A Perfect Getaway~~~or A Perfect Action, Thriller, Chiller Diller Killer.

A Perfect Getaway is yet another awesome movie from none other than David Twohy. Weeee. He rocks. Twohy is none other that the writer of such movies as, Waterworld, the Fugitive, and GI Jane. and he also directed some of my favorites including:
The Arrival.
Pitch Black
Chronicles of Riddick, and the upcoming wooty poo Untitled Chronicles of Riddick Sequel. Which makes my inner fan boy squeal.

A Perfect Getaway is a tricky movie to review since you don't want to do any kind of spoiler alert plot give away. That being said all I can say is Weeee. This is just one cool movie. It has a truly great cast, with Steve Zahn delivering one of his finest performances to date. It also stars the always fantastic Timothy Olyphant. He was a true highlight in the HBO series Deadwood, and has long been one of my favorite actors.

Kiele Sanchez plays his wife in the film, and she also really stands out. Her performance is award winning in my book. She was in 14 episodes of Lost. I didn't recognize her actually. Hopefully she will start to get more starring roles. Also in this movie is the always great . I first remember seeing her when she starred in one of my all time top movies The Fifth Element. More recently she has starred in all of the Resident Evil films.

Adventureland~~hold my hand I'll take you to Adventureland, or something...

Adventureland is weird. I thought oh, ok here is a nice little comedy, that happens to have Ryan Reynolds who also happens to be great at comedy. Only a funny thing happened on my way to my easy chair, as Adventureland fired up. This movie isn't really funny. In fact there are a few chuckles. Sometimes I kind of get aggravated at the packaging, and promotion of a film where they try really hard to sell it as something it's not. This film was marketed as a comedy, but really its not. Almost half way through I nearly turned the movie off. Then it hit me, wait this obviously isn't a comedy I will accept it as that, and then a funnier thing happened to me I started to really enjoy this movie. Of course it is really well written, and directed by the director of an actual funny film "Superbad". Greg Mottola. He based this movie on his life growing up, and that is exactly what this film is. A coming of age type story with a few kind of humorous bits here, and there. The cast was superb, and recently I read a lot of negative reviews about Kristen Stewart (of the Twilight movie series fame) you know the usual negative comments, she can't act. She shows no emotion, blah, blah, blah. Well I don't recall seeing her in anything before, and I thought she did a really great job in Adventureland. Her character is really adrift, and nearly sinking, in an affair with a married guy, (Ryan Reynolds) while she is working in a crappy summer job. Ryan of course was really good, even though he was playing a really, really shitty guy. Another fantastic performance came from Martin Starr a wonderfully nerdy actor who is excellent in one of my favorite Showtime series "Party Down". If you have missed Party Down then get the DVD set of season one, for 15 bucks or less it's one hell of a bargain, and don't miss season two now showing on Showtime. LOL you would think I'm getting kickbacks for all of this blatant promotion. (and I would be I bet except I have maybe two or three loyal readers of this blog, hahaha) Martin also is a "Freaks, and Geeks" alumni. That epic series is where he got his start. Which brings us to Jesse Eisenberg who plays the main character, and man does he do it with ease. He has that same low key, down low acting style of Michael Cera. If you're not careful they will blend in your mind until you aren't sure who is who. The first movie I saw Jesse in was of course a "top of my fave list" film Zombieland. He was in an award winning movie called "The Squid and the Whale" which was written, and directed by Noah Baumbach. I have Squid on my need to watch shelf of DVD's. I got it at Big Lots for only 3 samolians. Praise Jesus, and pass the bargain bins.