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A Perfect Getaway

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Dir: David Twohy. Cast: Marley Shelton, Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Timothy Olyphant, Chris Hemsworth

 

Description: Cliff and his pretty wife Cydney arrive on Hawaii for their honeymoon. Heading into the lush wilderness, they encounter the menacing Kale and his girlfriend Cleo and picture perfect lovebirds Nick and Gina. The idyll is rocked by news of murders on a neighbouring island and a police hunt for a man and a woman. Cliff and Cydney fear the killers are one of the couples they have encountered along the way.

Country: US. 2009. 97mins
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A Perfect Getaway is flawed but entertaining

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  14.08.09
 
A Perfect Getaway

Thriller: One of the killers makes a threatening call

Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn play a couple on a honeymoon that goes pear-shaped in David Twohy’s thriller.

Just when they start to enjoy themselves in Hawaii, where “nothing bad ever happens”, they are faced with the news that other honeymooners at the resort have been brutally murdered.

They then meet two couples who might just be the killers. Or have we got it all wrong?

Yes, we have: Twohy ratchets up the tension by suddenly producing a back story to surprise us. There’s a lot of blood and little logic but the actors scream nicely.


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