A Perfect Getaway - Pretty good thriller

Many people tend to associate Milla Jovovich with the 'Resident Evil' franchise and only think of her as someone who wears revealing clothes while high-kicking armies of undead nasties.  However, if you can look past her kicking zombies' heads in, here in 'A Perfect Getaway,' she proves here that she can turn in a decent performance.

`A Perfect Getaway' is one of those thrillers that is best that you don't know too much about before you watch it. It basically follows a young couple on honeymoon in Hawaii; they go there on their own, but quickly make friends with two more couples (one of which has Chris Hemsworth before he really shot to fame in the Marvel films as 'Thor' and looking almost as unrecognisable as his 'look' in 'Avengers: Endgame').  From there, they quickly fall under the opinion that one of the couples is a pair of serial killers who are on the run and it's up to us - the viewers - to also try and work out who's who before the bodyparts start mounting up.  There's little more to the plot than that, so it's not like the film covers any new ground story-wise. But that doesn't mean it's not worth a watch.

Jovovich may be the most well-known star on the cast list (at the time), but it's Steve Zahn who - in my opinion - gives the best performance.  If you're expecting loads of 'slasher-esque' inventive and gory deaths then you may well be disappointed.  The violence mainly comes in the final act and is played for realism, rather than over-the-top horror.  However, there are enough twists and turns to keep most thriller-fans happy and the fact that the film has employed the talents of a crop of decent actors (and yes, I'm including Milla in that statement) means that this is definitely head and shoulders above most other thrillers out there.

Give it a go.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that