The Getaway

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Scott M This is one of the best thrillers of the 70's. It sways between cool, brutal and arousing. McQueen is engrossing. Al Lettieri's character Rudi is genuinely menacing. The music by Quincy Jones add perfectly to the suspense and is as sexy as hell. It may not be as graphically violent as today's films but the underlying core of the movie is constantly threatening. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/06/24 Full Review Audience Member The two leads are dynamite, there’s thrilling car chases and explosions, and it turns into a real act of deception and jealousy 2 hours is a bit of a stretch but it’s a good ol fashioned on-the-run movie Director Sam Peckinpah makes a decent crime thriller of a couple becoming bank robbers with more baggage than the stuff they carry An above-average thriller; doesn't need to be 2 hours but McQueen and McGraw are excellent together Works as a good character examination, a good relationship study, and a good action flick in one Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review Jack S McQueen, the King of Cool, isn't particularly so in much of this over-rated action picture. Not when he's orchestrating a truly incompetent heist early on or, when he stupidly walks into a deadly situation in the hotel in the violent finale or, when he's repeatedly smacking around his wife (McGraw) in between. The film's reputation appears to rest on only two truly exciting sequences: At the mid-way point, when he's forced to reacquire his stolen money from another thief escaping on a train and then later, when he calmly blasts away a squad car with a shot gun in front of the entire town of spectators! Most of the rest of the film is merely a drawn out excuse for excessive (for the era) violence Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/21/23 Full Review Steve D I am not sure why I should pull for these people. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/02/23 Full Review Justin C Half way into this movie and have no idea what's going on. That's enough Steve Mcqueen for me. Maybe I should Getaway from this movie 😆 They got the title right. The Getaway 😆 Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/25/23 Full Review Ravenswood R Kind of a mess. Very long, never seems to want to end, and when it does it's a solid So What. Very dull performances. Bad music choices by Quincy Jones, with awful dated harmonica music and misplaced funky bits that do not fit the action on screen or pin the right mood many scenes. Peckinpah apparently did not know McQueen had negotiated final cut privileges. McQueen then made changes to the final edit with the director having no say. Two cooks spoiled the soup in this case and the movie just manages to hang together. Memorable only for what it could have been. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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