If you want my honest opinion, then that is that the Next Three Days is one of the most recent, underrated action-thrillers to come out in a while. Not much about it is electrifying, but I found myself immersed into the film from reel to reel, beginning to end.
It’s directed by Paul Haggis, and stars Russell Crowe as college professor John Brennan, who lives with his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) and their young son, Luke. One morning, policemen burst into their house and take Lara hostage for evidence that she committed a murder. John knows his wife is innocent, but he can’t get any of the right evidence to prove that, so he set’s to work over the next three years to break his wife out of jail. John learns how to handle and use a handgun, gets passports and a new social security number, robs a drug dealer and steals thousands of dollars, receives advice from an escaped convict (Liam Neeson), learns how to break into a car and learns how to make a key to fit into any lock. It all boils down to the next three days.
The Next Three Days is not a great movie; it’s a good one, and an underrated one at that. It’s a shame that it practically bombed at the box-office, because it’s a movie worth seeing. Crowe gives a decent performance in the lead role, though Haggis has yet to find his place into becoming a decent director.
I enjoyed the Next Three Days because it’s an action film that has some sense into it. We follow John throughout the film being transformed from the peaceful, loving college professor, into a determined man who will stop at nothing to save his wife, using any means necessary.
My consensus for the Next Three Days is that although people might not find all of it convincing, I think it’s a good enough action-thriller flick that deserves at least a viewing.
This is a remake of the 2008 French film, Pour Elle (Anything For Her), directed by Fred Cavaye, and which I have yet to watch.
*** ½/5
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