lucienstephens This movie pleasantly surprised me, I was expecting 2 hours of mindless action when instead I got a great movie with a unique story. This is just my kind of film I have said in the past that stand alone, interesting stories are the best kind of movies and this is one of them. A perfect amount of action blends into the question of did she do it?. This movie kept me guessing and kept me staring at the screen for 2 hours. However like all films it has its draw backs. It does include a couple of scenes that try to show a characters emotions but push it to unbelievable. But thats just a tiny nit pick. I highly recommend this movie.

emmkj20 Yes a well acted movie that needs an ending it's slow pace results in an unwelcome open ending. Shock horror she gets out... after watching Crowe's character flap around for over an hour and a half - the ending should close out 1. she's shot by cops, 2. proves innocence or 3. is caught with himself shot or visa versa.. or 4. Twist of all twists she's turns out to be a crazed killer ... none of which happen ... what a damp squib ending ....

alindsay-al Russel crowe is one of the most recognisable names in Hollywood so I'm interested in anything he is in and I thought this was an alright film. The premise sees a school teacher try and break his wife out of prison and reunite his family. Now this movie only works because of the fantastic performance from russel crowe. He is a truly damaged character who just wants to have his family and his old life back and he will do anything to get it. You root for him but at the same time realise that maybe he is going to far. Elizabeth banks was good as his wife and there was allot of intrigue about the character and their chemistry worked for me. The kid was also pretty good in this movie. There are quite a few characters in this movie that are pointless and unnecessary such as the cops, crowes parents and Olivia Wilde's character that dragged down the film. I like the premise of the story, it is really interesting and I also really like the character development that crowe has. But like I said before there are just too many pointless filler plot threads in this movie and also I think the ending could have been done in a better way. The script wasn't that interesting at all with the dialogue being the main weakness of the film and also some things that characters do comes across as illogical. The style was really cool, I loved the suspense in the film and the action scenes that happened were really cool too. Overall this is a decent movie but I don't really care to see it again.

kapelusznik18 *****SPOILERS**** An overly chunky an fat a** looking Russell Crowe plays English Collage teacher John Brennan who's wife Lara, Elizabeth Banks, has been sent up the river for 20 to life in the murder of her boss Elizabth Gesas, Leslie Mirrill, on suspecting of her making eyes on Lara's dreamboat of a husband. Not taking it lying down Brennan who's sure that she's innocent plans to spring Lara from the joint, or jail, and take off with her and their son Luke, Ty Simpkins, to South or Central America to avoid capture. Before Brennan pulls all this off he heads up to this sleazy bar in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, from his home in Pittsburgh, to get professional advise from jail brake expert Damon Pennington played in a cameo role, where he didn't have enough screen time to kill anyone, Hollywood #1 Macho Man Liam Neeson. Given all the ins and out in breaking out of prison and being under the radar Brennan together with Pennington concocts this far out plan to free his wife who incidentally doesn't claim she's innocent of the crime that she was convicted of!Following Pennington's expert advice Brannan gets involved with some of the worst of the worst criminals that almost leaves him dead, by him being taken advantage of by them, until he finally wises up and stops playing Mr. Good Guy. Knowing that he needs lots of cash to pull, getting his wife out of jail, this off Brannan rips off this me-th dealer, who earlier had his head busted by two of his goons, by setting fire to his me-th lab as well as him inside. Now with everything he needs to make a clean gateway for himself wife & son,lots of money fake passports drivers licenses as well as birth certificates, Brannan make his escape to far off Toronto Canada, well out of US jurisdiction, to take a plane to South America as well as to freedom. That with the Keystone Kop like Pittsburgh police and FBI agents hot on his tail going in a different direction.****SPOILERS**** It doesn't take much for Brennan to make his perusers look ridicules with the man in charge Pittsburgh police Let.Nabulsi, Lennie James, falling for every trick or false clue in the book that Brannan leaves him ending up getting out of both the USA & Canada with his wife & son untouched and unnoticed by the elite, what a joke, law enforcement agencies of both countries. What comes as a both surprise as well as happy ending is that it's revealed, in a very confusing flash-back, who really murdered Elizabeth Gesas, remember her, who by then was totally forgotten about in all the action leading up to it. The very at first overweight looking Russell Crowe must have lost 30 to 50 pounds by him sliming down in all the action scenes, without a body double, he was in the movie. Which made me wonder if that, the exercise, was the reason he took the part which seemed to be, in all the better films he made in his career,well beneath his acting talents and the only reason I could think of him being in the movie in the first place!