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The powerful presence of Russell Crowe and the skillful writing and directing of Paul Haggis (Crash) give The Next Three Days an emotional heft to match its taut suspense. Schoolteacher John Brennan (Crowe) is stunned when his wife Laura (Elizabeth Banks, W.) is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. As he watches her emotional decline behind bars, he becomes determined to break her out of prison--and The Next Three Days tracks his meticulous efforts, including wrong turns that threaten to capsize everything. The movie is most compelling in how it follows Brennan's wrenching emotional changes. He's not some cold, focused secret agent--he's torn between his painful devotion to his wife and the frightening possibility of what could go wrong, including the possible cost to their son. The outstanding supporting cast includes Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, and rapper RZA, but the vast majority of the movie rests on Crowe's shoulders and he carries it like an athlete. There's something deeply physical about Crowe's performances--his emotions seem to fill his entire body, even as his expressions are incredibly subtle. It's a gripping performance by a remarkable actor, anchoring a well-conceived and engaging thriller. --Bret Fetzer
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Paul Haggis writes and directs this American remake of the 2008 French crime thriller 'Anything for Her'. Literature professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe) and his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) have a good life, a happy marriage and an adored three-year-old son. But the idyll is shattered when Lara is arrested for a murder she insists she did not commit. For the first three years of her sentence, John struggles to keep his career and family together while pursuing every possible avenue available to him to prove Lara's innocence. When their final appeal is rejected and Lara becomes suicidal, John decides to take the law into his own hands.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A vivid and tense portrayal of a husband willing to destroy his life to break his wife out of jail
11 Jun 2011
By Benminx
Format:Blu-ray
The Next Three Days has good leads in Elizabeth Banks and Russell Crowe. Their marriage seems normal, and has little niggles and bickering as well as affection. nicely they aren't perfect, and they're played with great amiability by Crowe and Banks. Therefore the arrest scene when cops suddenly swarm their house and drag Banks out for a horrific killing is upsetting and extremely dramatic.
It's a well handled scene in a movie full of them.
The script is smart enough to throw us a few red herrings, and the director even manages to instil regular jolts of fear in the audience for Crowe's character, when he keeps messing up his attempts to become a fledgling jailbreaker.
Nicely the cops and guards are far from stupid, and you get the impression that Crowe's amateur criminal is a rabbit carefully trying to make it under a sky full of hawks, with little to no chance.
There is violence, and it's handled with high tension and excitement, and nicely the film always feels like it's under control, accelerating towards its climax. The pace keeps getting better, and there are some unexpectedly good relationship moments as Crowe and his son try to cope with the stigma of being the family of a convicted murderess.
The climax is a very extended series of nerve jangling and adrenaline filled chases, and scenes of daring bravado. Director Paul Haggis keeps us biting our nails and sat up in our seats the whole time - rarely is such a complicated pay off handled so well.
My only gripe is that I hoped the film was going to play with the characters' ambiguity a little more - however, that's a very minor grumble about a movie that was a very exciting and extraordinarily well made piece of entertainment.
It's a well handled scene in a movie full of them.
The script is smart enough to throw us a few red herrings, and the director even manages to instil regular jolts of fear in the audience for Crowe's character, when he keeps messing up his attempts to become a fledgling jailbreaker.
Nicely the cops and guards are far from stupid, and you get the impression that Crowe's amateur criminal is a rabbit carefully trying to make it under a sky full of hawks, with little to no chance.
There is violence, and it's handled with high tension and excitement, and nicely the film always feels like it's under control, accelerating towards its climax. The pace keeps getting better, and there are some unexpectedly good relationship moments as Crowe and his son try to cope with the stigma of being the family of a convicted murderess.
The climax is a very extended series of nerve jangling and adrenaline filled chases, and scenes of daring bravado. Director Paul Haggis keeps us biting our nails and sat up in our seats the whole time - rarely is such a complicated pay off handled so well.
My only gripe is that I hoped the film was going to play with the characters' ambiguity a little more - however, that's a very minor grumble about a movie that was a very exciting and extraordinarily well made piece of entertainment.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
are you a grown up male and sometimes some scenes make you cry?
yes i am guilty on this movie.
a nice woman gets convited on good cirmcumstantial evidence of a murder (elisabeth banks)
she didnt do it , it tears the family apart, she is in for 20 years for murder....no more appeals that is it.
russell crow is a husband (teacher) to a child and a woman in jail for life.. he has no legal options.....
he is desperate and alone....
what does he do , ? what would you do?.......the evidence is very compeling , there is even a possible motive to it
he bets his life , his money, his job, his reputation to seek justice.... and not within the law.
AAA performances from all the actors, compelling story, and quite up to a point realistic.....
watched this movie 3 times and i find it as compelling as the first time.
completely unmissable.
yes i am guilty on this movie.
a nice woman gets convited on good cirmcumstantial evidence of a murder (elisabeth banks)
she didnt do it , it tears the family apart, she is in for 20 years for murder....no more appeals that is it.
russell crow is a husband (teacher) to a child and a woman in jail for life.. he has no legal options.....
he is desperate and alone....
what does he do , ? what would you do?.......the evidence is very compeling , there is even a possible motive to it
he bets his life , his money, his job, his reputation to seek justice.... and not within the law.
AAA performances from all the actors, compelling story, and quite up to a point realistic.....
watched this movie 3 times and i find it as compelling as the first time.
completely unmissable.
31 of 35 people found the following review helpful
By dunnlop
Format:DVD
How many times have we seen remakes over the years that don't even come close to the original. "The Departed" was almost as good as "Infernal Affairs", but most times remakes are a total waste of time and usually only made because people don't like reading subtitles.
This film is a remake of a French thriller called "Anything for Her" (which i enjoyed) and i went to see this in the cinema because there was nothing else on and i like Russell Crowe. I was amazed how much better this was. The French one felt a little rushed to me and lacked a certain element of tension, and didn't have much characterisation. This film is the opposite, it's well paced, and even though i knew the outcome i was still gripped because they added so much more to the third act of the film. The characters are well rounded and likeable and you will actually care if they succeed or not.
If you like a good thriller, or a fan of Russell Crowe then this is a must for anyone.
This film is a remake of a French thriller called "Anything for Her" (which i enjoyed) and i went to see this in the cinema because there was nothing else on and i like Russell Crowe. I was amazed how much better this was. The French one felt a little rushed to me and lacked a certain element of tension, and didn't have much characterisation. This film is the opposite, it's well paced, and even though i knew the outcome i was still gripped because they added so much more to the third act of the film. The characters are well rounded and likeable and you will actually care if they succeed or not.
If you like a good thriller, or a fan of Russell Crowe then this is a must for anyone.
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