The Getaway

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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 Audience Member Steve McQueen is a symbol of masculine charm in the 1960's & 1970's . This movie has many issues and was deeply troubled film in many ways-changing Directors and stars but it came together with Ali McGraw, Steve McQueen, and Director, Sam Peckinpah. The movie was edgy for its time. It is based on a novel, but there were changes to the source material. There are some long sequences that could have been tightened out, particularly between McGraw and McQueen. McGraw's performance was panned but it is not bad-I think the additional scrutiny over her romantic entanglement in this film after her husband of the time, Robert Evans, fought to get her the role didn't help. It is a cool heist film with a spectrum of villains played well by a strong supporting cast. It is a little dated, but still worth seeing and one of McQueen's best works. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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