What do you expect out of an escape plot? That it should be convincing. This is not achieved by getting a guy to say that no system is full-proof. Contrast this film with something like 'The shawshank redemption'. With minimal physical action, the latter convinces us that it is actually possible to escape from shawshank. Nowhere in the film I felt like the hero has really outperformed the authority.
The plot seemed to be confused at best. This is an escape plot shot like a rescue film. It wastes too much time trying to answer "why" and in the end fails there too. The narrative pace never fully takes off and just when I thought its pacing up, the film ended abruptly. What I want to see in a rescue film is "how", where the film falls flat on its face.
Very little effort has been made to explain why would the guy want to break her out of prison, what convinces him that she is innocent? I know that she's his wife, but she's not our wife - and in the end what matters is why WE want to see her out of prison. Do we sympathize with the victim? I couldn't. She is probably going nuts in her cell, but we never get to see what she is actually going through inside the prison. Being gorgeous is not enough to relate with the audience.
I gave it four points for the craftsmanship behind the film - good cinematography and great editing. I hear Hollywood is getting it's own version of the film. I believe that film will benefit from cranking up the action slightly and tension a lot.
The plot seemed to be confused at best. This is an escape plot shot like a rescue film. It wastes too much time trying to answer "why" and in the end fails there too. The narrative pace never fully takes off and just when I thought its pacing up, the film ended abruptly. What I want to see in a rescue film is "how", where the film falls flat on its face.
Very little effort has been made to explain why would the guy want to break her out of prison, what convinces him that she is innocent? I know that she's his wife, but she's not our wife - and in the end what matters is why WE want to see her out of prison. Do we sympathize with the victim? I couldn't. She is probably going nuts in her cell, but we never get to see what she is actually going through inside the prison. Being gorgeous is not enough to relate with the audience.
I gave it four points for the craftsmanship behind the film - good cinematography and great editing. I hear Hollywood is getting it's own version of the film. I believe that film will benefit from cranking up the action slightly and tension a lot.