Recently I watched "The Next Three Days" with Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. Apparently Olivia Wilde is in it too. I thought it looked decent and that it might turn out to be an exciting action flick. I was wrong. Three fourths of the movie is Russell Crowe's character plotting to get his wife (Banks) out of jail for a murder she didn't commit. Whoever decided this movie was a "thriller" may need more life excitement. Liam Neeson is in it for 5 minutes and is the best part of the movie. They should have given his character a bigger role. Crowe's character comes up with this plan so elaborate that it would never actually work. Multiple things go wrong and spoiler: it still works. It got a 51% on Rotten Tomatoes and most people agreed with me, boring and seemingly unplausible.
The other movie I watch recently was the third installment of the Chronicles of Narnia, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." I've said it before and I'll say it again, the BBC miniseries of this is so much better. Yes it lacks at the CG digital effects, but they fit so much more in and stay truer to the book. This new version has lots of snazzy effects and looks cool, but they changed and left out a lot. Liam Neelson is once again in this one for about 5 minutes, as the voice of Aslan, and it once again pretty much the best part. Ben Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian, is an English cutie. That's about all this movie has to offer us older viewers. So maybe this movie would be good if you were a kid and maybe I should stop watching children's movies, but most have a little inside joke or two for the adults in the room. This movie also got a 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. Given the choice to watch one of these two movies again, I'd go with Narnia.
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