Safe House (2012) (original) (raw)

A rookie CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. When the house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

A rookie CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. When the house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. (less)

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Writer: David Guggenheim
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Rub�n Blades
Producer: Scott Stuber

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Review by Brian Orndorf, February 9, 2012

6 / 10

"Safe House" is a satisfactory movie that's capable of greatness. It suffers from a common lack of creative courage, terrified to leave the audience to interpretation for very long. What begins as an enigmatic actioner with a marvelous handle on pounding screen energy is slowly brought to its knees over the course of two hours, eventually sized down to a standard display of black hats and white hats, with a hefty helping of government conspiracy hogwash to aid easy digestion. "Safe House" is at its finest locked in pursuit, with the viewer handed morsels of information between scenes of men sh ...read more...

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