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.
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08/17/09
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.
Theatrical Release:14-08-2009
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
[An] effective thriller.
08/17/09
There’s a lot of blood and little logic but the actors scream nicely.
08/17/09
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
Top CriticThis 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
Top CriticA “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
Top CriticScruffy 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
It's as crazy as a crackpipe on a kayak, but the title alone proves that this is a hell of a lot smarter than it looks.
08/14/09
Before you can say ‘plot hole’, the mood shifts from boredom to disbelief as a crazy-assed climax erupts from nowhere – a memorably mental end to an otherwise exasperating trip.
08/14/09
It’s not a classic and doesn’t have all the tension it maybe should have. It’s basically distracting Hollywood thriller fluff that is enjoyable enough in the right mood.
08/14/09
The film plays pretty skilfully with audience expectations, the scenery is lovely, and the performances are above average for this sort of B-movie nonsense.
08/14/09
The scenery is fabulous, the script less so, the final action sequences a headlong plunge into hokum and bathos.
08/14/09
Not perfect, by any means, but a top night out
08/14/09
Well-acted by an attractive cast, A Perfect Getaway is far from perfect but it knows its limitations and serves up a thrill ride laced with humour and guaranteed to get the heart racing.
08/14/09
Enjoyably twisty, impressively directed thriller with great performances, a sharply written script and a pleasingly bonkers finale.
08/14/09
Although the big reveal flops, what follows is a lot better - the film switches into a punchy chase flick, complete with swearing, gunfire and wince-inducing hand-stabbings to spare.
08/14/09
A cunning, sideways-sneaking genre piece with both the fancy to surprise audiences and the adroit filmmaking to do so
09/04/09
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