Get Away If You Can

He had it all.. Excellent locations , good actors.. a good premise to story that most of us can relate to. And then he waste it all , almost intentionally.

What a waste of potential.

This is one of the most boring and weird movies i have ever watched. Nothing happens. Nothing. A couple on a boat has an argument, and the wife goes to an island. And thats it. Nothing more. Trust me. I used to respect Ed Harris, who has made some great movies in the past, as The Rock, Glen Garry Glen Ross and a whole bunch more. But seeing him in this utter trash, has altered my view on him. Avoid this movie, or waste time you will never ever get back.

As another review stated, don't be fooled by the msrketing, this is not a horror film. It is a relatiinship story that explores man's place in society and the world as we know it and it's effects on us.

At first, very slow. And I did begin to wonder why Ed Harris was even in the movie. It was so slow, I almost stopped watching 3/4 the way through.

However, the "surprise" ending brought all of the pieces together for me, and then I realized I had seen a good movie.

I then thought about the "slow" beginning and realized it was designed to help the viewer actually feel the "climate" of the situation, instead of relying on dialogue to do all the work. For me, it begs to ask the viewer, "would you be brave enough to face an uncertain future in order to utilize and fulfill, fully, your basic purpose and instincts?

Some of the acting was rough around the edges, giving the movie an "Indie" feel, but I think the story is well told and worth the effort.

There will no doubt be a lot of disappointed reviews of this film given it heavily markets itself as a film with Ed Harris as the star when, in fact, he has about four minutes of screen time here.

That aside what you have is an interesting idea for a film which, in the end, doesn't quite live up to its script.

Edited out of sequence, to presumably try to interject some interest or drama, it becomes a slightly confused film. For a film that has principally two leads its important they they both be competing characters. The lead actor, also the writer and director, is the main focus of the film and perhaps should have remained behind the camera as the performance given is at times uneven and not very convincing.

The film is quite well shot, though occasionally lighting changes from camera angle to camera angle, enhancing the confusion over the editing and timeline.

Clearly a film made on a limited budget and with a simple but interesting idea at its heart which it sort of fails to explore in any satisfactory way.

The title was quite a clever double meaning though combined with the 'horror movie' style poster perhaps this also is more misleading than helpful.

This movie was made by somebody who knows nothing about anything. I mean, seriously. No continuity in the story line. Terrible acting. Poor Ed Harris had to be affiliated with this movie. He's normally so great. I hope he hasn't watched it. I feel like I've witnessed someone's abstract fever dream who woke up with an idea of what their dream was about but then wrote it down two days later at a bar with their friends, after a few beers and then blackmailed some producer into making it on a dare. Then, during the production of this movie, they had the novel idea of asking the whole crew for ideas for different scenes, put them into a had, and then drew the ideas at random out of this hat and refused to organize them into any sort of sensible order. If this movie ever wins a single award, I will lose all faith in the film industry.