The Next Three Days

Drama, Action
3.5 stars
Exciting jailbreak drama, though the previews and the title lead you to expect a different movie. Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks star. If you’re a Liam Neeson fan, you’ll be disappointed that his role is limited to the one scene you see in the previews. Banks is arrested right near the beginning for a murder that the audience doesn’t get to see until near the end (so irritating!), aside from a few bits of flashbacks. Crowe spends most of the movie planning her escape in “the last three years” and “the last three days” (yes, that's how they segment the story) and “the next three days” are the very end of the film. So if you’re going in expecting to see the “next three days” following a prison break with lots of action and chase scenes, this isn’t the film, unless you wait until the last 20 minutes or so of the movie. So thanks to the previews and the terrible film title you already know Banks gets sprung from jail; but the bulk of the movie is spent planning those three days. Decent film, just badly titled and badly marketed.