The husband
of a girl accused of murder is prepared to do anything for her, including
evading her from prison.
Much
maligned on the release this surprisingly good movie feature the best Russel
Crowe performance of quite some time. The whole point of the movie is to take a
typical Hollywood situation, a prison break, and put a normal person, a college
professor, in the main action role. The results are both unusual, our hero
never become a gun toting Bruce Willis style guy, he spends most of the running
time preparing and rehearsing, and gripping, our hero makes so many mistakes
and he is so obviously not very confident in his role that there is a clear
sense that anything could go wrong.
Crowe is
perfect as the ordinary man with a steely resolve; he is still one of the best
in the business. For very peculiar reasons, mainly his bad temper, it is
fashionable to bash him, but to judge an actor from his off screen antics is
really, very stupid.
The movie
in itself is not perfect. The last bit, the actual prison break, is very good
and engaging but it takes forever to get there and, Crowe performance notwithstanding
is too slow and little bit boring. There is an interesting angle about the
Wife, Elisabeth Banks, where we are forced to ponder the very real possibility
that she really did kill her boss. This neatly augments the main theme of the
movie.
A nice
dramatic movie, recommended to fans of the genre.
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