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Rating of
2.5/4
Mediocre, forgettable movie.
Matthew Brady - wrote on 10/10/2014
Tobin Frost: "I'm already in your head".
Safe House is about a house under the protection of the CIA becomes a target and it is up to the facility's house sitter to extract the criminal in hiding and take him to a secure location.
Let me start off with the goods: Denzel Washington in this movie nails it as the smart guy who will mess with you mind no matter what. I feel really sorry for Ryan Reynolds for being in movies that mostly bomb at the box office or him getting slammed by critics, but in this film he did a good job, but his character in the movie was really boring. Played the normal boring guy that the movie wants us to care about but you don't. Some of the action scenes where really well done, but some of the action scenes where shot poorly.
Now for the bad: The …
Rating of
4/4
One of 2012's best.....
Lee - wrote on 08/09/2012
One of the best films of 2012 so far in my own honest opinion! This is my kind of film you know the one with a kickass trailer and then the movie is twice as good? Safe House is one of those films. Action packed right from the initial get go as Ryan Reynolds is working for the CIA as watch person (housekeeper in the film) for a safe house. Of coarse the very first guest of his safe house gets brought in during the middle of the night wearing a hood so he cannot know where he is. When the hood is removed it turns out to be CIA's most wanted fugitive Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). Shortly after Frost gets brought there the safe house gets breached. We dont know who the men storming in are but we do know they all want Frost!! This leaves Mr. Reynolds in charge of getting this notorious …
Rating of
3/4
The Not So Safe House lol....
MovieAddict - wrote on 06/03/2012
“You wanna be the guy that lost Tobin Frost…tick tock…tick tock….”
“Everyone betrays everyone!”
”The truth is too messy…keeps ‘em up nights”
Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a low-level CIA agent manning a seldom-used safe house in Cape Town. His life is boring and routine until they bring in one of the Agency's most wanted, rogue CIA agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) to interrogate.
Frost however is the target of mercenaries, and when they attack the safe house, all hell breaks loose and Weston is forced to go on the run with Frost and figure out what the heck is going on in the grimy world of espionage and corruption.
Denzel is his usual brilliant self and Ryan was terrific as the rookie CIA agent tasked with looking after the older more …
Rating of
3/4
Safe House review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 04/28/2012
This flick doesn't capture your attention in terms of plot, but more on the action sequences. Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is an agent who encounters an ex-CIA agent named Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). Frost is interrogated vehemently by Daniel Kiefer (Robert Patrick). Matt advises her girlfriend Ana Moreau (Nora Arnezeder) when trouble arises. The lead artists (Reynolds and Washington) were in character and pretty much solid with their performances. Action was fast paced and almost similar to Bourne Ultimatum with the chases and shaky camera. Only reservations this reviewer had were the direction in the storytelling which was almost non-existent until the climax. It made the conclusion somewhat tricky and non-nonchalant. Most fight scenes were dizzying, still looks authentic …
Rating of
3/4
Safe House - A Safe Bet For Good Entertainment
MovieMike - wrote on 03/11/2012
Ryan Reynolds plays CIA lackey, Matt Weston, whose primary function has been to maintain a safe house in Cape Town for the past year. As we meet him, he’s grown restless with the boring assignment and is anxious to be promoted to something more rewarding. He is suddenly thrown into contact with Denzel Washington’s character, Tobin Frost, a CIA agent who has been branded a traitor. From there, director Daniel Espinosa takes us on a fast-paced ride that is punctuated with several intense actions sequences involving car chases, shootouts, and hand-to-hand fights.
Reynolds’ character is the main focus here and the actor does a great job of conveying the anguish and indecision he feels in having to execute the actions of a field agent that he’s studied but never had to carry out …
