Russell Crowe is an interesting actor to me. He started his career with bangers. Absolute master pieces. Gladiator and American Gangster and A Beautiful Mind. And then like 6 years ago he just kinda started not making bangers and making just like these kinda fun thrillers. And stayed in that. Not complaining but an interesting career arc.
Russell Crowes wife Elizabeth Banks get wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for murder. So obviously local community college professor Russell Crowe has to hatch a scheme to break her out of the toughest prison to escape from in American. He spend the movie learning how to do it and doing all that it will take with her completely unaware of what he is hatching.
Funny side note: the guy who he meets secretly at he bar to tell him how to escape from a prison (he has done it before) is no other than? LIAM FUCKING NEESON. Love it. This is a SOLID FILM. That is a review.