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A Perfect Getaway (2009)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 76 | Rotten: 51

While smarter than the average slasher film, A Perfect Getaway eventually devolves into a standard, predictable, excessively violent thriller.

62

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 11

While smarter than the average slasher film, A Perfect Getaway eventually devolves into a standard, predictable, excessively violent thriller.

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Movie Info

Honeymooning newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are hiking an 11-mile trail in Hawaii when they cross paths will ex-military man Nick (Timothy Olyphant), who earns their trust by helping them navigate a particularly treacherous mountain cliff. A few yards later, the trio runs into a group of girls whose parents are begging them to return home following reports that a honeymooning couple has been murdered on one of the other islands. The suspects in the killings are a young

R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

David Twohy

Dec 29, 2009

$15.5M

Universal Pictures

Cast

All Critics (127) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (51) | DVD (6)

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

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Writer-director David Twohy (Pitch Black) serves up mechanical thrills culminating in a bogus twist ending

August 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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A Perfect Getaway is a little better -- well, a little stranger -- than most of the disposables this summer.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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I just don't think there was enough drama in the first two-thirds of this movie.

August 10, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comments (4)
At the Movies
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A terrific twist, but goes wasted in a movie that really runs out of steam.

August 10, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment (1)
At the Movies
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A Perfect Getaway is the rarest of film treats -- a B-movie that knows where it's going and how to get there.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comments (3)
Globe and Mail
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Twohy's script dares and succeeds in peppering the dialogue with funny insider references to Hollywood scripts and actors.

April 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | Comment
Entertainment Insiders

Twohy lets his story's central guessing game play out with patient tautness.

March 1, 2010 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

A slight film, slight in its surprises and in its suspense, and yet not totally devoid of either.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinematical | Comment
Cinematical

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

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
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.

August 23, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

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.

August 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment (1)
Times [UK]

[An] effective thriller.

August 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

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

August 17, 2009 Full Review Source: This is London | Comments (4)
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.

August 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | Comments (5)
Sin Magazine

I changed my mind about this movie three times.

August 16, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)
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.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness | Comment
Shared Darkness

Trash with a whiplash.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | Comments (3)

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

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
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Audience Reviews for A Perfect Getaway

Somewhere early something clicked on this one and i saw the reveal very early but i kept second guessing as the movie went along. A very solid cast makes this a good movie.

August 11, 2009
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

A Perfect Gataway actually surprised. Considering the mediocre cast, the film turned out to be better than what I expected it to be. Despite the fact that it's nothing too special, A Perfect Gataway is a good film that is better than what most people think. There are better thrillers that you can see, but for what it

November 20, 2011
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

    1. Gina: He's really hard to kill.
    – Submitted by Cori J (5 months ago)
    1. Cydney: It's amazing how much people talk about themselves when their on vacation, talk to people they only just met.
    – Submitted by James W (9 months ago)
    1. Cliff: We're not really hunting goats here, are we?
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)
    1. Cliff: Nothing bad ever happens in Hawaii, right?
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)

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