The Getaway King

Stylish one-bite made in Poland. Nothing explicitly groundbreaking, although it plays with dreadfully cool styling. However, it was precisely this styling that ultimately did it a lot of harm. At times, I was not looking at anything else but the slow-mos, with dense colored vintage filters and music from the eighties. It is true that all this can look good, but when it lacks emotion, not even good actors can save the situation from the end average. (06/02/2022)

I was looking forward to it, but in the end I'm quite disappointed. The Poles have been rolling out gangster films lately in a style that dominates Europe and this one definitely had potential, but among the recent Polish efforts, it comes out as a loser. I was expecting something along the lines of the French film Public Enemy, but that is not the case. The protagonist is considered to be King of Escapes, he holds the world record and has escaped from prison 29 times, but the film doesn't really focus on that. There are no elaborate prison escapes, there's hardly any action, I found the protagonist uninteresting, and the whole thing is so lacking in pace, with a weird sequence of scenes not really following each other, I almost didn't enjoy it. This guy definitely deserved a better film. I don't get the comedy genre classification either, this is pure retro-style drama. 5/10. (05/11/2022)