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Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: Getaway might have been enjoyable as a mindless bit of dumb, late-summer entertainment if it had been vaguely coherent. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: One can only guess why Ethan Hawke felt compelled to make a high dive from the sublimity of "Before Midnight" into the twisted rubble of "Getaway." Read more
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: It's all you can do not to laugh. Oh, go ahead. But be forewarned that there are many miles to go before we get to the end and it will feel like an eternity before any of it makes sense. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: The movie equivalent of a continuous closed loop. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: Something like a "Cannonball Run" for the YouTube Generation, with the largely incoherent action cut in a Cuisinart. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: It may be the dumbest movie released this summer. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Consonance is the key to making a chopped-up aesthetic work; without it, Getaway becomes little more than a boneheaded chase flick with unusual camera angles. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Maybe the title isn't a title, but an instruction: "Getaway," away from this movie, and fast. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: The action (all at nighttime) is messily and crudely filmed. The plot mechanics are often laughable. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: It's hard to remember another action entry that expends so much energy on frenetic blacktop choreography and attention-deficit editing with so little to show for it. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: This latter-day B movie can be rather fun in its preposterousness and bargain-basement style. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: So mechanical and derivative, not even the abducted-spouse routine can stoke the audience's rooting interests. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: Director Courtney Solomon doesn't know how to shoot action; his herky-jerk style is a constant distraction and never lets momentum build. Read more
Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: Getaway has some of the crass trappings of a charmingly crass, go-for-broke action pic like the delightful Crank. But it's too dumb - and far too cynical about what audiences want - to even know how to have fun with them. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: If movies need us to suspend disbelief, you have to supply your own clothes hangers for Getaway. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Brainless chase flick doesn't even offer guilty pleasures. Read more
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: [A] video game posing as a movie, a preposterously plotted kidnapping story starring a high-performance Mustang. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The Shelby Mustang driven by Hawke isn't just the fastest car in all of Bulgaria: It also has the ability to heal itself, like Wolverine. Read more
Frank Lovece, Newsday: Not a single moment in this automotive snuff film isn't ridiculous, and its only mystery is why the estimable Ethan Hawke agreed to star. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, NPR: The nonsense piles up nearly as fast as the smashed, flipped, T-boned and otherwise trashed cop cars chasing after Ethan Hawke's laughably named Brent Magna and his sidekick, "The Kid." Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: "Getaway" gets itself embroiled in all sorts of inane situations. Then director Courtney Solomon forgets to give us that basic thrill of all car-chase flicks: watching the car barrel toward its destination. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: "Getaway" is so bad that what's most surprising about it is that Nicolas Cage didn't manage to star in it. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: This nonstop chase film could make a critic feel guilty for calling other movies "empty." Read more
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: Don't be alarmed if you walk out of Getaway feeling confused. It's not you. This grainy, clustered video game of a movie makes no sense. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: For 89 minutes that feel like 89 hours, cars speed out of control and crash doing only PG-13 damage. The damage to your brain while watching it is incalculable. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: You've probably seen this movie before, watching a child play with his toy Hot Wheels cars after eating multiple bowls of sugary breakfast cereal. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It doesn't have a plot, really. It's more a first draft of an outline of a notion. Read more
Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times: After a while it all becomes mind-numbing. How many chase scenes and car crashes (they do all start to look alike) can one person take? Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: The only participant to emerge with its reputation intact--though not its paint job--is the Shelby Mustang muscle car, which also delivers the film's most nuanced and psychologically complex performance. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail: By the time the movie actually arrives at its finest moment - a nearly two-minute single shot from the Mustang's hood as it chases the villain's van through dense traffic - you've become so numb to speed and sensation that you may barely notice. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The only real benefit of Getaway is pointing out the likely winners of the next Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple. Come on down, Hawke and Gomez, you certainly deserve it. Read more
Todd Gilchrist, TheWrap: Perhaps more suitably titled "GoPro: The Movie," "Getaway" is a movie for people who think "Taken" is too complicated. Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: "Getaway" could have been an excellent two-minute film. Read more