The intimacy of A Perfect Getaway can be read as Twohy's response to his adventures in mega-budget moviemaking, as can its smartly self-reflexive references to the craft of storytelling itself.

| Aug 9, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Twohy lets his story's central guessing game play out with patient tautness.

| Original Score: B | Mar 1, 2010

A big-reveal thriller with surprises that really do surprise -- and are worth waiting for through an audaciously long buildup.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2009

Writer-director David Twohy (Pitch Black) serves up mechanical thrills culminating in a bogus twist ending

| Aug 20, 2009

Twohy seems to think the eventual revelation is clever enough to be worth the price of admission by itself. It isn't. To give better value, he should have souped up the cartoonish violence of the final scenes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2009

There's a lot of blood and little logic but the actors scream nicely.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2009

A Perfect Getaway is a little better -- well, a little stranger -- than most of the disposables this summer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

David Twohy's taut, palm-sweating thriller has two things going for it: it keeps you guessing and it doesn't insult your intelligence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A "smart" thriller - the title itself is intended to convey that this is an ideal summer popcorn movie - but it's a little too tricky for its own good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A flawed but entertaining thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A delightful example of a horror film that for the most part chugs along merrily, pressing all the modern-day fright-fest buttons, sustaining a just-so sense of gravitas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

The scenery is fabulous, the script less so, the final action sequences a headlong plunge into hokum and bathos.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Not perfect, by any means, but a top night out

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Ridiculous? Yep. Fun? Absolutely. If there's such a thing as a classy B-movie, then this is it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Although the big reveal flops, what follows is a lot better - the film switches into a punchy chase flick, complete with swearing, gunfire and wince-inducing hand-stabbings to spare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

This is a genre entry that knows exactly what it is and has a lot of fun being it. It pushes most of the right buttons, assumes its audience has a brain and doesn't telegraph its punches right from the very start.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2009

A Perfect Getaway is the rarest of film treats -- a B-movie that knows where it's going and how to get there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2009

A surprisingly effective thriller, featuring good-to-great performances and a taut, interesting screenplay with enough twists and turns to keep the audience entertained for its scant running time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2009