Paradise has rarely looked as gorgeously ominous as it does in
A Perfect Getaway, director David Twohy's return to the small-scale thriller following the bloated would-be sci-fi epic
The Chronicles of Riddick. Anyone who has followed Twohy's career over the years knows that he's at his best when dealing with tense situations in an intimate environment, and with the story of real-life murdered honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany still in the news thanks to a surprising controversy, the plausibility of such a heinous crime lends the film an extra punch of morbid realism. But filmmakers will be filmmakers, and while Twohy nearly deep-sixes the whole end...
Released:
2009
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins