The script is too cute for its own good for most of the running time, but the inter-personal relationship-building was tolerable. Grizzled CIA operative Ethan (Kevin Costner) is saddled with a terminal diagnosis, so he tries to put his affairs in order, including making good with the time he has left with an estranged teenaged daughter (Hailee Steinfield) and her mother (Connie Nielsen). As pretty as Amber Heard is, it was a little too far-fetched to take her character seriously, even as a plot device. Luc Besson seems to be a on a whimsical, familial, nostalgic bent in his screenwriting of late, but adding in the spy elements with the family elements just didn't quite mesh well enough.
I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.
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