Getaway Information

Getaway is an American action thriller film starring Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Jon Voight. Directed by Courtney Solomon and written by Gregg Maxwell Parker and Sean Finegan, the film is distributed by Warner Bros., the last Dark Castle Entertainment film to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures, as Universal Pictures took Dark Castle over in 2013. Though originally reported to be a remake of the 1972 film The Getaway, the film is actually an original story.

Plot

Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) must get behind the wheel of a Shelby Mustang Super Snake and follow the orders of a mysterious man (Jon Voight) to save his kidnapped wife (Rebecca Budig). He is aided in his race against time by an anonymous, computer-savvy girl known just as The Kid (Selena Gomez).

Cast

• Ethan Hawke as Brent Magna
• Selena Gomez as The Kid
• Jon Voight as The Voice
• Rebecca Budig as Leanne Magna
• Paul Freeman as The Man
• Bruce Payne as Distinguished Man

Production

The film was shot in two production parts. The first part of filming occurred in May 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Filming resumed in Atlanta, Georgia in September 2012.

Release

The film was released in the United States on August 30, 2013.

Reception

Getaway received universally negative reviews. It currently holds a 2% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 92 reviews, with the consensus: "Monotonously fast-paced to the point of exhaustion, Getaway offers a reminder of the dangers in attempting to speed past coherent editing, character development, sensible dialogue, and an interesting plot." It also has a score of 25/100 at Metacritic based on 23 reviews. IGN said "Not even the gruffly likable Ethan Hawke can make the murky, messy car chase movie Getaway worthwhile thanks to its inane script and poorly conceived action sequences" (Rating 3/10). John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "brainless chase flick that doesn't even offer guilty pleasures." Scott Foundas of Variety commented in his review that "Solomon has made something like a "Cannonball Run" for the YouTube Generation, with the largely incoherent action photographed (by cinematographer Yaron Levy) from dozens of small digital cameras mounted inside and outside the Shelby and cut in a Cuisinart."