During the energetic and cinematographically engaging opening scenes you wonder how Milla Jovovich could possibly be cast in a demure role of a newlywed floozy. Then you wonder if a couple of rugged beach bums is too obvious a choice for bad guys, and then you continue wondering through the pivotal eye-opening scene, and then some, because even when everything is in the open, the outcome of the game is still excitingly uncertain. While the plot revolves around a serial killer and zooms in on a Manson-family type hysterical lover of his, the film does not strive to employ any motivational psychology, and it’s a good thing. After all, real people’s everyday decisions often leave onlookers wondering how he or she could do something so obviously hurtful for him/ herself, so why should any given movie character behave in a more logical way? A Perfect Getaway directed by David Twohy is an actors’ movie, and it gives the stars, Jovovich and Steve Zahn endless opportunities to play their characters’ every shiny facet, supported by another couple of engaging characters, played by Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez. The film has two other unbeatable attractions – a tense plot, and an unbeatable location in Hawaiian wilderness. (Let’s just hope tourist industry won’t suffer much from those serial-killers-on-a-remote-trail implications). Although serial killings account to less then 2% of all murders, even encyclopedia Britannica states that “films about serial killers became reliable box-office draws and ranged from the critically acclaimed to the more formulaic.” A Perfect Getaway might turn out to be the latter rather than the former, but it kept the opening show audience pretty much engaged, and rightfully so. In the SF Bay Area theatres now. Image: Rogue Pictures. Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich star in David Twohy’s A Perfect Getaway.
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During the energetic and cinematographically engaging opening scenes you wonder how Milla Jovovich could possibly be cast in a demure role of a newlywed floozy. Then you wonder if a couple of rugged beach bums is too obvious a choice for bad guys, and then you continue wondering through the pivotal eye-opening scene, and then some, because even when everything is in the open, the outcome of the game is still excitingly uncertain. While the plot revolves around a serial killer and zooms in on a Manson-family type hysterical lover of his, the film does not strive to employ any motivational psychology, and it’s a good thing. After all, real people’s everyday decisions often leave onlookers wondering how he or she could do something so obviously hurtful for him/ herself, so why should any given movie character behave in a more logical way? A Perfect Getaway directed by David Twohy is an actors’ movie, and it gives the stars, Jovovich and Steve Zahn endless opportunities to play their characters’ every shiny facet, supported by another couple of engaging characters, played by Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez. The film has two other unbeatable attractions – a tense plot, and an unbeatable location in Hawaiian wilderness. (Let’s just hope tourist industry won’t suffer much from those serial-killers-on-a-remote-trail implications). Although serial killings account to less then 2% of all murders, even encyclopedia Britannica states that “films about serial killers became reliable box-office draws and ranged from the critically acclaimed to the more formulaic.” A Perfect Getaway might turn out to be the latter rather than the former, but it kept the opening show audience pretty much engaged, and rightfully so. In the SF Bay Area theatres now. Image: Rogue Pictures. Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich star in David Twohy’s A Perfect Getaway.
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