The Next Three Days Review

Quick Summary - Russel Crowe is a middle class man who's wife has been (he believes) wrongfully imprisoned for murder.  When their last appeal fails, he decides to break her out of prison and run for it with her and their 6ish year old son.

Quick Review - Worth Watching

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458175/

I don't remember this movie ever being in theaters, which is surprising given that it has Russel Crowe and Elizabeth Banks as leads along with smaller roles by Liam Neeson and several others I recognized.  The first 15 minutes or so are of the family and how happy they are and then boom she gets arrested for murdering her boss.  It then cuts to a few years later and they're losing their last appeal.  It's made clear that the evidence is very condemning.

Most of the movie is then about how the hell someone who is not a criminal goes about breaking his wife out of jail.  He doesn't have any friends that he's willing to turn to, nor any criminal contacts who he can think of to talk to.  He's not particularly rich so he can't easily just buy his way through everything.  He's incredibly nervous the couple times he tries to do even the most basic set ups for his plan that he might get in trouble for doing.  It ends up being really suspenseful at times as he works to get her out.  I can't say I could quite relate to it, but it made you think could I do this?  How would I react in this situation?

There's also a little of did she or didn't she going on, and questions of would it be worth throwing your life away to be with the woman you love, even if she was a murderer.  Several times he gets asked if its all worth the risk (or probability) that both he and his wife will end up in jail and his son will be SOL without parents.  There are lots of questions about what's best for a family and all that.

Of course at the end of the movie he goes through with it and starts to break her out, and without adding spoilers suffice it to say they make it past the front door.  Just before the very end though the DVD I was watching flaked and so I didn't get to see the very very end, which kinda sucked, but I could pretty much see what was going to happen.  Stupid blockbuster. 

Anyways, all in all I thought it was a good suspenseful thriller and it's definitely worth a watch.