Getaway: Selena Gomez and Ethan Hawke in Merciful 2-D

When Justin Bieber's favorite actress, Selena Gomez, survives a bad B movie with more dignity than her costar, Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, the end times must be near. In Getaway, Hawke is Brent Magna, a failed racecar driver turned crook turned reformed husband who returns to his Sofia, Bulgaria apartment...

By Chuck Wilson

August 29, 2013

We’re $600 away from our summer campaign goal,
with just 3 days left!

We’re ready to deliver—but we need the resources to do it right. If Miami New Times matters to you, please take action and contribute today to help us expand our current events coverage when it’s needed most.

Contribute Now

Progress to goal

$6,000

$5,400

Audio By Carbonatix

[
          {
            "name": "GPT - Billboard - Slot Inline - Content - Labeled - No Desktop",
            "component": "22004575",
            "insertPoint": "2",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "2"
          },{
            "name": "STN Player - Float - Mobile Only ",
            "component": "22595215",
            "insertPoint": "2",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "2"
          },{
            "name": "Editor Picks",
            "component": "17482312",
            "insertPoint": "4",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "1"
          },{
            "name": "Inline Links",
            "component": "18711090",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 8,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "7",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          },{
            "name": "GPT - 2x Rectangles Desktop, Tower on Mobile - Labeled",
            "component": "23181625",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 8,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "7",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          
          },{
            "name": "Inline Links",
            "component": "18711090",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 12,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "11",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          },{
            "name": "GPT - Leaderboard to Tower - Slot Auto-select - Labeled",
            "component": "17720761",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 12,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "11",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          }
        ]

When Justin Bieber's favorite actress, Selena Gomez, survives a bad B movie with more dignity than her costar, Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, the end times must be near. In Getaway, Hawke is Brent Magna, a failed racecar driver turned crook turned reformed husband who returns to his Sofia, Bulgaria apartment to find that his wife has been kidnapped. By cell phone, a mystery man (Jon Voight) orders Magna to steal a smokin'-hot Shelby GT500 Super Snake Mustang and drive it recklessly — endangering Christmas revelers citywide — as ordered, or the wife dies. The villain has more on his mind than killing pedestrians, but because their hero is a washed-out depressive (a Hawke specialty), screenwriters Sean Finegan and Gregg Maxwell Parker provide Magna with a brainy passenger known as the Kid (Gomez, working hard) to sort things out. She's a pain, but she has kick-ass tech skills and is soon hacking the bad guy's onboard computer. What's weird is that director Courtney Solomon appears more intrigued by the Kid's computer derring-do than he is by his core assignment: to send cars flying through the air with destructive grace. The smash-and-crash chase scenes are numbingly dull. The only mercy: two dimensions, not three.

Chuck Wilson is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

A message from Editor-in-Chief Tom Finkel: This industry is changing, and we can no longer solely rely on advertising revenue to move us forward and accomplish our goals. If you value independent journalism, please consider making a contribution to support our newsroom and help us plan for the future. : This industry is changing, and we can no longer solely rely on advertising revenue to move us forward and accomplish our goals. If you value independent journalism, please consider making a contribution to support our newsroom and help us plan for the future.

Support Today