Safe House
Safe House
R | 10 February 2012 (USA)
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A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Libramedi

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

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Kidskycom

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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Allissa

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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betty dalton

Safe House is best described as a fullblown Jason Bourne copy. That's it's strength and it's weakness. It has got the same sort of chases, suspense, shootouts and a underdog that wins just as in the Bourne movies. Some scenes of the story are literally copied from Bourne. A good copy is better then a bad original, but the flipside is that everything has been done better in the actual Jason Bourne movies themselves. Acting in "Safe House" is very good though. Denzel Washington really delivers. And so does Ryan Reynolds, for his standards anyway. But there is too many shaky cam action. Even in dialogue scenes the shaky cam keeps hovering around. There are no breathers in this movie. I need that to appreciate the action that follows. Now there are just too much fighting scenes following eachother without any breathers, to a level where it becomes tideous.Still it has got a good adrenaline rush to it. And as I said acting is really good. It wont offend or bore you. I certainly got entertained. And sometimes it is just nice to see a B quality action movie just for the sake of it. That's the best advice: treat it as a B movie and you will be pleasantly surprised. If you expect originality, you will be let down...

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NateWatchesCoolMovies

Safe House is cut from the same cloth as many a spy movie, but this horse doesn't have quite as much pisss and vinegar as other ones in the stable, notably the Bourne trilogy. It's more of a slow burn, peppered with a few purposeful action sequences and quite a lot of time spent with Denzel Washington's world weary spook Tobin Frost, a veteran operative who has gone severely rogue after escaping the grasp of a nasty CIA interrogator (Robert Patrick). He's soon in the hands of rookie agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) who has been left to guard an agency safe house in Europe, now overrun with shadowy special ops dudes out to snuff Frost. The two of them are forced on the run together, and attempt to smoke out those behind the chaos, who turn out to be a little closer to home than they thought (don't they always, in these types of movies?). Weston is young, naive and idealistic, Frost is bitter, jaded and ready to burn the agency down around him for what his career has made him do. They're a formulaic pair made believable by the two actors, both putting in admirable work. Brendan Gleeson is great as Westons's dodgy handler, Vera Farmiga shows moral conflict in those perfect blue eyes as another paper pusher in Langley, and Sam Shepherd smarms it up as the CIA top dog. It was nice to see Ruben Blades as well, who doesn't work nearly enough, and watch for a sly cameo from Liam Cunningham as an ex MI6 agent. It's not the greatest or the most memorable film, but it does the trick well enough, has a satisfying R rated edge to its violence and benefits from Washington being nice and rough around the edges. There's a downbeat quality to it to, as Weston watches the futility inherent in the life of a spy unfold in Frost's actions, which are leading nowhere but a self inflicted dead for a cause that's bigger than both of them, but ultimately leaves them in the dust. Solid, if just above average stuff.

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FilmBuff1994

Safe House is a good movie with a well developed storyline and a very impressive cast.Throughout the movie I really enjoyed the action sequences and the performances,particularly Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds,who worked very well together.Howvever,I kept feeling like there was something missing,something that was making me not enjoy this movie as much as I could have,eventually it hit me,that it's simply not compelling enough,the characters are taken in to this big adventure way too quickly and the audience aren't given enough time before hand to get to know them,and because of this we are left feeling little affection or care for them as they are taken on this journey.I felt there were definitely scenes filmed that would have helped with character development but it felt quite obvious to me that it was poorly edited,because there were certain scenes missing that I couldn't put my finger around why they were not there,then it hit me that the editor made a few big mistakes,for this type of story it certainly could have been at least twenty minutes longer.Though it has its flaws,Safe House is still a very enjoyable film that I would recommend to anyone looking for a good action or crime film if you ever see it on television.A seasoned CIA agent must go rogue while an idealistic rookie tries to figure out the truth.Best Performance: Denzel Washington

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tieman64

An inept thriller, "Safe House" watches as CIA, Mossad and MI5 agents battle rogue CIA agents across South Africa and the United States. The source of their grievances? A leaked file which contains both the names of undercover agents and a record of their dirty deeds and dealings."Safe House" was released the same year as "Skyfall", a James Bond movie which opened with spies making the decision to "let people die" so that the "names of spies don't leak into the public sphere". One of the most overtly crypto-fascist Bond movies, "Skyfall" operated under the premise that spies kill, and die, for the greater good. That agencies like the CIA and MI5 have the blood of tens of millions of innocent human beings on their hands, is carefully ignored."Safe House", though, is less interested in turning blind eyes. Here there is a sickness in the CIA, international agencies reek of corruption, and the "good guys" are repeatedly being drawn to the "dark side". Like 1975's "Three Days of the Condor", or the similarly themed Jason Bourne franchise, "Safe House" thus ends with our heroes "leaking information to the media", thereby shining a light on the nefarious doings of their own agencies. As CIA-bashing is itself a modern cliché, and as the film ultimately suggests that these spy agencies can nevertheless effectively police themselves (in the real world, whistle-blowers are demonized by the state, killed or systematically victimised), none of this makes "Safe House" especially honest, deep or interesting. The film stars the annoying Ryan Reynolds, a doing-it-for-the-pay-cheque Denzel Washington and features an incessant stream of clichéd action sequences.5/10 – Worth one viewing.

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