, and the law won’t let him kick them out.
Ethan wants to see Zoey before he dies, arranges to meet Christine and Zoey, and when Christine has to go to London for three days, Ethan agrees to watch Zoey while Christine is gone, thus setting up the double meaning of the title, because The Wolf comes back into the story.
Because Ethan might have spotted The Wolf in the compromised mission, he is recruited to find and kill The Wolf in return for an experimental drug that might save his life.
Zoey doesn’t even know what Ethan does for a living, and she has problems of her own that take up Ethan’s time and attention.
3 DAYS TO KILL has too many extraneous subplots.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
3 Days to Kill – Movie Trailer
Feb 25th
In this heart pounding action-thriller, Kevin Costner is a dangerous international spy, who is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he’s previously kept at arm’s length to keep out of danger. But first, he must complete one last mission- even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world’s most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.
“Labor Day” Soft Spot in Your Heart
Feb 19th
“Soft Spot in Your Heart”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
LABOR DAY is based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, who was involved with reclusive author J. D. Salinger, and adapted and directed by Jason Reitman, whose previous movies have been comedies.
This movie is not a comedy.
The time is 1987 in a small town in New England, and we meet Adele, a divorced mother played by Kate Winslet, and her son Henry, who is 13 years old.
Henry narrates the story, but his voice is that of Tobey Maguire, who plays Henry as an adult at the end of the movie.
Henry makes the curious comment that his father believes that Adele is getting worse, and Henry says that he could feel his mother’s loneliness before he had a name for it.
Adele and Henry leave their house only once a month to go shopping, and we see them go to a store, where a man, Frank, played by Josh Brolin, approaches Henry and asks for his help.
Frank has blood on his stomach, his leg is hurting, and he asks for a ride. When they get into the car and Adele asks Frank where to, he answers, “Your house, just for a few moments to rest my leg.”
Frank says that he hurt his leg jumping out of a window, and he asks to stay with them until nightfall, when he will leave.
Then they learn that Frank is an escaped prisoner, where he was serving 18 years for murder, but he says that it didn’t happen the way it is being reported.
Frank ties Adele to a chair so that after he is gone, she can’t be accused of helping him, and then he prepares dinner and feeds her.
The next day is Friday, but because it is the Labor Day weekend, Frank is disappointed to learn that there will be no trains coming by, on which he planned to catch a ride.
So, Frank fixes their car, washes and waxes the floors in the house, and even teaches Henry how to throw a baseball.
As the weekend goes on, the relationship among the three gets more complicated, and we learn more about Adele’s condition through flashbacks, which make her more sympathetic.
Frank continues to show a more softer side, too.
LABOR DAY can easily find a soft spot in your heart, as well.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”