With two really good lead actors and people I like to watch (The very versatile Tommy Lee Jones and the beautiful Ashley Judd)
It stares Tommy Lee Jones as Travis Lehman, a parole officer, Ashley Judd as Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons, Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood as Nicholas "Nick" Parsons, Annabeth Gish as Angela "Angi" Green who stares as Libby's best friend and Benjamin Weir as her son Matty.
This is a very intense story, a type of "The Fugitive," except this time it's a woman chasing down her ex-husband who set her up for murder. She gets convicted and spends several years in prison, and then emerges bent on finding her husband and son so as to take her revenge on the former and rescue the latter.
The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy, A fellow prison inmate advises Libby she could kill her husband in the middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless to do anything about it because of double jeopardy,
Libby Parsons (Judd) is a happily married woman living an upper-crust lifestyle with her husband Nick and her son Matty However, during an overnight sailing trip, she wakes up to an empty boat, covered with her husband's blood and holding a knife. The police, putting two and two together, formally charge Libby for her husband's murder, and she is convicted in the subsequent trial.
Looking at a long prison sentence in front of her, she asks her best friend Angie to formally adopt Matty and take care of him until she is free once again.[There is that old saying that states that a women's worst enemy is sometimes her best friend,]
By chance Libby finds out that Nick is still alive and is living with her best friend.She also discovers,through another inmate, the loophole found in the law of double jeopardy. She starts a physical fitness program that will make her ready to take action once she is released. Six years later, Libby is granted a reprieve from her sentence and sent to a halfway house supervised by parole officer Travis.
Libby escapes the halfway house and begins a cross -country trek to track down her conniving husband, and more importantly, to be reunited with her son. Of course, such an action violates the conditions of her parole, which sends Travis hot on her trail.
Although there are many inconsistencies though out this film and if you can ignore and not question some of the obvious misstates, like the life insurance company still paying out the $2 million to the policy-holder's convicted murderer, and just watch this film for entertainment purposes only, then you will thoroughly enjoy this film.
This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the ?Christian Film Festival? at the Waterworks cinema in Pittsburgh. One of the main attractions was the Film ?Thr3e,? based upon the book by Ted Dekker. The movie will be released next January, so it was a real treat and privilege to see the film ahead of time, and I want to share my experience with you. The story revolves around Kevin Parson, a 28-year old seminary student. Kevin's life is thrown into turmoil when he finds himself to be the target of a notorious criminal, ?RK? ? the riddle killer, whom we come to know as ?Slater.? At the time, Kevin is working on a paper for seminary about the nature of evil, and Slater seems to be the very embodiment of what Kevin is writing about. When Kevin first encounters Slater, he is driving in his car and finds a mysterious cell phone in his passenger seat. It rings; Kevin picks up; and Slater tells Kevin that he has 3 minutes to solve the riddle ?what falls but does not break; what breaks but does not fall? or else his car will blow up. Kevin is unable to solve the puzzle, and gets out of his car just seconds before it explodes. Slater continues to give Kevin a series of riddles to solve, and if he is unable to solve them, a bomb blows up destroying someone near to Kevin ? his childhood pet, a fellow seminary student, etc. Above all, Slater wants Kevin to confess some unknown sin, and calls him a guilty hypocrite for pretending to be a good person. Kevin is helped in his struggle by a childhood sweetheart, who seems to embody good just as much as Slater embodies evil, and a female FBI agent who begins to fall for Kevin. As the film progresses, we get glimpses into Kevin's disturbing childhood and begin to guess as to what the sin might be. The end has a great surprise twist, so I won't give it away, but suffice it to say that it gives insight into human nature and the nature of evil. As far as the plot went, there were a few implausibilities that bothered me a little bit. Not to give away too much, but there were a series of phone calls that were made between Kevin's childhood sweetheart and the FBI agent, and once the surprise ending was revealed, it is hard to understand how those calls could have been made. It's a little bit of a stretch, the way it all fits together at the end, but the ending is still satisfying and insightful. As far as the cinematography goes, most of the backdrops are darkly colored - even the events that take place outside. It reminded me a little bit of the Matrix, the way the dark hues permeate the film. The film is fast-paced, moving from one riddle to another. All in all, it was a satisfying film; it got a nice round of applause at the preview. I would give it 3 out of 4 stars. Look for the film this coming January in a theater near you.
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