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The Next Three Days - Review

John (Russell Crowe ) and Lara ( Elizabeth Banks) are an ordinary family. Parents of Luke and both with good jobs, living a comfortable life and happy. Their family balance is upset when suddenly one morning, Lara is accused of murdering her boss. John will do anything to prove that his wife is innocent, but when every legal method will prove futile and the imprisonment of Lara now inevitable, will be forced to use alternative methods.

remake of French film " Pour Elle" ("Anything For Her ") of 2008, "The Next Three Days" is the third film from director Paul Haggis signed , writer appreciated thanks to the success of "Million Dollar Baby "And" Crash "-which also won the Oscar for original screenplay." It 'was thanks to "Crash " which, in 2006, Haggis has made the leap in the dark 'has seen the Biro (or MacBook!) camera. A choice that so far, there seems to be very intelligent.

Using a cast seemingly made excellent Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson ( in a tiny cameo), this latest film is not only full of errors but it is impossible to overlook too heavy to digest.
Starting with a script that does water on all sides, where an ordinary man driven by the force to reunite the family and the belief of the innocence of his wife is a bit sudden '"John Dillinger" and a little' James Bond "and thanks to Youtube and Google quickly turns into a criminal (almost) professional. Far too excessive to be credible, even under stress would not be possible. Helping the film we do not even put the rhythm in the action thriller usually knows how to be a great asset, whereas there is very little sustained and accelerated. It is really hard to digest after the movie scene scene, and the duration of two hours and a quarter weighs a ton when you arrive in mid-film, we realize that there is still more than an hour to bear. To find a bit 'of adrenaline you wait for the last half hour finale in which it finally passed to the action, but in terms of story the film is still compromised.

hard to save something in a mess like that. Just a few shots in the final scene, such as the checkpoint or that the detective shortly before the end credits. But really everything else is a disaster. Sorry to have missed the opportunity to make better use of a cast as brilliant as what we had available. Russell Crowe, who usually manages to come out unscathed from his interpretations, this time is very subdued. Perhaps the best is Elizabeth Banks, in some peaks psychopath manages to be convincing. Sprecatissima instead Olivia Wilde (No. 13 of the Dr. House) in a role very, very marginal.

Haggis's film runs continuously vacuum never find the right direction, and when it really seems to understand where it would go, it's too late to get there. Surely you are not creating a successful career in the role of director, maybe it would be better were it to focus exclusively on the screenplay, a job that in the past has already led to great satisfaction. Who knows!

The film will be released in Italy on April 8, 2011 distributed by Medusa

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