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Get away from this ....
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 11/28/2017
As a young kid I was watching a stunt show at the seaside somewhere along the Belgian coast many years ago. I couldn't believe what I saw and it was a wonderful spectacle as they simply drove cars to shreds . Afterwards I received a sticker of this group and I kept it for years in a book.
In the meantime I've lost that sticker and slightly more than 30 years later , I'm at an age that I 'm not surprised that quickly anymore . "Getaway" looks like a film with such a stuntshow . A series of high-speed pursuits with many police cars flying around and heaps of metal that is wrecked .
The star in this film is the Mustang driven by Ethan Hawke and is reminiscent of " Roadrunner " . You see him all the time , and even though you do your best to get hold of him every time he gets away. It …
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0.5/4
Fifteen Minutes of Shame.
memento_mori - wrote on 09/12/2013
If there was ever a time where I didn't want to talk about a movie, it's now.
I can't enjoy stupid movies. I just can't. I wanted to like this, because it was late at night and I was out with friends, a great setting.
Getaway is what you get when you hire an autistic person to write the next Bourne series. Ethan Hawke is having a really wobbly year with the excellent Before Midnight, the poorly-received Purge and now this. This insult to cinema.
Selena Gomez is in this movie. Yeah. You'd think they would at least make her nice to look at, but no. They didn't even allow us that single luxury. She is like five teenage Jar-Jar Binkses in a fast car. She should stay out of music and she should definitely stay out of movies, because she has no idea how to pass something off as a …
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2/4
Slam Bang Action!
MovieAddict - wrote on 09/11/2013
A former race car driver Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) who has lost his nerve arrives home to find that his home has been broken into and his wife Leanne (Rebecca Budig) has been kidnapped. He gets a phone call from mysterious villain who informs him that he has to follow a specific set of rules or his wife will die. Brent is told to go to a parking garage and steal a "special" car, which turns out to be a Shelby Cobra Mustang but his plans are foiled when the 18-year-old owner and tech genius (Selena Gomez), hops in the car, holding Brent at gunpoint claiming the car is hers.
Brent is forced to take her along with him while trying to evade capture by cops. Her computer skills become useful as the two must work together and try to outwit the crazy man, holding them all captive.
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