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A Perfect Getaway (2009)

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Reviews Counted:118

Fresh:69

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: 2 hrs

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... 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 wild, secluded trails, they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back.

Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with two other couples, and things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. Far from civilization or rescue, everyone begins to look like a threat and nobody knows whom to trust. Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins… --© Universal [More]

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth, Marley Shelton, Steve Zahn

Director: David Twohy

Director: David Twohy
Screenwriter: David Twohy
Producer: Ryan Kavanaugh, Mark Canton, Tucker Tooley, Robbie Brener
Studio: Universal Pictures

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A big-reveal thriller with surprises that really do surprise -- and are worth waiting for through an audaciously long buildup.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/18/09
Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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A slight film, slight in its surprises and in its suspense, and yet not totally devoid of either.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
12/17/09
William Goss
William Goss
Cinematical

A cunning, sideways-sneaking genre piece with both the fancy to surprise audiences and the adroit filmmaking to do so

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
09/04/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/23/09
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

Writer-director David Twohy (Pitch Black) serves up mechanical thrills culminating in a bogus twist ending

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/20/09
Cliff Doerksen
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment 1 Comment
08/17/09
Edward Porter
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)

[An] effective thriller.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
08/17/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

There’s a lot of blood and little logic but the actors scream nicely.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment 2 Comments
08/17/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

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.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment 2 Comments
08/16/09
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

I changed my mind about this movie three times.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 2 Comments
08/16/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

A structurally solid B-movie, marked by smart casting and carefully modulated performances, that delivers high on the popcorn-munching entertainment scale.

Full Review Source: Shared Darkness | comment Comment
08/14/09
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Shared Darkness

A Perfect Getaway is a little better -- well, a little stranger -- than most of the disposables this summer.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/14/09
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

Trash with a whiplash.

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment 2 Comments
08/14/09
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

The home video sets up A Perfect Getaway's frank understanding of itself as formula.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/14/09
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Modest but twisty B-thriller is elevated by nice character touches, witty writing and its tropical setting.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
08/14/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

David Twohy’s taut, palm-sweating thriller has two things going for it: it keeps you guessing and it doesn’t insult your intelligence.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
08/14/09
Nigel Floyd
Nigel Floyd
Time Out

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.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
08/14/09
Ali Catterall
Ali Catterall
Film4

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.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
08/14/09
Toby Young
Toby Young
Times [UK]
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A flawed but entertaining thriller.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
08/14/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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A 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.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
08/14/09
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph
 
 
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