No matter what happens in The next three days, it’s going to be the ride of a lifetime.
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The trailer begins with a man and his loving family at the dawn of a beautiful morning. He and his son are sitting in the kitchen when the man’s wife comes and does her daily routine. This is to take a picture of the family, something she does every morning. A peaceful picture to behold and a hearth warming morning for many. It’s the usual set up for a movie like this. Although I am sure that this part of the movie will set up the characters quite nicely.
Alas, all good things come to an end. The police come a knocking on their door to arrest the mother for murder. Three years pass and the family has all but broken. The son has distanced from his mother, John is trying so hard to keep it all together, finding evidence in the meantime of her innocence and Lara is nearing the end of her wits. So, when they lose their final appeal, Lara attempts to take her life. This part of the trailer really had me connected to the characters. I already cared for them in the way that I wanted it to work out for them.
John then sees no other choice then to take the matter in to his own hands. By seeking help from a man who is an expert on this matter, he devises a plan to break his wife out of jail. Basically it all turns in to a prison break ish trailer after this, where John prepares to break in, eventually does and break his wife out. But, the difference between Prison Break and this is that there’s only a few characters, as opposed to Prison Break’s many. This gives the characters more time to go evolve so that the character grows and our connection to that character grows.
Lastly we see a cat and mouse game between the law and our loving family, even though we didn’t really see what happened to the kid. The action we see in this last part is like I expected to see in a movie like this, so I’m fairly positive that this will turn out great.
Let’s be honest here though, this trailer isn’t exactly the most original crayon in the box. We’ve all seen it before at one time or another. But, what really has me having high hopes for this movie is the great cast. Staring as John is the ever so great Russel Crowe, the evenly great Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy (Andy Goodman in Category 6: Day of Destruction), Olivia Wilde (Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley in House M.D.) and Elisabeth Banks (Dr. Kim Briggs from Scrubs).
Most notably however is the director. Paul Haggis might be a recognized name, but he has made some great movies that have really made an impact on me. Just look at Crash and In the Valley of Elah, which he directed. You might be interested to know he also wrote a few movies like the two previously mentioned, Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale, Letters from Iwo Jima and WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. I mean, come on, how can you go wrong then? The man wrote for fucking Chuck Norris.
So, even though we’ve seen the trailer many times before, I’m really hoping that Paul Haggis and the crew behind him manages to turn it around and really produce a movie that will be discussed for a very long time.
Alas, all good things come to an end. The police come a knocking on their door to arrest the mother for murder. Three years pass and the family has all but broken. The son has distanced from his mother, John is trying so hard to keep it all together, finding evidence in the meantime of her innocence and Lara is nearing the end of her wits. So, when they lose their final appeal, Lara attempts to take her life. This part of the trailer really had me connected to the characters. I already cared for them in the way that I wanted it to work out for them.
John then sees no other choice then to take the matter in to his own hands. By seeking help from a man who is an expert on this matter, he devises a plan to break his wife out of jail. Basically it all turns in to a prison break ish trailer after this, where John prepares to break in, eventually does and break his wife out. But, the difference between Prison Break and this is that there’s only a few characters, as opposed to Prison Break’s many. This gives the characters more time to go evolve so that the character grows and our connection to that character grows.
Lastly we see a cat and mouse game between the law and our loving family, even though we didn’t really see what happened to the kid. The action we see in this last part is like I expected to see in a movie like this, so I’m fairly positive that this will turn out great.
Let’s be honest here though, this trailer isn’t exactly the most original crayon in the box. We’ve all seen it before at one time or another. But, what really has me having high hopes for this movie is the great cast. Staring as John is the ever so great Russel Crowe, the evenly great Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy (Andy Goodman in Category 6: Day of Destruction), Olivia Wilde (Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley in House M.D.) and Elisabeth Banks (Dr. Kim Briggs from Scrubs).
Most notably however is the director. Paul Haggis might be a recognized name, but he has made some great movies that have really made an impact on me. Just look at Crash and In the Valley of Elah, which he directed. You might be interested to know he also wrote a few movies like the two previously mentioned, Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale, Letters from Iwo Jima and WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. I mean, come on, how can you go wrong then? The man wrote for fucking Chuck Norris.
So, even though we’ve seen the trailer many times before, I’m really hoping that Paul Haggis and the crew behind him manages to turn it around and really produce a movie that will be discussed for a very long time.
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