The film stars Kevin Costner – fresh off playing a more complex Jonathan ‘Pa’ Kent in this year’s Superman movie reboot Man of Steel – as Ethan Runner, an international spy who must perform two dangerous (well, in a manner of speaking) assignments: carry out his final mission – tracking down the world’s most wanted terrorist – and look after his estranged teen daughter ( Hailee Steinfeld), while his ex-wife (Connie Nielsen) is out of town.Īs the 3 Days to Kill trailer establishes, the script from Besson and Adi Hasak ( From Paris with Love) gives Runner additional motivation: he may only have a few days left to live, unless he successfully pulls off that coveted ‘one last job’ for the government. Maybe it’s appropriate then that McG and Besson’s upcoming collaboration, 3 Days to Kill, looks and feels like a mashup of elements from their most recent projects.
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Just maybe, Pakistani officials wanted my fellow festivalgoers to join the clamor for their country’s “king of fruits.” Just maybe, they succeeded.ĭirector McG’s most recent theatrical release was This Means War – a romantic comedy mashed together with a spy action vehicle – whereas Luc Besson’s best-known work of late has been the Taken movies a series of father/daughter dramas explored by way of a Euro-thriller template (with political overtones), which Besson co-wrote and produced. Just maybe, the mangoes’ juicy bliss could accomplish what diplomacy has not yet done. All it lacks, says Trade Minister Azmat Mahmud, is USDA approval.I started to grasp the ulterior motive of the trays of luscious fruit arrayed before this Washington crowd. But there’s a Department of Agriculture requirement that all Pakistani mangoes enter the United States at the port of Houston, where the fruit is irradiated to USDA specifications.Pakistan has responded by building an irradiation facility in Karachi. Compare that with the mangoes coming from Mexico last year, worth $400 million. Ambassador Masood Khan wants Americans to have greater access to what he calls “the king of fruits” – not just any mangoes, but the royal varieties of Pakistan’s Sindh and Punjab provinces.Currently Pakistan exports less than $1 million in fruity gold to the United States annually.
And if either diplomat was bothered by it, neither let on.That may be because the mango festival had a deeper objective. And there would be handshakes. So I decided to let the stars of the festival speak – or maybe stick – for themselves. I was about to have a pull-aside (diplomatic-speak for a brief meeting on the margins of another event) with two Pakistan officials. Come to the mango festival at the Pakistan Embassy, I had been assured, and taste mangoes as you’ve never tasted them before.Much like other festivalgoers crowded around the trays of ambrosia-like fruit, I was alternating between juicy bites and exclamations of utter deliciousness. The problem was those sticky hands. The sweet juices running down my hands from the orangy-yellow Pakistani mangoes were just what the invitation had promised.
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