Weekly Posters: Subtle Poster For Russel Crowe’s ‘The Next Three Days’

Russel Crow has lost his golden box office power these days while that can’t be said about his weight. Hoping to take a different route after ‘Robin Hood’ didn’t do too great, Crowe appears next in the dramatic thriller ‘The Next Three Days’ by Paul Haggis (Crash). The trailer appeared a few weeks ago but spoiled way too much to be recommended. This poster, however, is pretty subtle.

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.

It’s interesting that we can hardly see Crowe’s face in the poster yet we still have bold billing above the title. There’s a lot of stuff going on too, which adds to the depth of it. It will certainly be a great experience thanks to the talent involved, and that’s why I plan to go in fresh. I suggest you do too.

Movie opens 19 November, 2010