Get Away (2024)
January 23, 2025 10:55 PM - Subscribe

A family's vacation to a remote island to witness a local tradition is greeted with intense hostility by the locals.

Richard (Nick Frost) and Susan (Aisling Bea) take their kids Sam (Sebastian Croft) and Jessie (Maisie Ayres) to a remote island in Sweden to witness an 8 hour play to commemorate a historic and bloody incident that happened 200 years ago. However, when they get close to the island, they encounter clear discouragement from locals and then outright hostility when they arrive. Will history repeat itself? Have they been invited to be part of the karantan, a ritual re-enactment of how the islanders threw off British oppression with bloody violence?

Written by Nick Frost and directed by Steffen Haars.
posted by miss-lapin (3 comments total)
 
After Black Cab, I really wanted to like this movie and yeah...it's better than Black Cab, but that's not saying a lot. This is a black comedy where few of the jokes landed and the third act twist was obvious. Also fifty minutes is a long set up for a violent third act. There are some enjoyable moments, but to me the pay off wasn't worth the investment.
posted by miss-lapin at 11:01 PM on January 23


It was ok, wasn't too long. I was in it for Aisling Bea.
posted by porpoise at 11:43 PM on January 23


I didn’t hate it but wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

I was very confused by the part where a character has a sword driven into one cheek and out the other cheek, knocking out a crown, but for the rest of the movie there didn’t seem to be any evidence of that wound???
posted by ejs at 10:06 AM on January 24 [1 favorite]


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