Weston is a low-ranking CIA operative who happens upon the biggest mission of his career when a former high-ranking CIA agent Frost becomes his "house guest". It is only a matter of time before Weston realizes that there is a huge conspiracy going on and that no one is safe.
In Cape Town, South Aftica, rookie CIA agent Matt Weston is a safe house keeper and is in love with his French girlfriend Ana Moreau who does not know about his double life. When the most wanted rogue and former CIA agent Tobin Frost surrenders to the American Consulate to escape from an attack of dangerous soldiers of fortune, he is brought to the safe house to be interrogated by specialist Daniel Kiefer and his team. However there is a breach in the safe house and mercenaries break in the place expecting to capture Tobin Frost. Matt escapes with Tobin and he contacts the CIA senior management Harlan Whitford, David Barlow and Catherine Linklater that give instruction to Matt to reach another safe house. But Tobin warns Matt that there is an informer in the CIA and he shall not trust in anyone.
Safe House, as its title suggests, offered no thrill a minute moment, and instead conjured up something that was pulling its punches all the way. In other words, it stuck to the middle ground, with the good and the bad all laid out nicely even if the story by David Guggenheim had tried to work in some surprises, which were really borrowed clichés from a dozen action thrillers. You&#39;d know who&#39;s on the side of the upright, and those on the other side of evil schemers no matter how hard the characters try to hide their intent, wasting its wealth of acting talent for a mediocre storyline.<br/><br/>Helmed by Swedish director Daniel Espinosa, this film seemed to serve as refuge for Espinosa to try and emulate the way Tony Scott films work with Denzel Washington in the lead, such as Man on Fire, Unstoppable, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Deja Vu, and this went right down to having cinematographer Oliver Wood and editor Rchard Pearson follow the fast cuts and edits that&#39;s styled to try and bring out that adrenaline flow they had hoped you&#39;ll feel for in the film. It tried to be gritty, being in unfamiliar and lesser seen territory of South Africa, employing a really grainy though unnecessary look and feel, as if following a documentary of one covert agent&#39;s mission, right down to quick edits and extreme close ups to try and bring out that sense of urgency, and raw power when it comes to fisticuffs.<br/><br/>Alas these are nothing but gimmicky techniques that betray its lack of story. Beginning with an extremely lengthy prologue that can be done without a few scenes, Safe House stars Denzel Washington as the notorious Tobin Frost, an ex-CIA operative, one of the best in the business, having to turn rogue and having his head on the most wanted list. He gives himself up at the American consulate, but not before a big hullabaloo about meeting an MI6 agent and being engaged in an assassination attempt on his life. So Frost gets sent to a CIA safe house managed by Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds), who has so far garnered zero field experience having spent the last 12 months waiting for some serious responsibilities and action. As the adage goes, beware what you wish for, as not before long a bunch of heavily armed hoodlums come gunning through the front door in search for Frost, killing every CIA operative in their wake.<br/><br/>The film follows the formula of having Eraser, Assault on Precinct 13 and 16 Blocks all rolled into one, with South Africa being the playground, as Weston needs to move Frost from their compromised safe house to another, on one hand keeping both of them out of harm&#39;s way, and the other in Weston keeping Frost on a tight leash, where the latter&#39;s experience and immense reputation puts the rookie quite at awe yet confused, being very green in this big bad world of espionage where killing someone for information is nothing but second nature. One naturally comes to expect plenty of gun battles, danger lurking at every corner, and also some camaraderie to be developed in the relationship between rookie and veteran, giving their now on the same boat having their lives at stake against an unknown enemy.<br/><br/>Alas the film didn&#39;t live up to its promise, having constantly gently teasing at every point only. Curiously the film began with a romance with Weston&#39;s relationship with student Ana (Nora Arnezeder) and developed along the lines of secret agent having to lie to protect her, but didn&#39;t go beyond having to show the sacrifices that are to be made. True this isn&#39;t the main emotional crux of the film, but that again didn&#39;t provide any boost to the expected chemistry between the leads. Ryan Reynolds have perfected the deer-caught-in-headlights look at being startled and blindsided for the most parts, and it&#39;s a pity that the Frost role was nothing to challenge Denzel Washington, who could and had sleepwalked through this role that straddles the fine line between good and evil. He&#39;s played characters on both sides of the law before, and this one didn&#39;t even manage to scratch the benchmark he had already set for himself.<br/><br/>Ultimately, Safe House plays it all too safe. It didn&#39;t try to be too smart, or too action oriented, but touched on a little bit of everything to piece a movie together. Which is a pity that it could have been bolder with the kind of actors at its disposal, making the likes of Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson and Sam Shepard quite redundant (fans of Robert Patrick however should take note of his small role in the movie). At best this is a film that is reminiscent of other Tony-Scott-Denzel-Washington productions, but even then this reminded you of how successful that formula and pairing had been, and Daniel Espinosa sorely needed to be his own man here. Main theme song No Church in the Wild by Kanye West and Jay Z rocks though.
I lost all interest in this bland thriller some 20 minutes inside the story when the higher up tells the useless guardian &quot;kill all cameras in that room&quot;. And, obviously, that means in CIA talk &quot;make some pop corn and come watch us play&quot;.<br/><br/>Not that is the only slip up. The movie is filled with the same sort of details. Earlier Denzel&#39;s character avoids a simple death from a bullet to the head by giving himself up to the guys who have some scores to settle and will torture him for a few days before killing him. I am sure that the lab rat screen writer has a beautiful exit from the situation. And of course the character knew it all along so torture for a few days was the safe bet.<br/><br/>Wait a few minutes and things get even better for the brain dead audience. Nobody seems to stay calm after waterboarding. Yet Denzel has no issue. He even politely spits with the head turned off camera. Now there is the enemy. An enemy so smart that it can locate a CIA safe house (more like a deposit to me) and remotely turn off all cameras. Yet the enemy conveniently is unable to just watch the cameras and use them to locate the individuals. Also, that is nothing for the CIA operatives who can restore power and cameras without bothering to go outside. They even catch a glimpse of the attackers. All CIA operatives are armed, even in a country where weapons are not common, yet they have no idea how to prepare for a defense. That is no problem, because the attackers have no idea how to mount an attack. So they come in without body armor even if viewed from the street that would have been less obvious than their big guns.<br/><br/>I assumed that the rookie and the tied up man have no trouble escaping where as the trained CIA armed to the teeth will die one by one. I have no idea as I went out to ask my money back.<br/><br/>Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch
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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