Review of The Next Three Days (2010) by Ben P — 04 Nov 2011

I am probably slightly biased being that Russell Crowe is my favorite actor but in my opinion another 5-star movie hands down!

Russell Crowe plays an intelligent college professor at a community college who stay's faithful for three years while his wife suffers in one of the most fortified county jails in The United States - he's racing for her to escape before she's shipped to prison for a murder in which he faithfully believes she didn't commit while everyone else has thrown in the towel and believes she did.

After speaking with a man who has escaped 7 xs in his criminal career he begins the plot to break his wife out and hopefully escape to freedom. This movie has the perfect separation of emotions, anxiety, and action as you wait to find out if he will in fact escape to freedom or not and watch the wives true guilty or innocent unfold as the movie progresses.

Being a student in Criminal Justice this movie also hit home with me. I am under the belief we have a lot of innocent individuals behind bars who don't belong there and it's important that if we truly believe in their innocence we expend all our resources finding out the truth - because after all, that's justice, not convicting anyone and everyone for the popularity of the system and politics like sadly occurs more than it should. 1-innocent individual behind bars is worse than 100-guilty individuals on our streets.

Would highly recommend the movie!