Get Away If You Can

One hopes the entire process made for great couples therapy, because watching it certainly doesn’t.

The movie has an aura of indie navel-gazing that kept me at arm’s length.

The film isn’t a fantasy. Everything that takes place in it is plausible and doable, and therefore it is realistically fantastical. It will force you to judge how far you would go and how much you would really give up if afforded the chance.

As for the final product Get Away If You Can is not a massive failure, but just missing the marks in many ways, needing the ego removed from the story.

The ambiguity in this glacially-paced but atmospheric and at times striking little film doesn’t so much tantalize as frustrate – only because the filmmaker duo approaches something so much deeper, wiser, and subtler.

Once you get used to what the movie actually is, it’s a low-key indie effort with a perfect, though probably metaphorical, ending.

Conflicts arise and reach resolution for no particular reason, and in place of rising tension is instead mind-numbing tedium that makes even this slim 78-minute feature seem like any endless journey to nowhere.

Ed Harris remains such an instantly magnetic presence that even when he is playing such a stone-cold, steak-in-one-bite-eating racist misogynist we would still rather follow him than the poorly-acted protagonists trying to avoid one another.

Drama about rocky marriage has sex, swearing, pot use.

This intimate relationship drama doesn’t provide much incentive for emotional investment in its unsympathetic characters