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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:Aug 7, 2009 Wide
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
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A movie that more than tips its hat to Hitchcock. "A Perfect Getaway" clues the audience in slowly about what's going on without giving the whole thing away. I can't wait to see this movie again. Wildly entertaining!
This could be one of the most awful movies of the year. Then, it gets worse.
It's a childish kind of filmmaking that Alfred Hitchcock would call irresponsible.
Twohy is enough of a veteran to keep things moving along with a minimal degree of muss, fuss or narrative stupidity.
A Perfect Getaway is the rarest of film treats -- a B-movie that knows where it's going and how to get there.
Top CriticA surprisingly effective thriller, featuring good-to-great performances and a taut, interesting screenplay with enough twists and turns to keep the audience entertained for its scant running time.
For what it is, A Perfect Getaway is absorbing and effective, largely due to Twohy's muscular direction and more-intriguing-than-you-expect work from the actors.
Can't get away from the psycho-stalker formula, so predictability trumps creativity in the end.
It might as well have been re-titled Red Herring: The Movie.
Twohy serves up a hard-to-swallow second-act twist and an unconvincing back story, but the slightly overlong A Perfect Getaway recovers with a pulse-pounding climax.
Top CriticThe result isn't deadly dull, but it does turn what should have been a most dangerous game into a basic scenery-chewing contest.
This feels like a classic case of a B movie showing its more heavily hyped A-list competition how to get the job done with little fuss or fanfare.
A Perfect Getaway is one of those very clever whodunits that keeps you guessing for quite awhile. But on the way home, as you replay its tricks, you may feel more conned than charmed.
Top CriticTwohy correctly banks on the fact that his audience will be too busy sifting through those aforementioned "red snappers" to care about the details.
Top CriticFor a low-brow, psycho-on-the-loose-in-paradise thriller, A Perfect Getaway is surprisingly entertaining, with exactly the right elements to overcome the inevitable cliches.
A gimmicky, tricked-out tale that is all too self-aware. But the film does keep you guessing and probably guessing wrong.
Top CriticIf you're willing to have your patience tested, Twohy and his cast reward it.
Viewers know the gotcha is coming not only because they've been groomed to expect a third-act left turn in movies like this, but because the film's characters won't stop talking about it.
A Perfect Getaway is a clever, heart-pounding thriller, and a welcome return to form for the director.
While the suspense-thriller may not be a good movie, it's sort of entertaining and funny.
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