The Next Three Days (3/5)
Posted on 11 Mar 2011
I can’t quite put my finger on what made this look so made for TV. Paul Haggis has great storytelling abilities, puts the camera in occasionally fascinating places, and gets fine performances out of his actors, but things sag. The narrative rides a peculiar little device of stating how things are three hours before, three days before, three years before or something. A nice concept but not as effective as they probably hoped. And someone lost a bet to Moby because the middle act features a confounding and sucky music video.
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