Safe House

    Safe House
    2012

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Denzel WashingtonTobin Frost
    • Ryan ReynoldsMatt Weston
    • Vera FarmigaCatherine Linklater
    • Brendan GleesonDavid Barlow
    • Sam ShepardHarlan Whitford
    • Rubén BladesCarlos Villar
    • Nora ArnezederAna Moreau
    • Robert PatrickDaniel Kiefe
    • Liam CunninghamAlec Wade
    • Joel KinnamanKeller

    Recommandations

    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      Director Espinosa stages the endless action with a tremendous flair that recalls John Woo's grittier moments, and cinematographer Oliver Wood, who shot Woo's finest Hollywood moment, "Face/Off," gives the whole violent show a downright brackish look that borders on the sublime.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      Compared with a superior potboiler like "Salt," which messed with your brain in entertainingly far-fetched ways, Safe House is action-movie porridge gussied up into a less-clever-than-it-seems mystery.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      [A] scattered but not totally disagreeable CIA conspiracy thriller.
    • 60

      Arizona Republic

      Too often Washington is made to simply sit and observe -- which is not a fatal mistake because he is such a good actor that even then he's worth watching. Worse, though, at times he's gone altogether. That's not the only flaw in the fairly straightforward thriller, but it's the biggest.
    • 58

      The A.V. Club

      Safe House does altogether too good a job establishing Washington as a seemingly unbeatable adversary: He brings so much gravity to his role that Reynolds seems hopelessly overmatched.
    • 50

      Variety

      In contrast with the fragmented kineticism of Paul Greengrass' "Bourne" movies, there's no existential dimension to the shattered-glass aesthetic here; it's just raw, chaotic action, inelegantly shot and staged but no less unnerving for it.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Terse and understated, this is a spy vs. spy tale designed to minimize talk and maximize action, not at all a bad thing in movies but over-worked to near-exhaustion here.
    • 50

      ReelViews

      The pacing is uneven, the frenetic action is rarely suspenseful, the dialogue is neither witty nor intelligent, and the anticlimactic endgame drags out to an improbable conclusion.

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