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Selena Gomez's GETAWAY May Be Worst Reviewed Movie of 2013

By: Aug. 30, 2013
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Warner Bros new film GETAWAY, starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez could be heading to the top of the worst movies of all time list, according to Rotten Tomatoes. As of late yesterday afternoon, all 55 reviews panned the film which opens today, Friday August 30.

In the film, Brent (Ethan Hawke) with help of a Kid (Selena Gomez) must get behind the wheel and follow the orders of a mysterious man (Jon Voight) to save his kidnapped wife. Directed by Courtney Solomon and Yaron Levy, the movie also stars Jon Voight.

Among the scathing reviews thus far:

"If you can't even deliver blatant car-nography, what's the point?" - Nick Schager (Time Out New York)
| "It's hard to remember another action entry that expends so much energy on frenetic blacktop choreography and attention-deficit editing with so little to show for it." - Tom Russo (Boston Globe)

"Getaway might have been enjoyable as a mindless bit of dumb, late-summer entertainment if it had been vaguely coherent." - Christy Lemire (ChristyLemire)

"[A] video game posing as a movie, a preposterously plotted kidnapping story starring a high-performance Mustang." - Sheri Linden (Los Angeles Times)

"Getaway" could have been an excellent two-minute film." - Stephanie Merry (Washington Post)

""Getaway" is so bad that what's most surprising about it is that Nicolas Cage didn't manage to star in it." - Kyle Smith (New York Post)

"As a moviegoer, I am not against car chases, but I generally like some movie wrapped around them." - Cathy Jakicic (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

"One can only guess why Ethan Hawke felt compelled to make a high dive from the sublimity of "Before Midnight" into the twisted rubble of "Getaway." - Stephen Holden (New York Times)
"A car-chase clunker that can't escape its own noxious emissions." - Scott Bowles (USA Today)

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