The Next Three Days
Directed by: Paul Haggis
Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson
Rated: PG-13 for violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements
Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson
Rated: PG-13 for violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements
The Next Three Days has a simple concept; lets have a husband break his innocent wife out of jail. I'm not sure why it becomes such a boring story to tell, or why Paul Haggis goes off on rabbit trails while telling it, or why Russell Crowe seems bored performing in it, but it does all of those things, as well. You add the poor acting of Elizabeth Banks and only giving Liam Neeson five minutes of screen time, and the film starts to take a turn for the worse. It's like a bad episode of 24 starring a boring protagonist who breaks the law for a "just" reason, with no real villains to try to stop him. It doesn't even say very much or come to a really great conclusion. For as exciting as it sounded, The Next Three Days was a pretty uneventful film.
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