Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2014

This bit of Luc Besson Euro-fluff was intended, I think, to be an action-comedy version of Taken, but perhaps Kevin Costner didn’t get the memo about the comedy part. And it has to be said that as over-the-hill ass-kickers go, he’s no Liam Neeson. The pedestrian story line has Kev as a brooding, terminally ill CIA hit man lured back for one last kill, all while he’s trying to win back the affection of his whiny teenage daughter for not being around, etc. Tedious, sloppy, full of aimless subplots and superfluous characters. Not even dumb fun. There are plenty of better ways to kill two hours. Japanese title: Last Mission. (113 min)