Review of The Next Three Days (2010) by Kingmush — 27 Mar 2011

Http://mushreviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/next-three-days.html.

I first saw the trailer for this movie a few months ago and was interested. Fast forward to when it actually came out and I kept hearing mediocre reviews so I didn't go see it. Fast forward again to today when I was bored and decided to watch it. I was not disappointed.

This may stem though from my obsession with bank robbery and prison break movies. Which brings me to the plot. This movie is about a husband who's wife is arrested for murder and put in a maximum security prison which leaves him and his six year old kid to fend for themselves. After his wife's suicide attempt he is determined to break her out. The rest of the movie is his plans and plots and eventual attempt to get her out.

I thought this movie was well thought out and very smart. No loose end was left untied, all his ideas were real things and he had every aspect of his plan planned out in excruciating detail, almost to the point where I feel that if I had to break out my wife I could.

Overall I thought it was a great prison break movie although that's pretty much all it was. There was bits and pieces of a moral (as seen on the poster) about how you have to loose yourself in order to save what you love. Which is true but kind of obvious and overdone. Still good.