A cunning, sideways-sneaking genre piece with both the fancy to surprise audiences and the adroit filmmaking to do so
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09/04/09
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:67
Rotten:49
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: While smarter than the average slasher film, A Perfect Getaway eventually devolves into a standard, predictable, excessively violent thriller.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $15,483,540
Synopsis: Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the... [More]
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth
Director: David Twohy
Reviews for A Perfect Getaway
It works because it's smart, knows it's smart, announces to us that it's smart - then backs off and lets the suspense and dark comedy mix.
08/23/09
Writer-director David Twohy (Pitch Black) serves up mechanical thrills culminating in a bogus twist ending
08/20/09
Twohy seems to think the eventual revelation is clever enough to be worth the price of admission by itself. It isn’t. To give better value, he should have souped up the cartoonish violence of the final scenes.
08/17/09
[An] effective thriller.
08/17/09
There’s a lot of blood and little logic but the actors scream nicely.
08/17/09
The set up is so good that it pains me to say that the last half hour falls apart. Once things are revealed, it becomes too silly.
08/16/09
I changed my mind about this movie three times.
08/16/09
A structurally solid B-movie, marked by smart casting and carefully modulated performances, that delivers high on the popcorn-munching entertainment scale.
08/14/09
A Perfect Getaway is a little better -- well, a little stranger -- than most of the disposables this summer.
08/14/09
Trash with a whiplash.
08/14/09
The home video sets up A Perfect Getaway's frank understanding of itself as formula.
08/14/09
Modest but twisty B-thriller is elevated by nice character touches, witty writing and its tropical setting.
08/14/09
David Twohy’s taut, palm-sweating thriller has two things going for it: it keeps you guessing and it doesn’t insult your intelligence.
08/14/09
This is a blast of a B Movie, featuring cool chase sequences, Peter Jackson-style gross-outs, and generally just good-old over-the-top, by-the-skin-of-the-fingernails fun. Good title pun too. And those Hawaiian vistas, of course, are sheer eye-pudding.
08/14/09
A “smart” thriller — the title itself is intended to convey that this is an ideal summer popcorn movie — but it’s a little too tricky for its own good.
08/14/09
Top CriticA flawed but entertaining thriller.
08/14/09
Top CriticA delightful example of a horror film that for the most part chugs along merrily, pressing all the modern-day fright-fest buttons, sustaining a just-so sense of gravitas.
08/14/09
Scruffy and twisty, this honeymoon-from-hell thriller kind of unravels as it goes along. But before it succumbs to the formula, the actors manage to catch our attention, so we have to see it through to what'll surely be an outrageous finale.
08/14/09
A Perfect Getaway is hardly groundbreaking, but it's a diverting slice of escapism that wallows in manipulating the viewer.
08/14/09
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