I don’t know what I was hoping for with Safe House but I certainly wasn’t expecting so little. With films
like Taken setting the bar very low
these days for the action genre it seems that a whole parade of films are
following in its ridiculous wake and Safe
House is but one of these movies. Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA Safe
House Operative in Cape Town.
His role involves waiting around a secure house in case the CIA ever needs to
move a criminal, terrorist etc. Twelve months into the posting Matt’s first
house guest arrives in the shape of Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) a highly
skilled rogue CIA Agent who is being chased by a menagerie of vaguely foreign
looking killers. Frost repeatedly ditches Weston but he never stops hunting the
rogue agent down and more nonsense I’m bored.
Safe House was
more full of holes than holy water from the holy land and had the most obvious
twist since Rock ‘n’ Roll. It is such a stupid movie that I can barely bring
myself to discuss it. It is never exciting or interesting and beside solid but
unspectacular central performances there is literally nothing of merit in the
entire 110 minutes.
