Monday, January 18, 2010

A Perfect Getaway


It has a nice start and I really enjoyed the first hour where they set up everything and let you pick & choose who you think the killer is, but as soon as the reveal starts and they get into the conventional slasher parts it gets tiresome, boring, and predictable. The screenwriters also apparently have no respect for their audiences intelligence because they spend an agonizing amount of time in flashbacks explaining everything up until that point when it was completely obvious how they did it. They could have shaved off 15-20 minutes of the movie and it would have made for a tighter and leaner movie. The pacing might not have been as erratic. I really liked that first hour so it isn't getting a horrible score overall, but the rest of the movie sucks. Just goes to show that something can go wrong even when you had so much going for you along the way.

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