A car crash, a raided safe house and a car chase in Cape Town. The action scenes were great, the first act is definitely the most lively. Gleeson was good, but again was underused until the final act. Her character was pretty much pointless which infuriates me every time I watch this. Farmiga, criminally underrated by the way, was underused. Kind of like a master and his apprentice, except this master is on the opposite side of the law to his apprentice. ![]() Washington and Reynolds made for an uneasy chemistry and the two work well together. If you've watched this, then you'll probably remember nothing about the story. Full of espionage, double crossing and a damn convoluted plot in an attempt to make it engaging. On the run from mercenaries that raided a safe house, Reynolds attempts to prove himself by bringing him in. We follow Washington who plays a dangerous renegade with important information. Yet somehow this still fell short from being great. I mean if you are going to bring in Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Brendan Gleeson and Vera Farmiga.you're pretty much halfway to making a good film. Safe House is a well acted action thriller. Safe is sound, satisfying entertainment that will delight fans of the action hero and may surprise those who are experiencing his moves as an international star for the first time. Statham is a smart actor who may have become pigeonholed by genre, but he consistently satisfies with his deadpan demeanour and genuinely impressive chops-both physical and theatrical. Safe is actually a little more appealing than the Transporter and Crank movies because of its attention to narrative detail and imaginative battle setups. He also handles his star with bare-knuckled exuberance, letting Statham do what we want him to: outwit and out-brawn the villains with gut-busting grace in a nearly uninterrupted string of neatly choreographed set pieces. Writer-director Boaz Yakin has the right stuff to make the pieces fit into some semblance of logic, if not always believability. It's not a bad story by any means and it serves the adventure aspects in ways that are often giddily agreeable. Ditto the cops, with whom it turns out he has some lingering bad business. Sensing the chance for redemption, he starts cracking heads and cracking wise with the Chinese and the Russians. Wandering Manhattan in self-imposed internal exile, he's a homeless, depressive loner on the verge of suicide, until he accidentally stumbles into all this safe business by crossing paths with Mei in a moment of preposterous movie coincidence. ![]() Luke went down hard after not taking a fall for the Russians, and he's lost his family as a result. The common thread in all this is, of course, Jason Statham, who plays Luke, a disgraced mixed martial arts champ with a chip on his shoulder because he's now living life as a chump. The mayor's involved as well, along with his mysterious aide, who has a stake in all the above-mentioned parties and who proves to be the figure to bring the plot points into focus. Then there's the corrupt squad of elite New York City police department goons who only want money, and after they find out there's a lot of it in said safe, they join the chase too. ![]() There's also the Russian mafia, desperate for the long string of numbers locked in Mei's head, which is later revealed to be the combination of an actual safe. There's the Chinese triad mob that has kidnapped and is exploiting a little girl named Mei (Catherine Chan), a hard-nosed cutie with a photographic memory she's literally a human safe. And there are plenty of bad guys to go around. But by all means do expect a flat-out fun-times thriller, with all the bone-crunching stunts and nimbly executed action sequences we've come to expect from the bald British bulldog, whose steely eyes and no-quarter attitude lays bad guys to waste wherever he wanders. Special Features:ĭon't expect a Jason Statham franchise starter à la the Transporter series from Safe. Over the course of one harrowing night Luke snaps back to life and tears through the city’s underworld. When the Russian mafia and a group of corrupt cops also launch a plan to kidnap Mei, it’s clear she holds the key to something deeply dangerous and these men will stop at nothing to get it. Mei (Catherine Chan), a 10-year-old mathematical prodigy, is abducted by Triad gangsters wanting to use her unique ability to memorise a secret code. Destitute and living alone on the streets of New York, Luke has given up hope….until a chance meeting with a young girl changes everything. When ex-Government agent Luke Wright (Jason Statham) exposes the Russian mafia for rigging an illegal fight, they seek revenge on his family and threaten to kill anyone close to him.
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