导演:保罗·哈吉斯
编剧:弗雷德·卡瓦耶
保罗·哈吉斯
主演:罗素·克劳
伊丽莎白·班克斯
连姆·尼森
首映日期:2010-11-19(美国)
2011-04-29(中国大陆)
Crowe gives his best, most sympathetic performance in years in the corking thriller The Next Three Days.
《危情三日》是一部很棒的惊悚片,电影中克劳的表演是几年来最好的、最能引起人们共鸣的。
——Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express
One of the best movies of the year.
年度最佳电影之一。
——Joshua Tyler, CinemaBlend.com
I enjoyed this movie and I think it's a little underrated. The story is simple and it's very entertaining to watch everything play out.
我很喜欢这部电影,我认为它有点儿被低估了。这个故事很简单,观看整个过程很有趣。
——Cody G
Lara Brennan(Elizabeth Banks)is convicted of murdering her boss after an altercation at work and after a trial is sentenced to life in prison. Following the failure of her appeal, Lara's husband John Brennan(Russell Crowe),a professor at a community college, becomes obsessed with the idea of breaking her out of jail, while their son Luke(Ty Simpkins)ceases to acknowledge her during their prison visits.
John consults Damon Pennington(Liam Neeson), a former convict who successfully escaped from prison seven times. Damon advises John to study the prison where his wife is, saying “every prison has a key”. Damon also warns him that the initial escape from the prison will be easy compared with avoiding capture after the escape. To that end, John must obtain false passports, new social security numbers, and a “truckload of cash” to have a chance of success. Damon also suggests going to an unpopular foreign country for Americans so that authorities will be unlikely to look for them there. John learns Pittsburgh's time to lock-down the city's exits after a call is made to do so: 15 minutes for the city center and 35 minutes for all interstates, secondary roads, and stations or airports. Damon Pennington tells John to ask himself if he can really “be that guy” who knocks over an old lady or shoots a guard if it's the difference between escape or getting caught.
John contemplates several ideas that do not pan out and is defeated more than once, but he latches onto a solid plan and the necessary paperwork after some painful efforts. He robs a drug lord and sets his meth lab on fire before fleeing the scene. He then falsifies and plants blood work results indicating that his wife is in a state of hyperkalaemia, so she is transferred to the hospital. He follows the ambulance and helps her escape although she is doubtful and reluctant, motivated only by the idea of her son being raised without either parent.
With the police getting some lucky breaks, they are hot on John and Lara's trail through a series of chases. Throughout the film, John is shown assembling maps, photographs, notes, and other papers on a wall of his house, He tears them down and stuffs them into several garbage bags before leaving to rescue Lara, leaving one bag in the trash outside his home, and the rest in a dumpster some blocks away. As it turns out, he did this selectively to misguide the detectives regarding their final destination. They have an uncomfortable moment at passport control, as a Canadian officer examines their passports and glances at the page of photographs showing people to stop. He allows them to pass. The shift changes, and as they walk down the hall, their photos are added to the list. An international flight is delayed, but the police were after the wrong destination.
At the end of the film, the family ends up safe in Caracas, Venezuela. Back in the United States, a detective who had attempted to catch Brennan returns to the scene of the crime although it had been some years since the crime occurred. Using his forensic skills, he manages to put together what really happened. It turns out that the killer of Lara's boss was really just a mugger—as she claimed in open court—and a series of coincidences led to Lara's conviction. He remembers Lara saying a button popped off as she passed the mugger, and notices that it is raining just as it had been the night of the murder He tosses a piece of paper in the current where the button would have fallen off, and it leads into a gutter. He searches the gutter but is unable to find the button to prove Lara's innocence. It turns out the button was there, buried under grime, and the detective just missed it. The last shot of this detective shows him turning back to think, implying that there is a possibility of him taking a second look and locating the button, which would've led to the exoneration of Lara. However, that is left open to audience speculation.
劳拉·布伦南(伊丽莎白·班克斯饰)被指控由于工作中的摩擦而谋杀了她的老板,庭审后被判无期徒刑。上诉被驳回后,劳拉身为社区大学教授的丈夫约翰·布伦南(罗素·克劳饰)却幻想着帮助她越狱,而他们的儿子卢克(泰·辛普金斯饰)却在监狱探视时不再认她这个妈妈了。
约翰向达蒙·彭宁顿(连姆·尼森饰)这位曾经蒙冤,并七次成功越狱的过来人求教。达蒙建议约翰仔细观察她妻子所在的监狱,并说每个监狱都有“一把钥匙”。达蒙还告诫他逃出监狱不算难,但难的是逃出后不被抓住。最后,最重要的是,约翰还必须弄到假护照、新的社会保险账号和大量的现金才能提高成功率。达蒙还建议最好选一个美国人不关注的国家,这样当局就不会去那种地方找他们。约翰了解到匹兹堡在收到通知到关闭各城市间通道的时间间隔:城中心是15分钟,各州间、二级公路和车站机场是35分钟。达蒙·彭宁顿让约翰在行动前,先问问自己是否愿意成为一个“打倒老妇人或射杀保安”的暴徒,逃跑和被追捕之间是否不同。
约翰苦思冥想,想出了几个办法,却都没有敲定,他一次次地推翻重来,但几经努力,他最终锁定了一个周详的计划并准备了必要的文件。他抢劫了一个毒枭并在离开现场前,放火烧了那儿的毒品实验室。然后,他伪造了一份血液检测报告证明她妻子有高血糖症,这样她将会被移送到医院,他就可以尾随救护车,并伺机帮她逃跑。虽然她妻子疑虑重重、极不情愿,但为了不让他们的孩子在没有父母照料的环境下长大,她还是同意了他的计划。
由于幸运,警察经过一系列的追踪,他们发现了约翰和劳拉的行踪线索。在影片中,约翰在自己房间的墙上,不断地拼合着各种地图、照片、便条和各种纸张。在他出发去救劳拉前,把墙上所有东西扯下来,装满了几个垃圾袋,一包丢到他家门前的垃圾桶里,其他的扔到了几个街区外的垃圾桶里。最终证明,他这样做是为了让侦探搞不清他们最终要去的目的地。他们在入境护照检查时发生了惊险的一幕:当一位加拿大官员查看他们的护照时,只看了几眼照片就示意其他人停止办理。然而他让他们过去了,原来是他要换班了。他们走进大厅,他们的照片被加入到候机名单中。国际航班晚点了,而此时警察正在赶往错误的目的地。
影片结束时,这个家庭在委内瑞拉的加拉加斯安全团聚。镜头回到美国,一位想抓住布伦南的侦探返回到凶案现场,虽然凶案已经过去了很多年。运用法理推理技巧,他正设法找出真相。推理结果证明杀死劳拉老板的真凶确实是一名抢窃犯——正如她在庭审中申明的那样——是一系列的巧合导致了劳拉的冤情。他还记得劳拉说过她经过抢窃犯身边时掉了一个纽扣。他注意到,跟谋杀发生当晚一样,现在天上正在下雨,在劳拉纽扣可能跌落的地方,他撕下一张纸扔到地上的雨水中,那张纸随水流人了排水沟,他搜遍了排水沟,却没有找到那颗可以证明劳拉无辜的纽扣。事实上,纽扣被埋到了淤泥下面,侦探没有发现。最后一个镜头是:这位侦探在回忆,暗示他可能会去再找一遍,并最终发现那颗纽扣,从而为劳拉昭雪。影片就此给观众留下了一个悬念。