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Created Apr 30, 2011 08:15PM PST • Edited Apr 30, 2011 08:15PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Good 3.0

   What would you do if your wife gets sent to jail on murder charges which she denies? Ok, and what if you were a mild-mannered professor? And although your wife has a hint of a harder edge, and the evidence is overwhelmingly against her – yet you know in your bones she didn’t do it? Why, you would brave past your lack of experience and hatch a plan to break her out! The Next Three days takes you through that process and the great action of the jailbreak attempt. All along you have a nagging feeling that he might be wrong about his wife’s innocence, which serves to elevate the regular suspense of staying ahead of cops and bad-guys.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Russell Crowe is in a straight forward role that highlights his strengths as a manly get-it-done fellow. Elizabeth Banks is only mildly believable as someone who has been in jail 3 years, but nevertheless a solid performance. Liam Neeson – perfect for the hardened and experienced jail-break dude, but a really short part. And, an even shorter part from the old standby Brian Dennehy – too bad.

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Good 3.0

    The movie was on par for a good crime drama. The only format I had a hard time with was skipping past the “why did they jail her” – which you understood, but never experienced. More was revealed much later in the movie, which made for a good ending.

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.6

17. Sex Innocent 1.5

18. Violence Fierce 1.8

19. Rudeness Polite 1.5

21. Reality

    Glib 1.8

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.8

23. Biological Glib 1.8

24. Physical Glib 1.8