The Next Three Days (2010)

just watch it!

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Not bad. Russel Crowe's wife, Elizabeth Banks, is sentenced to life for murder. Crowe concocts an incredibly complex plan to break her out of the slams and flee with her and their little son to Venezuela.Crowe is described as a schoolteacher, evidently of literature because he's teaching a class on Cervantes. So here he is, a naive pedagogue, and he escapes with his wife. How, you, the discerning viewer ask? Well, he reads a book about prisons and has a five-minute consult with the guy who wrote the book on prison escapes, Liam Neeson. Neeson has what amounts to a bit part. Only slightly more important are other recognizable names and faces, especially Brian Dennehy and Olivia Wilde, with her hard angelic beauty.The entire movie is a fantasy, of course. Crowe's schoolteacher buys a pistol. ("Show me where the bullets go.") Then he invades a meth factory, steals their cache, kills the main operator, and tries to blow the place up.The final two thirds of the movie are a frenzied chase. Crowe, Banks, and their kid are screeching around the streets of Pittsburgh, trying to elude the police, who are zipping around in their white squad cars and exercising a fulgurating intuition about who's who, what's what, and where -- labyrinthine enough to lose me from time to time.If you strip the story down to its bare bones -- rid it of modern devices, crashing automobiles, and exploding fireballs -- what you get is an old-fashioned film noir plot, and an exciting one. A brooding question hangs over the mystery -- did Banks actually commit the murder? After all, she says she did.The moral of the story: It appears to rain a lot in Pittsburgh.

The premise is great, the build up and setup are good too, you really find yourself drawn into the story and cheering for them to get away. But unfortunately as it nears the climax it gets increasingly stupid and poorly written. Their pursuers continue to hit 1-in-100,000 shots picking up their trail to keep the suspense up and eventually it just feels really lame and forced. Had they simply not been so lazy with their writing it would have been a really good movie. To me it reeks of a good screenplay that got hacked by a bunch of Hollywood execs looking to up the action level by 15% when in reality it would have been much better if they just left it alone.

Russel crowe is one of the most recognisable names in Hollywood so I'm interested in anything he is in and I thought this was an alright film. The premise sees a school teacher try and break his wife out of prison and reunite his family. Now this movie only works because of the fantastic performance from russel crowe. He is a truly damaged character who just wants to have his family and his old life back and he will do anything to get it. You root for him but at the same time realise that maybe he is going to far. Elizabeth banks was good as his wife and there was allot of intrigue about the character and their chemistry worked for me. The kid was also pretty good in this movie. There are quite a few characters in this movie that are pointless and unnecessary such as the cops, crowes parents and Olivia Wilde's character that dragged down the film. I like the premise of the story, it is really interesting and I also really like the character development that crowe has. But like I said before there are just too many pointless filler plot threads in this movie and also I think the ending could have been done in a better way. The script wasn't that interesting at all with the dialogue being the main weakness of the film and also some things that characters do comes across as illogical. The style was really cool, I loved the suspense in the film and the action scenes that happened were really cool too. Overall this is a decent movie but I don't really care to see it again.

It is well known that Russell Crowe is the reason this movie was watched. I was personally disappointed about the title: 'The Next Three Days' because it denotes something not found in the movie.Similar with 'The Day After Tomorrow', a typical person would think its a horror film about an impending doom scheduled to take place at that time.The wife knew all along that she was innocent but in an act of fury implicates herself in the murder. That's stupid. She has a son out there. Did she care about her?She never made an appeal or told her correct side if the story. I found that to be dumb. We only learn about her innocence at the end but she knew all along.It seems as if she wanted to go to prison and put her family through a great deal of pain - and for what reason??? What did she want to achieve by staying in prison for a crime she didn't even commit???What's up with that? This part of the storyline really did not work for me at all.And she tries suicide later on....oh LAWD.