Breaking out of the form

The Next Three Days (2010)

Paul Haggis is an odd director. He made the absolutely brilliant Crash (2004) but since then has been almost invisible. In the Valley of Elah (2007) was just an ok drama and didn't really cash in the expectations that Crash set him. So I was surely looking forward to seeing his new movie. It's a story about a woman who gets accused for murder and sent to jail, her husband then decides to break her out of there. That's basically the story in short, but it's fortunately a bit deeper than that, weighting moral questions and how far is too far. Pretty basic stuff in a movie like this, but still at points it manages to scratch the surface a bit deeper. Unfortunately otherwise the story is quite dull, surely the details of the plot come as a surprise but the movie runs on a predictable track giving very little surprises. And that's a shame as it had all the makings of a better movie. The cast is quite good and the mood is quite nice also, but you just feel like it's nothing you haven't seen before. It's not a bad movie in any means, it's actually better than most of it's kind, but still it's far from a great movie as well.
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