After the heavy science fiction films The Arrival, Pitch Black, and The Chronicles of Riddick, writer & director David Twohy has decided to take it a little easy with his new suspense thriller A PERFECT GETAWAY. Although this film may look like another vacation in paradise that goes to hell, Twohy has decided to go a different route with his film. The structure for the film is very different from his usual film as it follows three couples on vacation in Hawaii who soon learn that a young couple just married were recently murdered and that the murders are still at large. What follows is a tense psychological journey as the couples interact with one another and soon think that the other is the murderers.
A PERFECT GETAWAY is anything but that. Twohy takes his time with allowing the audience to meet all three of the couples and how they interact with one another. His screenplay is very tight and walks a fine line of being a suspense thriller verses being a top notch mystery thriller. This is made even more apparent by the better then expected performances from the cast (which includes Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, and Kiele Sanchez, to name a few) whom all are playing against type adding to the mystery surrounding the film.
Twohy proves with this film that he is just at home with a suspense thriller as he is with science fiction and that his psychological ghost story Below wasn’t just a fluke.
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