When I first heard about this movie, I didn't really think about watching it because I thought the romantic aspect would be exaggerated with pointless love scenes that deviate from the tone of the movie. However, after watching this movie, I can tell that it has a little bit of everything, so no one could be left dissatisfied. What I liked about this movie is, apart from the slow, but intense build up to the ending scenes, that there was a bitter taste throughout the entire movie. It is almost as if you can sympathize with the characters and see the difficulties they have to overcome. At some moments the movie is really poignant and the feeling of hopelessness prevails. The movie also shows Russell Crowe's incredible acting range, where he surprises with yet another delivery which was unexpected from the actor. The other actors also played their roles convincingly, which had an important role in building the atmosphere. I haven't watched the French version, but I would highly recommend this one, as it should be at least a little bit likeable for just about anyone.DISCLAIMER : Everything stated in this review is entirely matter of personal opinion and doesn't have to coincide with the opinions of other reviewers

English review Suspense thriller with emotional play: The next three days 2010You need to watch this excellent movie with stellar performances of Russel Crowe and Elizabeth Banks to see how to make a suspense thriller with a murder accused a working lady falsely sentenced and her husband a College professor evolving a detailed plan for her prison break. The movie with excellent jump editing , flashbacks with a non linear storytelling is both gripping and an emotional roller coaster showing the different hues of emotions the family of three goes through ... Superb performances, good production values and not too many action scenes and nothing overtly sexual make it worth watching with family/ friends. IMDB rates it 7.4/10. I would rate it 9/10. Well done!!

Not bad. Russel Crowe's wife, Elizabeth Banks, is sentenced to life for murder. Crowe concocts an incredibly complex plan to break her out of the slams and flee with her and their little son to Venezuela.Crowe is described as a schoolteacher, evidently of literature because he's teaching a class on Cervantes. So here he is, a naive pedagogue, and he escapes with his wife. How, you, the discerning viewer ask? Well, he reads a book about prisons and has a five-minute consult with the guy who wrote the book on prison escapes, Liam Neeson. Neeson has what amounts to a bit part. Only slightly more important are other recognizable names and faces, especially Brian Dennehy and Olivia Wilde, with her hard angelic beauty.The entire movie is a fantasy, of course. Crowe's schoolteacher buys a pistol. ("Show me where the bullets go.") Then he invades a meth factory, steals their cache, kills the main operator, and tries to blow the place up.The final two thirds of the movie are a frenzied chase. Crowe, Banks, and their kid are screeching around the streets of Pittsburgh, trying to elude the police, who are zipping around in their white squad cars and exercising a fulgurating intuition about who's who, what's what, and where -- labyrinthine enough to lose me from time to time.If you strip the story down to its bare bones -- rid it of modern devices, crashing automobiles, and exploding fireballs -- what you get is an old-fashioned film noir plot, and an exciting one. A brooding question hangs over the mystery -- did Banks actually commit the murder? After all, she says she did.The moral of the story: It appears to rain a lot in Pittsburgh.

Russel crowe is one of the most recognisable names in Hollywood so I'm interested in anything he is in and I thought this was an alright film. The premise sees a school teacher try and break his wife out of prison and reunite his family. Now this movie only works because of the fantastic performance from russel crowe. He is a truly damaged character who just wants to have his family and his old life back and he will do anything to get it. You root for him but at the same time realise that maybe he is going to far. Elizabeth banks was good as his wife and there was allot of intrigue about the character and their chemistry worked for me. The kid was also pretty good in this movie. There are quite a few characters in this movie that are pointless and unnecessary such as the cops, crowes parents and Olivia Wilde's character that dragged down the film. I like the premise of the story, it is really interesting and I also really like the character development that crowe has. But like I said before there are just too many pointless filler plot threads in this movie and also I think the ending could have been done in a better way. The script wasn't that interesting at all with the dialogue being the main weakness of the film and also some things that characters do comes across as illogical. The style was really cool, I loved the suspense in the film and the action scenes that happened were really cool too. Overall this is a decent movie but I don't really care to see it again.