A Perfect Getaway, Starring: Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth, Marley Shelton

A Perfect Getaway, Starring: Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth, Marley Shelton Struggling Hollywood screenwriter Cliff (Zahn) and his pretty wife Cydney (Jovovich) arrive on Hawaii for their honeymoon and encounter the menacing Kale (Hemsworth) and his girlfriend Cleo (Shelton). Further down the road, Cliff and Cydney meet picture perfect lovebirds Nick (Olyphant) and Gina (Sanchez), who seem too good to be true.

The tropical idyll is rocked by news of brutal murders and a police hunt for a man and a woman, believed to have perpetrated the heinous crimes.

Cliff and Cydney fear the killers are one of the couples they have encountered along the way. As the newlyweds venture deeper into the jungle, unable to get a signal on their mobile phones, paranoia and fear gradually take hold.

A Perfect Getaway doesn’t quite live up to its title but this is a polished genre piece that keeps us guessing until the final act when all of the pent-up tension explodes with an action-packed finale and the spilling of copious blood.

When David Twohy’s grand design is revealed, we’re forced to admit that we’ve been hoodwinked.

A Perfect Getaway, Theatrical/Unrated Director’s Cut

A Perfect Getaway

We watched the director’s cut of A Perfect Getaway so I can’t speak to the theatrical version or whether it was different. But on the directors cut we say Yay-hoo-boo! We enjoyed this movie far more than expected by the ho-hum “honeymooners” trailer. Timothy Olyphant was excellent and we were cheering for him and his girlfriend by the end. This movie had subtlety and action and you really will enjoy the second half more than the first. The first half of the film was a lot of storyline building and character development and some things just don’t make sense in hindsight, but it was a really good weekend flick! (more…)

Kiele Sanchez, Milla Jovovich, Nude on Surfboard

Kiele Sanchez, Milla Jovovich, Nude on Surfboard

Kiele Sanchez taking a Leap of Faith, The Perfect Getaway

Kiele Sanchez

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Kiele Sanchez plays a woman who can handle herself in the outdoors in ‘A Perfect Getaway’ directed by “David ‘Da’ Kine Boners’ Twohy.” Kiele is looking absolutely gorgeous – and nothing like the outdoorsy character she plays in the film – Look for Ms. Sanchez soon in Sony Pictures, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days…we are looking forward for the pure hot talent of Kiele Sanchez.

Interview with Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich Interview

Milla Jovovich is in Los Angeles to promote her latest movie, A Perfect Getaway, in which she and Steve Zahn play a couple honeymooning in Hawaii who are terrorized by someone targeting newlyweds. It’s sort of a Scream for honeymooners, and nothing to write home about. Jovovich says all the right things – about how great it was to work with Zahn, how nice is was to be able to reveal a different side of herself onscreen, etc – but seems a little bored. When I ask her about her daughter, however, she perks right up.

“There’s no mystery to who I am any more,” she says. “You know, you go through your whole life looking for an identity and then you become a mother and you’re like: ‘Oh … I’m a mom.’ So no matter what, that’s what I am. If everything else fades, I’m, still a mom. The acting, the modeling, the career – I’d give it all up tomorrow for her. Everything else is secondary, which makes it all the more enjoyable, because it’s not like the be-all-and-end-all, its more like: oh, cool. A movie in Puerto Rico? That sounds fun. Get me out of the house for a little bit. Maybe I can go to New York for a few days and get some sleep …” You’ve been using your promotional tour to catch up on sleep? “It’s the only time I don’t get woken up with ‘mama!’ all the time. I mean you can try ignoring it, but it’s just impossible.” (more…)

A Perfect Getaway, Kiele Sanchez, Unrated Director’s Cut, Blu-ray

A Perfect Getaway, Kiele Sanchez, Unrated Director's Cut - Blu-ray

Kiele Sanchez

A Perfect Getaway Movie Review.

When you include the word “perfect” in your movie’s title, you leave yourself a rather easy target for cunning wordsmiths should the film not at least live up to the expectations of the genre. Double entendre aside, A Perfect Getaway does fulfill the suspense promised by the trailer and even throws in a little nastily creative violence, but also sadly offers far too many twists and turns and the much-dreaded flashback – letting the audience know they couldn’t have figured it out themselves. It becomes quite obvious early on that things are not what they seem, so attempting to guess the outcome replaces the tension; and oddly intentional screenwriting references spoil several surprises. By the end you should be able to decipher American Jedi from angry hitchhikers, but will you care? It’s a credit to David Twohy’s directing that you probably will, but the only real getaway is the climax when it perfectly escapes from the credibility of the plot. (more…)