72 hours - The Next Three Days
| Movie | |
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| German title | 72 hours - The Next Three Days |
| Original title | The Next Three Days |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Haggis |
| script | Paul Haggis Fred Cavayé |
| production |
Michael Nozik Olivier Delbosc Paul Haggis Marc Missonnier |
| music |
Danny Elfman Alberto Iglesias |
| camera | Stéphane Fontaine |
| cut | Jo Francis |
| occupation | |
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The Next Three Days - 72 hours is a suspense thriller from writer-director Paul Haggis from the year 2010 . The film is a remake of the French thriller Without Guilt from 2008.
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John Brennan, a senior lecturer at the local college, is in his forties , his wife Lara, and their son Luke live in Pittsburgh . Her quiet middle-class life comes to an abrupt end when the police break into her house and arrest Lara: she is suspected of murdering her boss. She was killed with a fire extinguisher and found in the parking lot of Lara's workplace. Immediately before the crime, Lara had an argument with this woman in front of witnesses. Shortly after the crime, a colleague sees Lara's car driving away.
The evidence against Lara is overwhelming: her fingerprints are on the murder weapon and the blood of the murdered woman is on her coat. Lara's statement that a probably homeless woman collided with her in the parking lot and ran away cannot be verified. She is sentenced to life in prison . Until her legal remedies have been exhausted, she is held in a local prison.
Almost three years later, Lara increasingly suffers from the fact that her son Luke, who visits her regularly with her husband John in prison, turns away from her. John fights for a revision of the verdict. But he gives up this fight after his lawyer tells him that the chances are extremely slim. Shortly after John reported this to Lara, she tried to commit suicide . John promises his wife that her future will not be vegetating in a prison cell for life.
John prepares to rescue his wife. First, he contacted a man over the Internet who had broken out of prison seven times. He gave him basic information: the whole family needed new passports with different names, new social security numbers , and he also had a driver's license made in the new name. During the escape, the inner control circle of the city must be passed through after 15 minutes at the latest, the periphery after 35 minutes at the latest, since Pittsburgh, like all other large cities in America, has lockdown plans in the event of terrorist attacks: All arterial roads, train stations and airports could be in a short time Control points are set up.
When he tries to use a bump key for the elevator during a visit to the prison, it breaks off. The alarm goes off and John is almost arrested. Even the attempt to get the required papers through small drug dealers initially only leads to being beaten and robbed. A second attempt succeeds.
John's money is running out. All the furniture has been sold, the family's house does find a buyer, but since Lara is to be moved to another prison after the unsuccessful application for an appeal, the remaining three days are not enough to complete the sale.
To get money, John wants to rob a bank. However, he is too nervous to even get out of his car and carry out the robbery.
So John follows a dealer to a crystal meth production kitchen and extorts a large amount of cash at gunpoint, which the dealers store there. The meth kitchen robbery ends with John shooting a drug dealer and another dying in John's car while trying to take him to a hospital.
With this last scene in the car, the film had already started. Then with the fade-in “ Three years ago ”, the prehistory up to this point follows in a flashback. The scene is now repeated, then it continues after the fade-in " The next three days " (English original title).
John dumps the dealer's body at a bus stop. Now the Pittsburgh Police Department is investigating the case. John hit a garbage can while escaping. The broken taillight of his Toyota Prius is a first trace. In the opinion of the police experts, hybrid vehicles like this car are hardly allowed to target criminals from the drug milieu, so that the group of suspects is quickly narrowed down.
John's parents keep looking after Luke. When John, exhausted, falls asleep with Luke and the two of them, his father, with whom John has a difficult relationship, discovers the plane tickets they have already bought. When John says goodbye, his father hugs him. Lara is diabetic . John spies on the supply vehicle of a private health service providing treatment for the prisoners. When the pharmacy delivery boy is in jail, John looks for Lara's medical record in his van and photographs it with his cell phone. He manipulates the document so that Lara's glucose values indicate an acute danger to life and prints it out. At the next opportunity he destroys the laboratory's telephone lines and exchanges the modified version for the original medical record in the car. After an unsuccessful attempt to reach the laboratory by phone, Lara is transported to the hospital by ambulance. John follows the car, enters the hospital room, threatens the staff with his pistol and flees with his initially reluctant wife. They only narrowly escape the police who are investigating the case of the dead drug dealer; they discover that John's apartment has already been vacated and conclude that he is planning a rescue operation. John timed the breakout to coincide with an ice hockey game so the two can immerse themselves in the fans. After a dramatic car chase, John and Lara escape in a getaway vehicle parked near a subway station.
The police have found a sack with pictures and notes about the escape and escape plan in John's garbage can. A picture shows the Presidential Palace of Haiti . John had brought his son Luke to a children's birthday party before the rescue operation. When he and Lara want to pick him up, they learn that the children have taken a trip to the zoo. A detour via the zoo would jeopardize the schedule for the escape, so John wants to leave Luke behind for the time being. When Lara then desperately tries to drop out of the moving car, he gives in and drives to the zoo.
Since John expects that a parent and a boy will be searched for on the arterial roads, he invites an elderly couple to come along. This way the family can pass the controls. John's parents are interrogated. However, John's father took his wife on a long drive that day to see the autumn colors. John's father claims not to talk to his son and therefore does not know his destination. Even if this is not really done for him, the police cannot prove anything. When the three of them have already passed through passport control in the airport, the police stop and search the only flight of the day to Haiti. However, John, Lara and Luke checked in for a flight to Caracas , the capital of Venezuela , and escaped. John had purposely thrown away some of the notes so that the police could easily find them, in order to send them on the wrong track.
John's father opens an atlas and looks for a map of Venezuela. He finds her and leans back smiling.
The responsible investigator starts a new investigation into Lara's murder case. At the scene of the crime, he looks in the pouring rain for a torn button that Lara spoke of. This should belong to the real perpetrator and could thus substantiate Lara's innocence. The button is actually in a gully, but is just overlooked by the investigator and was finally washed away when the lid is lowered.
Reviews
“You [Elizabeth Banks] and the usual convincing, cautiously acting Crowe are a believable couple in a family and love drama, which in the second hour develops into a thriller with irresistible tension and with actually familiar reaction patterns not only the fleeing ones, but also makes her pursuer, an observant cop, look smart. "
“The second half of the film contrasts with the slow first part, in which '72 hours - The Next Three Days' becomes an adrenaline-charged action thriller. Although additional tension is sometimes created here with unnecessary, improbable elements, Paul Haggis proves that he can stage an action film with craftsmanship: The careful editing, supported by the restless film music by Danny Elfman and Alberto Iglesias, allows the viewer to do the parallel montage On the other hand, it creates tension typical of the genre as to whether the daring venture will succeed. Despite logical inconsistencies and staging weaknesses, however, in '72 hours - The Next Three Days' the psychogram of its main character, who is also embodied by Russell Crowe with withdrawn play, is impressive . Crowes John Brennan is convincing as an average citizen who outgrows himself out of love for his family, as anyone who manages to break out of the hopeless situation with his unconditional will. "
“ The Next Three Days is an exciting mix of drama and thriller, but it loses some plausibility points. [...] Ultimately, and this is shown to us above all by a masterful Russell Crowe, it is and remains a film that is thoroughly entertaining. "
“Like the original, 'LA Crash' director Paul Haggis takes a lot of time in his two-hour production to plan the act of desperation. [...] Only in the last third, in the eponymous three days, does '72 hours' pick up speed and develop into a gripping thriller which, however, often seems implausible. Small failures testify to Haggis' realistic approach, but it is completely unclear how the loving family man and kind-hearted teacher mutated into an unscrupulous killer from one minute to the next. And if he can then hang out the police by putting on a different jacket, that doesn't make the story any more authentic. At least the restrained game of Crowe […] and Banks […] belies the limping story a little. The answer to the question of whether Laura (sic!) Has now committed the act or not, one could have given herself after all the trouble. Conclusion: Something far-fetched, but excellently cast crime drama that only captivates in the last third. "
“Remake of a French thriller that focuses on the main character's moral conflict. The story, which is not exactly believable, sometimes takes itself too seriously, but knows how to keep the processes exciting and interesting with a lot of tricks and a keen eye for details. "
At Metacritic, the film achieved a Metascore of 52%. Of the film reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 51% are positive. (As of March 2018)
publication
After the premiere of the film on November 9, 2010 in New York City , the film opened in US cinemas on November 19, 2010 . In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on January 20, 2011. The Austrian film distributor is Elmo Movieworld, the German film distributor is Kinowelt . With a budget of around 30 million US dollars, the film grossed around 67.5 million US dollars at box offices worldwide.
Web links
- 72 hours - The Next Three Days in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 72 hours - The Next Three Days at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- 72 hours - The Next Three Days at Metacritic (English)
- 72 hours - The Next Three Days in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for 72 Hours - The Next Three Days . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 121 K).
- ↑ Age rating for 72 hours - The Next Three Days . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Review of 72 hours - The Next Three Days at kino.de
- ↑ Review of 72 hours - The Next Three Days at textezumfilm.de
- ↑ Critique of 72 hours - The Next Three Days at outnow.ch
- ↑ Critique of 72 hours - The Next Three Days at cinema.de
- ↑ Critique of 72 hours - The Next Three Days at filmdienst.de
- ↑ 72 hours - The Next Three Days at Metacritic (English)
- ↑ 72 hours - The Next Three Days at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ publication of 72 hours - The Next Three Days in the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ grossing of 72 hours - The Next Three Days at Box Office Mojo