Release Date:- 7 August,2009 (wide)
Rating:- 7.1/10
Genre:- Action/Adventure/Thriller
Distributors:- Rogue Pictures
Director:- David Twohy
Producer:- Robert Bernacchi, Ryan Kavanaugh, Mark Canton
Writer:- David Twohy
Star Cast:-
Synopsis:-
Cliff and Cydney are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back. Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with two other couples, and things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. Far from civilization or rescue, everyone begins to look like a threat and nobody knows whom to trust. Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins…
Movie Review:- Author: Ali_Catterall from London, England
There are only two ways out of their Hawaiian honeymoon hideaway, the helicopter pilot informs newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) in A Perfect Getaway: “By foot – or by kayak.” Which certainly gives us a pointer to future developments.
Our wide-eyed backpackers (she’s perky, he’s jittery) soon encounter two other couples, including UNSTABLE redneck Kale (Chris Hemsworth) and his DAFT girlfriend Cleo (Marley Shelton), along with the only marginally less INTENSE former SPECIAL-OPS soldier, Nick (Timothy Olyphant), back from a tour of duty in IRAQ with a titanium PLATE in his head, a mean-looking KNIFE in his belt he calls “my little BUDDY”, and his picturesque Southern gal Gina (Kiele Sanchez), fond of lying around in the NUDE and who knows how to DISMEMBER a GOAT. Could either couple be the tourist-butchering PSYCHOS the hikers have been reading about in the local paper? Will speccy Cliff be forced to become the worm that TURNED? Or the MAGGOT that roared? Can ANYBODY trust anyone else? And will any of them ever manage to get a decent cellphone SIGNAL in this torrid, tropical dreamland?
Alright, that’s enough with the capitals. To quote Christian Bale, hey, it’s F*@&ING DISTRACTING. But that’s exactly what it’s like watching this film. You’d find less signposting on the LA freeway.
A Perfect Getaway is a film about storytelling; the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell one another, and the story we’re being told by writer and director David ‘Pitch Black’ Twohy. Sure, we get it. Nice one. But this is much less a movie than a screen writing seminar for beginners, pointedly and distractingly stuffed to the meta-gills with endless references to the film business, the screenwriter’s craft and its own narrative devices. With its discussions about “red herrings” (from a red herring), a fellow hill-walker’s warning that there’s “lots of twists and turns ahead!” (aw, shaddup) and film buff Nick’s suggestion to Cliff, a Hollywood screenwriter (of course), that “You gotta get the details right, otherwise it’s just a super-crap movie”, it makes you feel you’re flunking out by burying your arms in the popcorn box, rather than taking lecture notes and revising for a film studies exam after the credits.
This tiresome post-modern reflex has latterly conquered almost every corner of the mainstream, from action films to horrors and (especially) kids’ movies, and it really isn’t big or clever anymore. In fact, probably the most radical thing to do right now would be to tell a tale absolutely straight, from A-Z, without lathering on the irony or compulsively winking at the audience like Inspector Dreyfuss mid-breakdown.
Twohy doesn’t actually desist in the movie’s second half. But what he does do is suddenly play a switcheroo that, by the conventions of the form, if not the genre, might be considered faintly outrageous if you’d never previously encountered the concept of a ‘twist’ before. But it’s then that things really get going. A Perfect Getaway might start out like some regular cheesy holiday thriller (she’s called ‘Cydney’, for crissakes), albeit one entirely too pleased with its own contrivances, plus uncomfortable reasonances to a recent real-life honeymoon slaying in the Caribbean. But for that final half-hour or so, give or take a regulation catfight, the movie’s a blast, featuring cool chase sequences (Twohy wrote 1993′s ‘The Fugitive’, after all), 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. (If nothing else, this will help you decide where to book your holiday next year). But less meta, more But less meta, more *matter* next time, please.
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I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the box office has been disappointing. Your review makes it sound like it is worth seeing, particularly for a Milla Jovovich fan, but it probably won’t be in first run theaters much longer.
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