Stream it now A Perfect Getaway 2009

 

brilliant movie 5/5

AN IMPRESSIVE STORY I LOVED IT

I enjoyed this great phsycological slasher film for the same reason Ive always enjoyed slasher films...the buildup from the beginning to the end, its quite the thriller, great acting too..overall good movie

Timothy Olyphant carries this movie on his back... Sort of Predictable, but not all over a bore. Having a hard time rating this one. give it a 50. showed a little ass and with anything hawaii, cristal meth was involved

Excellent movie! Great story and well thought out. I like all the twists in this movie and it has you guessing until the end. Action throughout and a must see.

It is so stylish and well-acted. 'A Perfect Getaway' is a thriller that takes some time to take off but the film will keep you guessing until the end. A clever slasher flick and definitely a cut above the rest.

I like whodunit films if their made well. Every year we get these movies and mostly all of them follow the same concept and idea. David Twohy's A Perfect Getaway rises from typical slasher and thriller films if only for half of the movie.

David Twohy has had hits and misses; he was the writer for The Fugitive and directed Pitch Black as well as the atrocious The Chronicles of Riddick. His new attempt to come back to the thriller and horror genre with A Perfect Getaway starts hot but goes lukewarm quick. The movie starts with the classic formula of slasher and horror films showing us images of happiness and joy. Trying to make us adapt to the characters. That's a smart move considering now a day's gore, blood, and guts spray the screen before anything. We see home video camera showing us the marriage of Cliff Anderson (Steve Zahn) and Cydney Anderson (Milla Jovovich). They are currently in their honeymoon in Hawaii and their planning to hike a trail in one of the other islands of Hawaii.

Of course in all thriller films they meet people who are not what they seem to be. Especially in a place where you don't really know. The movie effectively portrays paranoia where you go on vacation and it implies not to trust anybody when you're traveling. They meet another couple who is as well traveling to the same place. They meet a group of people who tells them on one of the islands a couple is murdering other couples. Then the paranoia hits all of them and they start to wonder about each other. The movie has great dialogue, a great set location and it makes pretty good suspense throughout the movie.

The twist is very ingenious and the movie plays it out very well. You think, oh here we go there about to explain the impossible. The twist is explained in detail and strangely not common in slasher movies it made sense. However, it's the twist where the movie fails as well. Instead of making tension Twohy pushes his character to slash, stab, shoot and kill for the ending. The violence is effective but it quickly comes down to any regular slasher movie. A resolution solved with violence instead of tension or scares.

Other then that A Perfect Getaway is a fair comeback for David Twohy. I was rather surprise with how much I enjoyed it, considering I thought it was another typical slasher film.

MP *** 3/5

I knew they were the killers in the beginning of the movie. So not much to say.

This movie was a little different. I wouldn't say its a great movie but a little interesting to watch.

The movie looks gorgeous thanks to the pristine Hawaiian scenery. What is not as pristine is the overactive plot. This is a clever "who dunnit" thriller that isn't as clever as it thinks it is. This murder mystery sets up a premise about killers on the loose in paradise and then introduces suspect couples. Every moment and every line of dialogue is overdone with foreboding to make you think every single moment is filled with suspicious intrigue. It pretty much becomes a parody of a suspense movie thanks to writer/director David Twohy. Then a second act twist retroactively rewrites the movie's shortsighted history that doesn't make sense. Why would the characters behave as they do when nobody's around to watch them? Commitment to Method acting? It's a harebrained twist up there with Perfect Stranger where it negates everything beforehand. There's a 15-minute flashback that doesn't need to be nearly that long and it breaks up the momentum. A Perfect Getaway does elicit some thrills and interest but you may grow tired of being beaten with overactive suspicion.

Nate's Grade: C