History Film / APerfectGetaway

* BecomingTheMask [[spoiler: One of Rocky's rules of deception. There is even a scene showing how both Rocky and Cydney practice being the people whose identity they've stole, including mannerisms, accent, and background information on the victims family and friends.]]

** Played with, but [[spoiler: Nick genuinely is a badass]]. While its still unclear about how much of the stories he told Cliff and Cydney were true, Nick DOES have a metal plate in his head and DOES [[spoiler: easily kick Cliff/Rocky's ass, despite having just been shot in the head]].

* TooGoodToBeTrue: Gina ask Cydney about her life. Cydney tells Gina how perfect her life is and how she plans to have lots of children with Cliff. Gina responds by telling her a story about a preacher who claimed to be holier than thou, only to get caught cheating on his wife with another man. She makes the point that people whom pretend to be perfect are liars. [[spoiler: This gets Cydney to open up about how she really met Cliff, who is really Rocky.]]

* SqueamishAboutSlaughter: Subverted. Cydney and Cliff are appear to be unnerved by Nick and Gina nonchalantly butchering a goat Nick hunted. [[spoiler:However, it is soon revealed that Cliff and Cyd are a pair of SerialKillers who have done MUCH worse things to other humans.]]

''A Perfect Getaway'' is about Cliff and Cydney. Cliff and Cydney are newlyweds who have decided to spend their vacation in Hawaii. Then, they find out when they get to a second island that a pair of serial killers-- a man and a woman-- are on the loose on the islands. They then run into Kale and Cleo, a pair of suspicious hitch-hikers and Nick and Gina, a self-proclaimed "American Jedi" and his girlfriend. All three couples wonder if the other two couples are the killers, all while [[DeadlyRoadTrip wandering farther and farther from society and deeper into the jungle...]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Cliff/Rocky and Cydney]].

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Cliff shoots Nick in the back of the head. Unusually for this trope though, Nick ''survives'' (due to the metal plate in his head).]]

* CerebusSyndrome: This movie starts out suspenseful, but also very funny. About halfway through, it gets really fucking disturbing.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The CB radios in the Kayak]]. It's fired in one of the best jump scares in recent years.

* {{Gorn}}: The gore was fairly limited to a handful of shots in the last few minutes.

* HorribleHoneymoon: The newly-married Cliff and Cydney head to Hawaii for their honeymoon, only to learn there's a SerialKiller on the loose and they might be the next targets. [[spoiler:It's played with as it turns out ''they're'' the killers and going on a murder spree sounds like a great honeymoon to Cliff - whose real name is Rocky - though Cydney is increasingly ambivalent. It's played straight in the backstory, as Rocky murdered the real Cliff and Cydney while they were on their honeymoon so he and his girlfriend could assume their identities]].

* IJustWantToBeYou: The killers' motive.
* ItsAllAboutMe: To the point of solipsistic Nietzche wannabe inducing evil [[spoiler:by Rocky.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Lampshaded, just so the audience won't know who the Red Herring ''is''. Not only are Kale and Cleo Red Herrings, but so are Nick and Gina]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Cliff and Cydney were the couple on the other island. He was a screenwriter, she was his wife. They told some dude named Rocky and his girlfriend all about their lives. Rocky and his girlfriend killed them, stole their identities and are the protagonists.]]
** Played with. But [[spoiler: Nick genuinely is a badass]]. While its still unclear about how much of the stories he told Cliff and Cydney were true, Nick DOES have a metal plate in his head and DOES [[spoiler: easily kick Cliff/Rocky's ass, despite having just been shot in the head]].
* SceneryPorn: Hawaii looks pretty awesome.

* SkinnyDipping: Gina is introduced sunbathing naked on a float in a swimming hole; despite Cliff and Cydney (who he just met) standing behind them, Nick immediately strips down to join her. The lack of awkwardness makes Cydney comfortable enough to doff her clothes and swim with them. The whole scene is played for very little intentional {{Fanservice}} and comes off very natural.
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Rocky. It's examined much more than most media, too. He describes the feeling that the world as going into "power-saving mode" when he isn't looking at it.]]
* SqueamishAboutSlaughter: Subverted-- Cydney and Cliff are appear to be unnerved by Nick and Gina nonchalantly butchering a goat Nick hunted. [[spoiler:However, it is soon revealed that Cliff and Cyd are a pair of SerialKillers who have done MUCH worse things to other humans.]]

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: It's called A Perfect Getaway. In the trailer, they specify that the killers are a man and a woman. If you haven't put it together before you're in your seat, you must be a saint.
* TwistEnding: Well, actually, it happens about halfway through the movie, but same difference, right?

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Rocky after Nick gets the best of him during the climax.]]

* Cloudcuckoolander: Nick comes off as a bit of one throughout the first half of the film, with Gina filling the role CloudcuckoolanderMinder. He is handsome, skilled in the wilderness, and very friendly, but also comes across as odd due to his somewhat exaggerated behavior and (seemingly) outlandish stories about his time in the military. Justified though, in that he likely has some brain damage and/or PTSD from a traumatic brain injury that left him with a metal plate in his head.

* IJustWantToBeYou The killers' motive.

* ItsAllAboutMe: To the point of solipsistic Nietzche wannabe inducing evil [[spoiler:by Rocky.]]
* KnifeNut: Nick keeps a tactical trench knife strapped to his ankle, nicknamed Gilligan ("My little buddy.")
** [[spoiler:Cydney]] turns out to be armed with an Italian stiletto switchblade, used to cut off the Oahu victims' fingers.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Cliff and Cydney were a couple on the other island. He was a screenwriter, she was his wife. They told some dude named Rocky and his girlfriend all about their lives. Rocky and his girlfriend killed them, stole their identities and are the protagonists.]]

* SkinnyDipping: Gina is introduced sunbathing naked on a float in a swimming hole; despite Cliff and Cydney (who he just met) standing behind them, Nick immediately strips down to join her. The lack of awkwardness makes Cydney comfortable enough to different her clothes and swim with them. The whole scene is played for very little intentional {{Fanservice}} and comes off very natural.