Directed by McG, Kevin Costner continues his career revival playing a CIA agent who, while recovering from injuries sustained during a failed operation, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and is given 3 to 5 months to live.  Hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife (Connie Nielsen), and daughter (Hailee Steinfeld), he returns to Paris after a five-year absence, only to find a large family squatting in his apartment whose eviction is forbidden by French law.

As if the attempted family reconciliation and strange living arrangements weren’t hard enough, he is coerced into completing the previously failed operation with the promise of a life-saving experimental drug with bizarre side-effects.

As weird as all this sounds, I could totally buy it, except for the fact that the CIA operative controlling him and the drug treatment is the most utterly ridiculous female character I’ve ever seen in an action movie.  Vivi Delay (Amber Heard), is presented as a leather-clad, stiletto-wearing dominatrix, who seems to be enjoying the look way too much for it to just be a cover.  Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, considering that this movie is also populated with such characters as The Wolf, and The Albino, who isn’t actually an albino, but has the skin condition alopecia universalis.  I guess the CIA couldn’t come up with a properly catchy nickname for someone with that condition.

In the end, the mission almost seems beside the point.  The better part of the movie is the father/daughter re-connection, which has some very touching and humorous moments.