Getaway
Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 30, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
26
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAug 29, 2013
Gomez is a nonstarter as an actor, alternating dully between petulance and indifference. Hawke compensates with a vivid, ferocious performance that doesn’t go over the top. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 31, 2013
Getaway is pretty much a 90-minute car chase. That's it. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesMary HoulihanAug 30, 2013
The racing is spectacular, especially when you consider director Courtney Solomon’s claim that no CGI was used in the crash scenes... Solomon wanted to put the audience in the middle of events and inside the car; he certainly does pull that off. Believe me, your head will spin. After a while it all becomes mind-numbing. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereAug 29, 2013
By the time the movie actually arrives at its finest moment – a nearly two-minute single shot from the Mustang’s hood as it chases the villain’s van through dense traffic – you’ve become so numb to speed and sensation that you may barely notice. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 28, 2013
For the most part, Getaway lacks tension and violence. Strobe cuts rob the stunts of any sense of motion; twisting metal, seen in half-second snippets, becomes abstracted texture. While it’s possible to appreciate this stuff on an individual level, it doesn’t quite add up to an action-movie whole. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillDec 9, 2013
You watch the resultant, wholly bloodless carnage with brain in neutral and eyes glazing over, as you would a re-run of Police, Camera, Action! at two in the morning. Read full review
40
Time OutAug 29, 2013
Getaway cares little about plot and even less about credibility (cue a pouty-mouthed Gomez spouting nuggets of wisdom about computer servers and ISPs). If you can’t even deliver blatant car-nography, what’s the point? Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 29, 2013
What Getaway needed most is enough juice to get to the finish line, narratively speaking. Because while jumping into the car is great, the fun dies fast if there’s nowhere to go. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 30, 2013
The car chase thriller Getaway has a wild premise and few good moments, and if there were an Oscar for wrecking police cars, it would absolutely win. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 29, 2013
Terrible but, in its squealing way, sporadically fun-terrible. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 29, 2013
Maybe they all took a gander at that random, ridiculous scenario and hoped that the car would be cool enough to bail them out. It isn’t. Read full review
30
NPRIan BuckwalterSep 3, 2013
This is a movie for those who watched Liam Neeson in "Taken" and thought, "Hey, this is fun, but can we do it without having to wait 15 minutes for the action to start?" Solomon has 90 minutes at his disposal, and doesn't want to waste time with setup. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 2, 2013
Getaway’s only claim to fame is that it may be the dumbest movie released this summer. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 29, 2013
Gomez plays ... well, that’s one of the problems. Her character is so underdeveloped in director Courtney Solomon’s movie that she doesn’t actually have a name. Read full review
30
The DissolveScott TobiasAug 28, 2013
It couldn’t be a simpler, more workable premise for a good B-movie, but the amount of effort put into making it fast and edgy is inversely proportional to the scant thrills it yields. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackAug 28, 2013
This is not a remake of Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway," but a new effort. The film is loaded with action and violence, although not in any logical or accessible way. Read full review
30
VarietyScott FoundasAug 28, 2013
Easily one of the dopiest major studio releases since Elie Samaha got out of the business. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 29, 2013
You've probably seen this movie before, watching a child play with his toy Hot Wheels cars after eating multiple bowls of sugary breakfast cereal. Read full review
25
USA TodayScott BowlesAug 29, 2013
A car-chase clunker that can't escape its own noxious emissions. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTom RussoAug 29, 2013
In the end, it’s hard to remember another action entry that expends so much energy on frenetic blacktop choreography and attention-deficit editing with so little to show for it. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 29, 2013
Getaway makes the Transformers movies seem like they were shot in slow motion. You see all these vehicles smashing into each other, but the movie is never thrilling. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundAug 29, 2013
Though always speeding forward in some gear of ridiculousness, the film is a lot more fun when it's completely nonsensical, before its baddie's motives and harebrained plot are funnel-fed to the viewer. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundAug 29, 2013
Though always speeding forward in some gear of ridiculousness, the film is a lot more fun when it's completely nonsensical, before its baddie's motives and harebrained plot are funnel-fed to the viewer. Read full review
21
Film.comDavid EhrlichAug 28, 2013
The film blinks too fast to maintain a coherent vision. Read full review
20
Total FilmKen McIntyreDec 9, 2013
Alas, director Courtney Solomon burns out all the cool potential, leaving us with a witless and unforgivably tame car wreck. Read full review
20
Village VoiceChuck WilsonAug 31, 2013
The smash-and-crash chase scenes are numbingly dull. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenAug 29, 2013
But unless you're a demolition-derby fetishist or a connoisseur of vehicular mayhem, none of that will buy you a thrill in this video game posing as a movie. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen HoldenAug 29, 2013
The glimmers of wit and carnival humor in the “Fast & Furious” franchise are nowhere to be found in Getaway. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 28, 2013
Getaway seems built for non-English speaking territories in which dialogue is as disposable as Bulgarian police cars. If only those audiences were as dumb as the action itself. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzAug 30, 2013
You will still be astonished by how flat-out awful it is. Read full review
12
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 31, 2013
The whole movie becomes such a pileup of detritus, whether it’s cop cars or plot points, that even something as important as rationale becomes an afterthought. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithAug 29, 2013
Getaway is so bad that what’s most surprising about it is that Nicolas Cage didn’t manage to star in it. But one man can only do so many low-rent projects a year. Read full review
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Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 30, 2013
When Macbeth said, "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing," he must have had visions about Courtney Solomon's Getaway, a car chase thriller with zero thrills and a stench that all the perfumes of Arabia couldn't erase. Read full review
0
The PlaylistDrew TaylorAug 28, 2013
It's understandable that larger scale movies will want to spawn sequels, but this is about two degrees away from being a movie that premieres on Cinemax on a Friday night, sandwiched between two soft core porn movies with funny titles. Getaway is stuck in neutral. And that's where it'll stay. Read full review
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