This is the most completely commercial film Peckinpah has made, and his self-parasitism gives one forebodings of emptiness... The Getaway is long and dull and has no reverberations except of other movies, mostly by Peckinpah.

| Sep 29, 2023

The action and the violence of The Getaway are supported by no particular themes whatsoever. The movie just unravels.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2005

The Getaway is a big, glossy, impersonal mechanical toy. It's like one of those devices for executive desks, with the stainless steel balls on the strings: It functions with great efficiency but doesn't accomplish anything.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004