A Perfect Getaway (2009)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  5 / 10

  A Perfect Getaway is a nice little thriller. Nothing new, nothing fantastic but utterly watchable. What makes this better than your average low budget thriller is the amount of character development. There's a lot of it so that we can decipher who are the criminals, but of course there is a twist during the third act when it shifts to typical killer thriller...which is where the thrills are actually conceived. Acting was good, Steve Zahn was mediocre but the hero, the legend and the severely underrated Timothy Olyphant saves the film. The location was picturesque, definitely makes me want to go to Hawaii (minus the murdering of course). I think the film has too much character development and dialogue for the first two acts, then for it to shift to thriller straight away was quite disconnected. The dialogue was also self referential, talking about movie twists etc. and to me was a bit out of place. But like I said, nothing fantastic or great but a rather overlooked watchable film.

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