Safe House (2012) - 3 stars out of 10
Denzel Washington is one of my favorite action movie stars, particularly as a psychologically superior character, but "Safe House" just didn't do it for me. The film has a good twist but an unoriginal plot. They should have focused on the manipulative abilities of the main character instead of making it "all action, all the time." They could have really capitalized on this by having more that 10 minutes of this movie take place in the safe house. Granted, it's not as if this film is called "Safe House" but... oh wait. I don't understand why this game of cat and mouse had to take place over and over again. Instead, they could have developed Washington's character in the safe house and limited the explosions to two awesome chase scenes instead of a dozen. The amount of destruction is so over the top that it made it difficult to suspend my disbelief. Ryan Reynolds was okay, Vera Farmiga was underused, and they stole their ending from "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol." I'd definitely encourage you to watch "John Q" or any other Denzel action film before this one.
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