Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

DeuceWild_77 Let me start to say, for purists, that Sam Peckinpah is one of my all time favorite directors and an inovator on staging action sequences and handling over-the-top violence to the screen and the original "The Getaway", starring the then couple Steve McQueen & Ali McGraw, remains untouchable and a cult classic of the action / crime / thriller genre. However, and even if i usually despise modern remakes (except in some cases), this Roger Donaldson's rendition of Peckinpah's cult flick is in fact a very good entry in the genre.By 1994, this Aussie director was already an established director in U.S.A. after he helm'd the political thriller "No Way Out" ('87) starring Kevin Costner in one of his first leading roles, Gene Hackman and Sean Young; the romance / drama "Cocktail" ('88) starring Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue or "White Sands" ('92), an extremely underrated crime / thriller film starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke and was chosen to fill Peckinpah's shoes directing this remake which Donaldson did with his peculiar sense of visual style, well-staged action sequences and a bunch of good actors giving life to vivid and colorful characters."The Getaway" moves frantically forward, with a great sense of pace and editing; the screenplay by Walter Hill, who also penned the original movie, based on the 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson, is incisive and straight to the point, enhancing the 1972 version to the more sophisticated 90's, but without losing its soul and stamina on the process.The casting of the then couple, Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger as the McCoy couple, provides almost the same McQueen / McGraw electric on screen chemistry and even if Baldwin wasn't on McQueen's level, let's be honest, who was ?The supporting cast is near perfection: the always sleazy and a riot to watch, James Woods (he would play almost the same character in the next year's "The Specialist" starring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone and Eric Roberts); the forever underrated character actor, David Morse; the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (credited as Philip Hoffman) in one of his first major roles; "The Straight Story" beloved old timer, Richard Farnsworth and Burton Gilliam, but Michael Madsen as the quirky & vicious, Rudy Travis and Jennifer Tilly as his submissive girlfriend, Fran Carvey, made a cool looney couple that almost stole the movie from the leads.An interesting fact is that Madsen plays his character so Mickey Rourke-ish: his manneirisms and on-screen persona; the machismo, self-confident arrogance & misogynism; the eccentric urban cowboy clothes ("Wild Orchid"); the chopper and even the hairstyle (Rourke was sporting long blonde / reddish hair back in 1993 when this movie went into production, check "The Last Outlaw") that maybe it's possible that Mickey Rourke was the first choice for the role (he already worked with the screenwriter Walter Hill in "Johnny Handsome" ('89) and two years before with Donaldson in "White Sands", which he played Gorman Lennox, a very similar character to Rudy), but after the troublesome shooting of "Nine and a Half Weeks" ('86) and Baldwin's crescent stardom against Rourke's career decline, the couple probably vetoed to his casting.In short, "The Getaway" isn't by all means a masterpiece movie, neither the original was, it was unfairly bashed by critics and nominated for of few Razzies (the same Razzies that nominated Kubrick for worst director, can you get how laughable this Awards are ?), but aside of all the badmouthin, it's a very entertaining, sexy, steamy & stylish flick that can put the nowadays action / crime / thrillers to shame.I give it an 8, because it's a remake, but it's worthy of a 8.5 !!

FlashCallahan Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partner flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner for a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.....It's one of those films that never needed to be remade, but at the time, I'm guessing Basinger And Baldwin were the biggest couple in Hollywood, so why not do it again? The Marrying Man made a bundle, as did Love Affair. Oh hang on...But the point of the film is to entertain, and it does, as its one of the best looking action movies of 1994, and for once it treats the audience as an adult and is suitable as an action movie or couples, which is really rare.Baldwin is on the right side of tubby, but he over broods and it really gets to you after a while. Basinger does what. She normally does and smolders like a forties movie star.The rest of the cast are just there for the pay check. Woods does his bad guy who is a little prolific role, and is just there to ignite the passion between the two leads characters, and Madsen features in a really gloomy depressing subplot involving Jennifer Tilly, and its pretty bizarre.The action is good and its edited with a lot of respect, it just feels a little strange, despite the fact its enjoyable and fun, it feels too hasty and rushed.A lot more could have been done.But the one saving grace is at least they never remade it with Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.

moonspinner55 Back when Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were a mercurial, hot-tempered, high-powered Hollywood couple they filmed this (nearly) scene-for-scene remake of the 1972 Steve McQueen-Ali MacGraw action-thriller about a fugitive twosome. It almost worked the first time because McQueen was such a vital presence on the screen--even stone silent and weary, you could sense his clock ticking, his cagey magnetism. Baldwin is not in Steve McQueen's league; although he has his charms, and is arguably a more versatile actor than McQueen, this material isn't the proper showcase for Baldwin's attributes. Basinger does well and certainly looks good, but James Woods is artificially hammy in a silly mob-magnet role. A sub-plot involving another couple taken hostage by Baldwin's ex-partner was unbearable in the '72 film and plays even worse here. As for the action scenes, they're pretty old hat, which causes one to wonder: why even remake the original? ** from ****

NewEnglandPat Picture is a good remake of the Steve McQueen classic and has plenty of good action scenes, chases and double-crosses. Master thief Alec Baldwin and comely wife Kim Basinger are the main focus of the plot as they blast their way out of trouble in one scene after another. The two desperadoes spend most of the film on the run, resulting in the usual car chases and shoot-outs and serial-style close calls. Perhaps the film's high point is an exciting shoot-out in a hotel in a border town with a vengeful ex-partner. The movie is a rugged, macho film in which distrust is the watchword among the principals. James Woods is very good in an especially sinister role as a crime boss and Michael Madsen is also good as former pal who's out to even up an old score. Baldwin and Basinger somehow don't really click together here but do well enough to make the movie worth watching.