LastingAware
The greatest movie ever!
2hotFeature
one of my absolute favorites!
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
rafaelacavlina
I don't understand why this movie has such a low rating. I've seen it a couple of times because I really like it. I think it's absolutely worth watching if you like this genre.
Myriam Nys
Yet another addition to the canon. If Hollywood is to be believed, then Central and Eastern Europe consists of 1) smoking hot women who are intent on marrying, or are married to, American males, 2) smoking hot women who are prostitutes, 3) gangsters, 4) little girls with flaxen braids who like to prepare homecooked bread and 5) people heavily invested in Christmas fairs or shopping.Representatives of all categories can be found within the borders of Central and Eastern Europe, but it's pretty lazy (and pretty racist) to suggest that they make up the whole of the population. Unpleasant assertions about inoffensive citizens aside : this is a remarkably undercooked VROAR VROAR VROOM vroom crash crash plot holes large enough to drive an elephant through CRASH bang bang VRRRROAR. Vroom wish fulfilment ROAR ROOR RRRRomm vroom boing boingggg for adolescent males who like primary colors and explosions rhha rhaaaa rhhhaaaa a solid wall of noise VROOM vromm VROOM VROOM. It's an ode to reckless driving, road rage and speed crassssssssh crasssh crrrash CRASH, thinly disguised as ROAR RRROAR roar car crashes galore VROOM a lot of waste VROOM BOING BOINGGGG vroom vroom vroommm textbook conspicious consumption. VRRROOM vroom vroom VROAR ding ding dingeling BADOING BADOING to the point where you can't hear yourself think. That's precisely why they do it.
jaibarrett-75757
Shaky camera so you cant see the action, terrible at the beginning. Then John Voight oh no why use him, terrible choice. Keep flicking to short playbacks of wife at beginning, the director is rubbish. The storyline too predictable. The fact they had the car 2 days since it was stolen and they gave it armour, really? Bullet proof armour how unbelievable. Motorbikes chasing car out of car park. Just brake and everyone falls off. The Shelby had terrible acceleration or made to look that way, as most other cars keeping up. Really so rubbish that I even walked my dog in the middle of it. I really feel the director doesn't know what he's doing because the movie is terrible. If you watch it please remember that I said don't.
Prismark10
Getaway is a bottle film but with extensive location shooting in Bulgaria. Ethan Hawke plays Brent Magna a former racing driver now living in Bulgaria whose wife gets kidnapped, he receives a phone call and is told that he must follow instructions and that includes stealing a Shelby Mustang, evading the police and then dealing with an American teenage brat (Selena Gomez) who he just happens to come across in Sofia.The car is rigged with cameras and microphones so the controller (Jon Voight) can see what Magna is up to and can constantly threaten his wife's well being as well as give him further instructions. As with these type of films Magna is confused as he wants his wife back and carries out what is required of him. This includes smashing up parts of Sofia, endangering innocent lives and the lives of policemen in high speed chases.Its Gomez when she is not irritating who has the brains to figure out what the bad guys are up to and persuades Magna to take control of his predicament.Fast and Furious this is not. Its shot in a cheap style, we have the same shots used repetitively such as Hawke slamming the brake and the accelerator. The script is lame and illogical and it really has straight to DVD written all over it despite featuring a best actor Oscar winner and a triple Oscar nominee.
