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Timothy Olyphant x Kiele Sanchez have the American Spirit in A Perfect Getaway!

The Film starts with a couple, Cliff and Cydney Anderson, honeymooning on the Hawaiian Islands.  While taking in the scenery of the great outdoors during an 11-mile nature trek across one of the islands, they come across a group of girls who have just learned that there have been some murders on the islands and that the killers have yet to be caught.  Fearing that it might be the abrasive couple that they didn’t give a ride to and is now on the same hike that they are on, they decide to continue on with another couple, Nick and Gina.  However, the idea of “safety in numbers” starts to seem fallible as paranoia sets in and everyone starts to become suspicious of everyone else, changing the hike into a game of “everyone’s a suspect.” (more…)

It starts off like ‘Deliverance’ in Hawaii, but it’s A Perfect Getaway

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It starts off like Deliverance in Hawaii, but writer-director David Twohy’s A Perfect Getaway soon develops into an enjoyably off-kilter suspense thriller that has considerable fun toying with genre conventions and audience expectations. While the plot twists will present some marketing challenges, word of mouth – and the casting of Milla Jovovich in one of the four lead roles – could make this Relativity Media production a solid performer for independent distributors worldwide.

Relativity’s Rogue Pictures opens the R-rated thriller wide in the US this weekend (August 7). Competing releases with built-in appeal – the female-skewing Julie & Julia and actioner G I Joe – are likely to grab most of the weekend’s available moviegoers so Rogue will have to hope that its entry has some staying power.

Independents outside the US which have acquired rights from QED International may be able to find easier slots in which to launch the film. And they should be able to make more of the presence of Jovovich, whose three Resident Evil movies have all done better internationally than in North America. (more…)

A Perfect Getaway, £17.99, Blu-ray £24.99, Rating 4/5

Milla Jovovich

The premise of A Perfect Getaway is fairly simple – a newly-wed couple backpack through the idyllic terrain of a remote Hawaiian island, only to discover that some other honeymooners have just been murdered by a young couple.

So which of the two couples they meet on the way could be the murderers?

This thriller stars Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez, although the twist is easy to spot.

Extras include a Making Of movie, plus the director’s cut option on the Blu-ray.

Trailer Una Escapada Perfecta, Kiele Sanchez

A couple honeymooning in Hawaii, ‘A Perfect Getaway’

Kiele Sanchez

Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez

Cliff: Not that me isn’t my favorite subject, but can we talk about something else for a while?

A couple honeymooning in Hawaii hears about some murders that took place recently on another island and start to wonder if the couple they’re hiking with might be the killers.

This is not a groundbreaking movie, and it’s not going to be winning any awards, but I thought it was a pretty good time.  From the title and the initial set up, it seems like it’s going to be one of these torture movies, like Hostel maybe, but it ends up being a bit more cerebral than that.  It was fun watching the verbal and mental games the characters play with each other as they’re all suspecting each other of being the killers who have been stalking the Hawaiian islands.

All the actors do a good job, and the characters are all likable and watchable, but I think Tim Olyphant really steals the show as Nick.  He’s entertaining every time he’s on the screen, and you’re never sure if you want to like him or if you should suspect that he’s a psychopath.  Kiele Sanchez, who I only knew as Nikki from Lost (guess she likes filming things in Hawaii), is better than I expected as well, good choice by the Director… Sure, she’s easy on the eyes, but she turns in a compelling performance as well; Kiele has a real future in movies rather than television.

As for the story, it’s somewhat routine, but the fun is in guessing who the villains are.  There’s really only a few possibilities, but, of course, the filmmakers keep tossing conflicting clues at the audience to constantly steer them in different directions of thought.  While the end sort of seems like a bit of a cheat, it does seem to logically work out, but a long sequence of flashbacks is required in order to really explain everything.  That sequence was a bit too long, but not terrible.

Naturally, it degenerates into a sequence of strong violence at the end.  I guess that’s the stuff people really want to see.  Despite that by-the-numbers finale, it’s an enjoyable ride up to that point.

Don’t talk to strangers is even applicable even in Hawaii…

I loved the Violent finale, even though some of it feels like a bit of a cheat or that it doesn’t entirely make sense, I still liked this film, so I gave it a 7.7 / 10

A Perfect Getaway, UK DVD Release, 18th January 2010

Momentum Pictures have scheduled the UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of A Perfect Getaway for 18th January 2010. Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez star in this suspense-thriller about an island vacation that turns deadly. The film is directed by David Twohy. (more…)