Ratings: 7.0/10Film Class: B
Genre: Suspense Drama
2 hours is a little long for this movie, since there aren't many climaxes and the dull film color gives a rather low-budget and depressing feel to it. Acting wise pretty impressive and convincing. And in terms of realism, it's almost there because I was able to experience an average man's desperation to commit a crime.
A happily married man's wife was accused of murder and their lives were turned upside down. On the verge of despair, his wife attempted suicide due to a lack of evidence to clear her name. Scarred by his wife's wrongful accusation and powered with blind faith on his wife's innocent, he committed himself to break his wife out of prison.
It's not your typical Hollywood movie, it doens't have explosive car chases and there's no such state-of-the-art equipment to aid in the protagonist's cause. Instead, the realism which I mentioned was how the director was able to tone-down the explosive level of the movie and at the same time keeping it seat-gripping at times. This movie was much more than a re-enactment of a prison break, it raises the possibilities of how far one will go for the person he/she loves.
In a society where "evidence" predominates justice, the only way to really distinguish right and wrong is to follow one's heart and faith. *spoilers ahead* The ending threw the film's direction a little off track and it almost created a gigantic loophole in the movie, only to throw it back on track at the very last minute and reminded us that there was rarely such a thing as a "happily ever after" in real life. Haven't seen Russell Crowe that vulnerable in any movie but it sure was a heartening experience. To quote another's observation, there's possibly only a few actors in Hollywood who would pull off potraying a thousand emotions with just his facial expression, and Russell Crowe was able to do it brilliantly.
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