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.

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.

This movie has a lot of things going for it. Ed Harris is of course phenomenal, but the rest of the actors do a great job keeping pace with his skill level. The soundtrack is beautiful. The script, while minimal, really plays with genre and sense of reality in a very bold way. I read an Ebert's review that all of the boat scenes were done on an actual boat, showcasing some serious skill and discipline from the crew. Even the end credits are beautiful, sparkling hand-drawn portraits.

The film does seem to bite off more than it can chew with such a collection of talent; there are jarring tonal issues between different moments in the film, as the different artists are highlighted at different times. I suggest watching the movie as though trying to experience a series of vignettes, rather than as a cohesive melodrama. This also does much to enhance the reality-bending themes that the film tries to evoke.

I wanted to watch it because of Ed Harris (brilliant actor), but he has only got a very small part. That's the first real disappointment.

More bad: this movie is simply going nowhere. Supposedly a drama, but it didnt move me one bit, due to really below average acting performances by actors without any charisma.

The direction is toothless. Just bland.

Not any good then? Well, it aint terrilby bad. It's not a B-movie, they really tried to make something decent, but they utterly failed anyway...