From NetFlix:

When his wife (Elizabeth Banks) is sent to jail on murder charges she fervidly denies, college professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe) comes up with a plan to break her out by meticulously plotting the ultimate escape — despite the fact that he’s never committed a crime in his life. Writer-producer Paul Haggis (Crash) also directs this remake of the French film Pour Elle by Fred Cavayé. Liam Neeson and Brian Dennehy co-star.

An old saying is “The Devil is in the Details”, and indeed this is a film about a desperate, intelligent man calmly plotting to extract his wife from prison without her realizing what he is planning. Frankly, I had to suspend disbelief because it does not seem possible that the character John Brennan could have successfully executed his scheme. Of course I was rooting for the family to escape from the United States, justifying my cheering for the bad guy because after all the wife was supposed to be innocent. Indeed that is one of the threads of the story: did she or did she not murder that woman ? Watch carefully at the very end where the detective who originally prosecuted her is ruminating over the murder case and … but I don’t want to spoil a really exasperating and clever detail.

Russell Crowe plays Russell Crowe: “Speak softly and carry a big stick” (attributed to Theodore Rossevelt). Russell should lose some weight.

Acceptable for children. Ignore the impossibilities and just enjoy the chase!