Despite working from his own script, Haggis seems unsure whether he’s directing a fun action romp or a serious moral drama; this ends up being neither.
A laborious thriller that lacks wit, intelligence, and, most unforgivably, thrills.
The Next Three Days isn't a masterpiece and hardly reinvents the genre but it's a solid thriller that, aided by Crowe's performance and Haggis' direction, will keep you glued to the screen.
The Next Three Days is perfunctory fare that seems to last almost as long as its title.
Haggis may not do subtlety, but a bit of narrative consistency would have been a start.
Okay, but it lacks conviction.
Good fun for the last 90 minutes. Take a sandwich for the first 40.
If you saw Pour Elle you’ll have a fair idea what happens next. If not, you’ll find Haggis’s picture a serviceable thriller with some impressive flourishes.
Crowe is surprisingly humorous in a well-constructed thriller that features good character dynamics and some terrific set-pieces.
Unexciting thriller.
Haggis is a talent, no question, but after his tremendous Iraq drama In the Valley of Elah this must count as a step backwards.
The whole movie is an elaborately hand-drawn nine-dollar bill.
The climactic action sequence is reasonably tense, when it finally comes, but we care so little about the participants that it's not much more than a YouTube tutorial itself.
Unfortunately, holes in the plot became more obvious in the remake, and neither Crowe nor Banks matches the levels of determination and despair that Vincent Lindon and Diane Kruger brought to the same roles in the original film.
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