A perfect getaway is a decent enough film and if nothing else you can enjoy the Hawaiin scenery, but I found the twist way before I should have and upon reading other people's accounts it seems like the director should have been more discreet. I will not spoil anything of course but the basic premise is about a couple who go to a Hawaiin retreat and meet another couple with a shady temperament. Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich and Timothy Olyphant are all good actors and give fine performances, but the script is a letdown. Oh well, you will surely love the gorgeous tropical locations.

I stumbled on this 2009 movie over the weekend looking for something to watch. I normally would not have chosen a movie that looks like a cheap thriller in the line of The Ruins, but I was pleasantly surprised. This is entertaining and, well, surprising. It stars Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich, as well as Timothy Olyphant, who is one of my celebrity crushes, and the main reason that I watched it at all. It was made by David Twohy, who is best known for Pitch Black and Riddick. Not sure why so many of the users here complain about the ending - it was explained adequately in my opinion, and if it was contrived, that doesn't detract from the general entertainment value of the film. It didn't change my life, but it was a fun 2 hours.

A Perfect Getaway is living proof that a famous cast DOES NOT make a good movie.This is a really dull, lifeless movie which keeps the viewer under the illusion that at some point in time, something exciting is going to happen, but it never does. I watched about two thirds of A Perfect Getaway, and gave up because it got SO boring. I always see movies through to the end, even when I'm not particularly enjoying them, but for this one I felt obliged to make an exception. If you want almost two hours of literally nothing, go right ahead and watch this. But if you like movies in which stuff actually happens, do yourself a favour and get away, seriously.

OK. To the point : Pros: 1. Great actors, solid acting. 2. Daylight suspense in beautiful backdrop of Hawaii, without cheap loud noise shocker scenes (the were a few borderline, but most suspense was born by sold acting). Cons: 1. Just one. And it's serious. A great thriller (like Sixth Sense) keeps you perplexed until the shocking revelation, and then you are in awe at your own profound oblivious ability to miss all the cues provided you throughout the entire movie. Not so, here. If you re-watch the movie with the ending known, indeed the dialogue is "possible." But the selection of words is clearly done so as to mislead viewers, in a manner that seems artificially contrived for the sole purpose of having an "aha!" ending. The viewer is never an Omnipresent witness, but is deliberately shown only those events that would naturally mislead them. So instead of an "AHA!" ending, as many expected, they get a "WTH!" ending - which is unfortunate. The writer seems to totally misidentify the payoff for which viewers come to see a thriller movie; It's not in the twist ending that comes from nowhere, but in the revelation that the ending was right in front of you throughout the entire movie, and you missed it's cues.