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{{Infobox film
| name           = 24 Hours to Live
| image          = 24 Hours to Live poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Brian Smrz]]
| producer       = {{plainlist|
* Mark Gao
* [[Basil Iwanyk]]
* Gregory Ouanhon
}}
| writer         = {{plainlist|
* [[Zach Dean]]
* Jim McClain
* Ron Mita
}}
| starring       =  {{plainlist|[[Ethan Hawke]]
* [[Xu Qing]]
* [[Paul Anderson (actor)|Paul Anderson]]
* [[Liam Cunningham]]
* [[Rutger Hauer]]
}}
| music          = [[Tyler Bates]]
| cinematography = Ben Nott
| editing        = Elliot Greenberg
| studio         = {{plainlist|
* [[Thunder Road Pictures]]
* [[Fundamental Films]]
}}
| distributor    = [[Saban Capital Group|Saban Films]]
| released       = {{Film date|2017|10|26|[[Austin Film Festival]]|2017|12|1|United States}}
| runtime        = 93 minutes
| country        = {{plainlist|
* South Africa
* United States
* China
}}
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = $5.8 million<ref name="TN">{{cite web |url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/24-Hours-to-Live#tab=summary |title=''24 Hours to Live'' |publisher=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]. Nash Information Services, LLC |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2017W48&id=_f24HOURSTOLIVE01 |title=''24 Hours to Live'' |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |publisher=[[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref>}}

'''''24 Hours to Live''''' is a 2017 [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action thriller film]] directed by [[Brian Smrz]] and starring [[Ethan Hawke]], [[Xu Qing]], [[Paul Anderson (actor)|Paul Anderson]], [[Liam Cunningham]], and [[Rutger Hauer]]. It follows a career assassin who goes on a rampage to exact revenge and find redemption after he is mortally wounded and brought back to life for 24 hours using a newly developed technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/berlin-ethan-hawke-24-hours-to-live-2-1201707357/|title=Common, Xu Qing Join Ethan Hawke's '24 Hours to Live'|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Dave|last=McNary|publisher=[[Penske Business Media]]|date=May 20, 2016 |accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref> The film premiered at the [[Austin Film Festival]] on October 26, 2017,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2017austinfilmfestivalandconfere.sched.com/event/CRLU|title=2017 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule|work=24 Annual [[Austin Film Festival]]|publisher=Sched|accessdate=October 23, 2017}}</ref> and was released on VOD and in select theaters on December 1, 2017.

==Plot==
In South Africa, a convoy of [[Interpol]] agents led by Lin ([[Xu Qing]]) transports a prisoner, Keith.  At a checkpoint, they are ambushed.  Most of the agents are killed, but Lin escapes with Keith.

Travis Conrad ([[Ethan Hawke]]), a hitman, fishes with his father in law, Frank ([[Rutger Hauer]]).  They scatter ashes in the ocean, noting the one year anniversary of the deaths they commemorate.  After Frank falls asleep, Travis goes to a bar to get cocaine.  He assaults two thugs following him who tell him Jim wants to see him.  Jim offers Travis $1 million per day to clean up the botched assassination attempt on Keith and Lin.  Though he initially refuses, claiming he's retired, the money convinces him.  He travels to Hong Kong and meets Lin's son, from whom he steals his cell phone and determines Lin's location.  He meets her at the airport and seduces her.  The next morning, he gets Keith's location from her phone but chooses not to kill her; she realizes he is an agent and kills him.

Travis' agency, Red Mountain, brings him back to life using an experimental procedure.  Once he tells them Keith's location, Jim, his friend and former fellow Marine, informs him that they just revived him to get the location, and the doctor plans to kill him upon her return.  Travis obtains a scalpel and cuts his restraints; when the doctor returns he kills a guard and learns from her that with a timer on his wrist, he has 24 hours to live.  He escapes with her as a hostage and pursues Lin, telling her not to make him regret not killing her.

Keith testifies against Red Mountain, revealing they experimented on over 70 civilians to develop the resurrection procedure and forced him to dispose of the bodies.  Just after he testifies, Jim snipes several guards from a clocktower and Red Mountain assaults the building.  Lin and Keith escape when Travis arrives to help, knowing Red Mountain betrayed him.  During the chase, Keith is killed, but he managed to get the camera's memory card before they left.  Travis entrusts the card to Lin, but Jim calls to inform them that they have taken her son in exchange for the card.  Travis decides to help her retrieve him and collects guns and explosives from a safe house.

They travel to the village where the civilians Red Mountain experimented on lived and enlist their help in avenging them.  Travis knows prisoner transport protocol; they corner and ambush the convoy and get the boy back.  Travis tells Lin to get the testimony to the authorities and decides to spend his last half hour alive delaying Red Mountain from pursuing her.  He forces a surviving Red Mountain agent to drive him to base claiming he is the prisoner; when he arrives he kills several guards and drives the car into the building.  He detonates the car and assaults the office where Jim and the Red Mountain leader, Wetzler, are holed up.  After killing all the agents in the room, Wetzler tries to goad Travis into killing Jim, who knew that Wetzler ordered his wife and son killed in an attempt to keep him from quitting the company.  Though angered, Travis feels remorse for all the killing he's done and lets Jim live.  Jim then approaches Wetzler to kill him as police arrive.  Though they warn him not to shoot, he shoots Wetzler and is killed by the police.

Travis dies and has a vision of his family on a beach.  He beckons for his son, but he runs away.  Travis begins to hear the doctor's voice and awakes in the lab where he was first resurrected.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Ethan Hawke]] as Travis Conrad
* [[Xu Qing]] as Lin Bisset
* [[Paul Anderson (actor)|Paul Anderson]] as Jim Morrow
* [[Rutger Hauer]] as Frank
* [[Tyrone Keogh]] as Keith Zara
* [[Nathalie Boltt]] as Dr. Helen
* [[Liam Cunningham]] as Wetzler
* Jeremy Yong as Christopher Bisset
* Susan Young as Vicky Liu
* [[Hakeem Kae-Kazim]] as Amahie
}}

==Release==
Saban Films released the film on VOD and in select theaters on December 1, 2017.<ref name=release>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstshowing.net/2017/ethan-hawke-in-first-trailer-for-action-packed-film-24-hours-to-live/|title=Ethan Hawke in First Trailer for Action-Packed Film '24 Hours to Live'|work=First Showing|date=October 17, 2017 |accessdate=July 27, 2017|last=Billington|first=Alex}}</ref> ''24 Hours to Live'' has earned $5.8 million in worldwide theatrical box office, and sales of its DVD/Blu-ray releases have earned $1.7 million.<ref name="TN" />

==Reception==
On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 52% based on 21 reviews, and an average rating of 4.92/10.<ref>{{cite web |title=''24 Hours to Live'' (2017) .|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/24_hours_to_live_2017 |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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