タイムリミットは30日――、IQ200の脱出計画。 兄を助けたい・・・。すべてを捨てて弟は飛びこんだ！マイケル･スコフィールドはボストンに住む優秀な建築技師であったが、兄リンカーン･バロウズが副大統領実弟殺人の罪で死刑を言い渡されたことにより人生が180度変わる。マイケルは独自の調査で兄が政府の陰謀に巻き込まれたことを突き止めるが、刑執行までにはもう時間がなく合法的な手順では間に合わないことを確信すると、あろうことか自ら銀行強盗を犯し兄と同じフォックスリバー重警備刑務所に入ったのであった。マイケルは以前このプリズンの改修工事に携わっており、設計図などすべてのデータを把握していた。その情報を体全身にタトゥーとして刻み込み、死刑執行の前に兄ともども脱獄しようというのだ。タイムリミットは残り60日。孤立無援の刑務所に自ら飛び込んだマイケルは、その天才的な頭脳を駆使し脱獄計画を決行。果たして計画は成功するのか！？陰謀の黒幕の手から逃げ切ることはできるのか！？ウェントワース・ミラー主演で贈るタイムリミット・サスペンス。
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**Menage a Quatre** You may like _Closer_ because of its flawed characters and their doomed relationships. I like it because it's square. The assorted combinations of love and friendship, scorn and resentment, among two males and two females are literally geometrical. Typically, the dependable love triangle pits three characters together, often a heterosexual convention establishing a male lead zig-zagging between two females, or a female lead choosing between two male suitors. What if we include an extra character? How many triangles can be made with four individuals? Four! And _Closer_ expertly covers them all. Next time you see it, draw out a square with each character occupying a corner. Then connect each of the couplings and triangles as they occur, beginning with Julia-Jude-Natalie. Jude falls for Natalie, introduces her to Julia who gets intimate with her camera. The Jude-Clive-Julia triangle is a clever one. Clive is introduced when Jude seduces him online pretending to be Julia who he meets at the aquarium. Often when a movie script or stage play adheres to a strict formula, it turns out flat and predictable. Not _Closer_. Applying a quadrangular network forces each character to cover all the bases, tagging up every way possible, pushing each juncture to the limit.
Writer "Dan" (Jude Law) likes to spend his evenings, when not with his American girlfriend "Alice" (Natalie Portman), teasing other blokes on sex-chat sites. One night he sets up doctor "Larry" (Clive Owen) with a promise to meet at the aquarium with "Anna". The horned up physician duly turns up, only to discover that meantime "Dan" has vengefully despatched the real "Anna" (Julia Roberts) - his part time lover/photographer, to unknowingly meet him instead. Embarrassed looks, sighs and "Larry" feels like a prat but, maybe the outwardly rather aloof "Anna" is interested? What now ensues is all a bit entertainingly far-fetched as an unwitting ménage-à-quatre emerges, becoming increasingly more intimate, then loving, then manipulatively toxic. Are any of these people destined to find happiness with any of the others. Quite frankly, do they deserve it and do we care? I've always found Owen as wooden as a washboard, but here - especially sharing the screen with an on-form Portman, he actually seems to be able to act (a little). His character, I found, comfortably the most odious of the four. Portman is the star of the show, though. Her portrayal of the needy sex kitten vacillates from provocative to desperate with a compelling ease. There's frequently some vitriol in the writing and the juggled storylines well paced as this story of unlikeable people moves along quickly. I think this might work well on stage, it has a characterful intensity to it, but on screen it's well worth a watch - even if it's all a pretty grim appraisal of human behaviour.
"_What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world._" Unpleasant people: The movie! I couldn't believe I hadn't seen this yet and now that I have I have 2 thoughts. First thought is that these 4 really did acted their parts well in this and second... I felt nothing for them by the end.
