Friday 6 December 2013

"Getaway" (The Guardian 06/12/13)


Getaway (12A) 90 mins **

There were, undoubtedly, ways of improving Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive – but reshooting it in Bulgaria, with a 12A certificate and Selena Gomez as a carjacker probably weren’t among them. Ethan Hawke is the former race driver obliged to take satnavved directions from the nogoodnik who’s kidnapped his wife; Gomez the hacker conveniently assuming the passenger seat. Stuck for better ideas, director Courtney Solomon (Dungeons & Dragons) waves the stuntguys through to total as many Bulgarian panda cars as the budget will allow. 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. 

Getaway opens in cinemas nationwide today.

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