One of the things you'll read about in the reviews of A Perfect Getaway, if you're the kind of guy or gal who does that sort of thing, is that there's quite a TWIST (in caps) that happens at about 2/3 of the way into the movie. I didn't see the twist quite coming, though thinking back there were a few clever touches, some a little subtle (i.e. a simple quick cutaway to a fidgeting with a ring on a finger, if that doesn't spoil too much), but it's something that goes on a little too long in explaining, and becomes a little too ludicrous to take really seriously (the meth is the thing that made it stupid for me, or just not explicable). And yet, after this twist comes around, the movie becomes a guilty pleasure, a bad-ass action movie with lots of running around (and with crazy frame changes!) and shooting and jumping and slashing of hands and fingers... for twenty minutes.
Before this happens, we're fooled into believing this will be a thriller with characters to care about and even with their quirks or suspicions as "normal" people, and it's fairly well acted to boot. Hell, we even get one of Milla Jovovich's best performances, maybe the one where she actually has to do real *acting* as opposed to Resident Evil posing, since her films with Luc Besson. It's also lots of fun watching Timothy Olyphant as a self-proclaimed 'G-Damn American Jedi' who, according to himself and his Mississippi woman 'Can't be killed'. And it's beautifully shot in Hawaii, with the only suspicion to have here is that the crew of Lost had to battle for gorgeous locations.
A Perfect Getaway is made by a confident professional (David Twohy) and acted by some really good actors, and it doesn't entirely work from start to finish. But there's some really terrific scenes and a BANG of a third act. You don't have to rush to see it, but I dare you to change the channel when it comes to cable.
Before this happens, we're fooled into believing this will be a thriller with characters to care about and even with their quirks or suspicions as "normal" people, and it's fairly well acted to boot. Hell, we even get one of Milla Jovovich's best performances, maybe the one where she actually has to do real *acting* as opposed to Resident Evil posing, since her films with Luc Besson. It's also lots of fun watching Timothy Olyphant as a self-proclaimed 'G-Damn American Jedi' who, according to himself and his Mississippi woman 'Can't be killed'. And it's beautifully shot in Hawaii, with the only suspicion to have here is that the crew of Lost had to battle for gorgeous locations.
A Perfect Getaway is made by a confident professional (David Twohy) and acted by some really good actors, and it doesn't entirely work from start to finish. But there's some really terrific scenes and a BANG of a third act. You don't have to rush to see it, but I dare you to change the channel when it comes to cable.