Review – The Next Three Days

Once again Paul Haggis makes a thriller as expensive as it is ludicrous (though I’m guessing this one won’t be the multi-Oscar triumph that Crash was). A community college professor (Russell Crowe) reaches the end of his rope trying to get his wrongfully-accused wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of jail legally, so he concocts an elaborate plot (is there any other kind?) to help her escape. The story dances through a relentless parade of ridiculous twists, starting with the notion that it’s cheaper to restart your life in another country than it is to mount a successful legal defense or buy a political pardon. The cast does what it can with the script, but with writing this terrible they don’t have much to work with. See if desperate