Getaway Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this movie but since it was starring Ethan Hawke, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, the damned thing turned out to really weak, in fact, it was probably the worse movie I have seen so far starring Hawke. Seriously, it’s the kind of movie during which they did blow up some power plant in some rather convoluted scene and, yet, afterwards, the lights were still on everywhere in this city. To make things worse, it was apparently not at all needed for them to be onsite since it could have disabled remotely. Of course, I understand that it was supposed to be a non-stop action flick and I did like the idea of a guy doing some tasks as if he was in some real version of ‘Grand Theft Auto’. However, the first mistake they made was to force the main character to go through all these tasks against his will which is such a lame approach. Even more problematic was that the action scenes (which did represent 99% of the running time) were just poorly put together. Above all, the rapid-fire editing was just so awful and made these scenes borderline incomprehensible. Seriously, there were as much as or maybe even more than 10 cuts within 30 seconds which was pretty much headache-inducing. Concerning Ethan Hawke, it is pretty obvious that he didn’t care much about the damned thing and got involved because he could do some cool stunts with some very cool car. Concerning Selena Gomez whose character was dropped in this tale completely randomly, I wonder what could have been the appeal for her. Maybe she should get another agent? Anyway, to conclude, the damned thing was a big waste of time and you should probably avoid it.