
Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock as he commandeers a custom Shelby Super Snake Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner on a high-speed adventure at the command of a mysterious villain on a race against time to save the life of his kidnapped wife.... (Full plot summary below)
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Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock as he commandeers a custom Shelby Super Snake Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner on a high-speed adventure at the command of a mysterious villain on a race against time to save the life of his kidnapped wife.
Leave your thoughts about Getaway.
| Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)Greg Maki"Getaway" is hilarious. Problem: It's supposed to be a gritty, edge-of-your-seat action thriller. Whoops. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderIf you've always wanted to see Ethan Hawke bicker with a teenage girl for 90 minutes, this is your chance. |
| Willamette WeekRichard GrunertLittle more than a 90-minute chase scene, this film is targeted directly at the Fast & Furious crowd, but it has only one expensive car to smash up instead of many dozen. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfGetaway is an awful picture -- gawky, moronic, and dull. Once again, Solomon proves himself to be an abysmal director, and Hawke should probably look into new representation. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Josh TerryFor all of its vices, I can't help but think that we've brought Getaway on ourselves. It's not the car chase film we need right now, but it's probably the car chase movie we deserve. And if the finale is any indication, a sequel could be ready to go. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerDirector Courtney Solomon makes sure the pace never flags, holding our attention with complex multi-camera coverage, and Hawke does just the tiniest bit more acting than necessary for a genre piece. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowSo forgettable that better title would be "Throwaway." |
| Film School RejectsRob HunterApparently paid by the word, Gomez infuses her never-ending word bubbles with all the emotion and gravitas of a tweet declaring her disdain for pumpkin-flavored lattes. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakGetaway is a videogame-one at its best when realizing this truth. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyFor the most part, Getaway lacks tension and violence. Strobe cuts rob the stunts of any sense of motion; twisting metal, seen in half-second snippets, becomes abstracted texture. While it’s possible to appreciate this stuff on an individual level, it doesn’t quite add up to an action-movie whole. |