Film Review: 3 Dias
Monday, 6th April 2009
3 Dias (or its English title of Before the Fall,) has a simple theme: many years ago a killer was targeting the children of a small Spanish town but was stopped and jailed with the help of a local boy.
After serving 30 years of his sentence he escapes from prison just around the same time a mysterious man turns up looking for the family. Is he really a long lost friend? The only person who can say for sure, the now grown-up local boy, is out of town and his younger brother doesn’t remember what the killer looked like.
So far so good, but at the very beginning of the film the UN announces that an asteroid many times bigger than the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs is on a collision course with the earth and all attempts to stop it have failed. Chance of any life after the final impact are nil.
3 Dias is a film of two halves. The first part builds up a tense picture of how people react to impeding disaster. The director uses some fantastic imagery to create a suffocating atmosphere of panic and paranoia in this small Spanish town. The second part has quite a different feel and starts to turn a little into a run of the mill action film albeit in the Spanish countryside. Although this switching of themes does feel a little confusing, I’d still definitely recommend this film if you want to see a disaster film with a difference.
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