Getaway

Name: Getaway
Genre: Action, Crime
Released: August 30, 2013
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 22
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Jon Voight, Paul Freeman, Selena Gomez

2013

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 30, 2013 | PG-13

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Jon Voight, Paul Freeman, Selena Gomez

Summary: Brent Magna must get behind the wheel and follow the orders of a mysterious man to save his kidnapped wife.

Director: Courtney Solomon

Genre(s): Action, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 90 min

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Lawrence Toppman

Aug 29, 2013

Gomez is a nonstarter as an actor, alternating dully between petulance and indifference. Hawke compensates with a vivid, ferocious performance that doesn’t go over the top. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Aug 28, 2013

For 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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 30, 2013

The car chase thriller Getaway has a wild premise and few good moments, and if there were an Oscar for wrecking police cars, it would absolutely win. Read full review

R. Kurt Osenlund

Aug 29, 2013

Though always speeding forward in some gear of ridiculousness, the film is a lot more fun when it's completely nonsensical, before its baddie's motives and harebrained plot are funnel-fed to the viewer. Read full review

Peter Hartlaub

Aug 29, 2013

You've probably seen this movie before, watching a child play with his toy Hot Wheels cars after eating multiple bowls of sugary breakfast cereal. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Aug 31, 2013

The smash-and-crash chase scenes are numbingly dull. Read full review

The Playlist Drew Taylor

Aug 28, 2013

It's understandable that larger scale movies will want to spawn sequels, but this is about two degrees away from being a movie that premieres on Cinemax on a Friday night, sandwiched between two soft core porn movies with funny titles. Getaway is stuck in neutral. And that's where it'll stay. Read full review

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Clubsocial

May 4, 2015

Love this movie...don't know why everyone is hating on Selena, she was great. Maybe it was a little hard but really? She's only 21, cut her… lllllllll

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Rosaria88

Jun 15, 2015

Foxes é maravilhosa. Eu amo tudo o que ela faz, tudo bem feito, impecável. Coisa de artista de verdade, é uma pena ver que não tem o reconhecimento merecido.

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TheQuietGamer

Mar 5, 2014

It's no "Fast & Furious," but it's still a pretty fun movie. The car chases are pretty well done and the plot wasn't half-bad. Ethan Hawke is what really makes the movie enjoyable. Selena Gomez's performance wasn't excellent by any means, but it wasn't as bad as most lead on. It's clear byIt's no "Fast & Furious," but it's still a pretty fun movie. The car chases are pretty well done and the plot wasn't half-bad. Ethan Hawke is what really makes the movie enjoyable. Selena Gomez's performance wasn't excellent by any means, but it wasn't as bad as most lead on. It's clear by the amount of cursing she is doing in this film that she is trying to distance herself from her Disney reputation like so many before her, but overall she's not that bad.

I do have a problem with how the camera will constantly switch directions during the car chases, and one segment near the end where you see the chase happening in first person for an overly long period of time is unintentionally goofy and funny. I have to say as a whole I enjoyed the movie. It's got just enough action and humor to be entertaining, even if it is lacking originality and sometimes intelligence. I found it to be a pretty good movie that's fun if you know what to expect.… Expand

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MarkMusic

Oct 21, 2013

Damn was expecting more. I gave it one star for Selena Gomez (I know she's a good actress), Ethan Hawk (I know he's a good actor), and 1 star (for tricking us into believing this would be a bad-ass movie with the trailers and previews).

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DCEdmonds

Nov 13, 2014

"Getaway" 10 Scale Rating: 3.0 (Awful) ...

The Good: Ethan Hawke and Jon Voight (in a voice only role) did they best they could with an awful script. They were rare, but there were a couple of decent chase scenes. The Bad: Silly beyond belief. The story is complete nonsense and the"Getaway" 10 Scale Rating: 3.0 (Awful) ...

The Good: Ethan Hawke and Jon Voight (in a voice only role) did they best they could with an awful script. They were rare, but there were a couple of decent chase scenes.

The Bad: Silly beyond belief. The story is complete nonsense and the ending is terrible. Selena Gomez was so awful that it was distracting. Most of the chase scenes (which make up most of the film) were a blur of car parts and quick camera motions. Some of the worst dialogue you're ever going to hear occurs between Hawke and Gomez. Painful.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Glitter

Aug 31, 2013

Hawke swoops in to drag Gomez's career to new depths. The starved Disney sex kitten purrs her way through scatological expletives, as the plot races by as a fast-paced testosterone orgasm of car-crashes, by the dozens. Because literally that sentence is perhaps the entirety of this film.Hawke swoops in to drag Gomez's career to new depths. The starved Disney sex kitten purrs her way through scatological expletives, as the plot races by as a fast-paced testosterone orgasm of car-crashes, by the dozens. Because literally that sentence is perhaps the entirety of this film. Gomez failure to maintain her aggressive nature, let alone capture it and portray a mature carjacker only supports Hawke's failure in playing the pigeon to Voight's waning career.… Expand

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Weld1

Feb 3, 2016

This movie is great... if you want to torture someone as all you need to do is strap them to a chair and play it for them. Let's see, where do I begin? Idiotic plot, childish directing, moronic writing, crappy dialogue, stupid action sequences, terrible acting, and utterly annoying 1-2This movie is great... if you want to torture someone as all you need to do is strap them to a chair and play it for them. Let's see, where do I begin? Idiotic plot, childish directing, moronic writing, crappy dialogue, stupid action sequences, terrible acting, and utterly annoying 1-2 second flickering of the screen due to horrendous editing. This is the type of movie where one thinks how in the hell did this garbage get made? I would rather watch a roomful of gorillas bang on garbage cans for an hour and a half than watch this incessant nonsense.… Expand

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