Task 37 – “Next Three Days” Movie Review

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Movie: Next Three Days
Rating: 4-Stars

The movie starts with John Brennan (Russell Crowe) driving aggressively with the sounds of an injured passenger moaning from the back seat. Suddenly we flash back to John and his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) sharing dinner with his brother and wife. Lara is on edge after an argument with her boss and takes it out on the less the friendly sister-in-law. The following morning a diabetic Lara injects herself with insulin and discovers blood on her jacket as she gets ready for work. Before leaving she is caught washing the blood away as police raid their house with an arrest warrant for murdering her boss.

It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. She suggests a mysterious woman she claimed to have bumped into while enter the parking garage is the real murderer and she lost a button in the scuffle. With no evidence of this woman and the mountain of physical evidence against her she is sent to prison. 

Failing to win an appeal and having no more chances her husband, John begins crafting a plan to break her out.  He meets with a known convict who escaped from prison to learn as much as he can. He carefully studies the prison nearly getting arrested for making a bump key and falsifies her blood work to show she has dangerously high glucose levels. A suddenly and unexpected prison reassignment threatens to derail his plan and he is left with only the Next Three Days to get her out.