Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence against the five is overwhelming. The getaway car contained the fingerprints of a defendant. One of the weapons recovered from a sports bag left in a parking lot was flecked with blood from a victim. It also bore fingerprints of another defendant, whose prints were found in an apartment Darabi kept in Berlin...
...acting in the "Getaway" is not merely mediocre--it's just plain bad. This is probably because the script is so overwrought with cliches that the criminals are laughable. Benyon's badguy persona is so unconvincing that every once in a while I expected Benyon to fall out of character, turn to the audience and say "Just kidding." But this is not "Wayne's World"--the "Getaway's is not pretending to be stupid--so that never actually happens. Instead, Benyon's body just gets chucked in a well by his bodyguards, after they find him quite dead...
...Getaway" saves itself when Rudy gets a girlfriend, or rather takes a man' wife hostage and drives the husband to hang himself. The audience is reminded not to take the villains too seriously and that this is also supposed to be a lot of fun. When we understand that, we are no longer disappointed that this is not a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, thriller...
...Getaway" holds our attention because its pace gradually quickens into a whirlwind. It is a film packed with hilarity, action and fun. The best part about it is that the people who collectively embody all the insipid, distasteful, and downright repugnant personality traits that one might encounter in the course of daily life get blown away. It's very cathartic that...
...just that time of the year. The hopes of a New Year--health care reform, peaceful Crimson-Lampoon relations, "Remains of the Day" and straight A's--are melted away by muddy reality--CIA spies, stolen chairs, "The Getaway" and more B+'s (see next week's Scrutiny...