THE NEXT 3 DAYS

I rated this movie a 2 and Bill gave it a 7. Can this marriage be saved?

Russell Crowe is convinced of his wife's innocence in the murder of her boss and because all legal avenues have been exhausted, he hatches this plan to escape her from jail. Many nonsensical and totally unbelievable things then ensue - acted at a high school musical production level.

There is never any explanation of the murder or the motive. Elizabeth Banks who plays the murderess is so put - together even after 3 years in prison and when she is visited in jail (oh, sometimes they are allowed passionate embraces and french kissing and other times the guards growl fiercely when they go to touch hands across the table.) she is always curled and made-up and sunny.

Crowe performs some murders on his own in order to get money for the life they will lead on the run. The cops are complete idiots and rival the Keystone Kops for sheer bungle-idity. and yet at the end of the movie, a detective crouches down in the parking lot where the murder took place and finds the evidence that the wife had been talking about ever since her arrest. Being a true crime aficionado and a realist, the police and lawyers and judges do NOT investigate crimes on their own in order to prove their own prior stupidity and legal error.

Brian Dennehy is Crowe's dad and I thought he was supposed to have had a stroke because his face never moved and he had 4 words of dialogue. The music was obtrusive and non-musical.

Crowe's idea to get her out of the prison building was to steal into a medlab van and change her lab values in her medical file. (she just happens to be a diabetic on insulin.) And he put her into ketoacidosis; a medical emergency. However, as the prison people are putting her on a stretcher and putting her in an ambulance she has never looked so good!! Makeup intact, rosy cheeks, coherent, dry skin, hair fluffed, not vomiting; looked like she was on her way to a garden party. but the lab values were so bad - she should have been unconscious and in dire physical straits.

I think the title of the movie more accurately illustrates the length of time i felt i spent in the theater watching this loser of a movie.