One of Hollywood’s finest actors in my opinion is without a doubt Denzel Washington, I haven’t seen a movie where he portrays a character that I don’t like, and SAFE HOUSE is just another movie where he graces the screen with his acting. Although it was predictable at times and full of the action film clichés at some points, SAFE HOUSE aims to entertain you and that’s exactly what it does. In SAFE HOUSE, a rookie CIA Agent in Cape Town, South Africa, Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds), is the owner of one of these safe houses that the CIA has as a refuge for members of the organization. However, in Weston’s safe house there hasn’t been much going on lately, besides the fact that he has a relationship with his girlfriend Ana Moreau (Nora Arnezeder), that is until he is appointed to take care of a man named Tobin Frost (Denzel Washingt0n), one of the most wanted CIA agents who has gone rogue for the past ten years, selling CIA secrets to whoever wants to pay for them. Frost, being captured by the CIA and now taken to Weston’s safe house, is somehow being followed my mercenaries and now it’s up to Weston and Frost to find another safe house so they can continue Frost’s interrogation process. Little does Weston know, that even though Frost is being labeled as a criminal he still has to protect Frost because afterall he is the guest at the safe house which leads both of them to escape the house.
SAFE HOUSE is the type of action flick that I like, where you don’t know who to trust up until the end. Full of gun shootings, car chases and blood, SAFE HOUSE is your typical action movie that tries to do it’s best to uncover the CIA’s secret past. The director, Daniel Espinosa, does a good job filming the action scenes that hopefully will open for him a door in the action genre. Denzel Washington does incredibly well as Tobin Frost, sometimes just by looking at Ryan Reynold’s character do his job or conveying his own emotions, Frost leaves you wondering if he’s really a good guy or a bad guy. On the other hand, Matt Weston is a character that tries his best to prove the CIA that he’s qualified for the job, even if this means protecting a rogue agent like Frost, often communicating with his supervisor David Barlow (Brendan Gleeson) to figure out what their next move will be, but most of the time, Matt would end up taking matters in his own hands since gunmen in South Africa are out to kill Weston. Both characters manage to carry the plot, if there is such, that at times it was predictable but nevertheless entertaining. Overall, SAFE HOUSE is a non-stop action thriller, overall entertaining and worth your money.
SAFE HOUSE is in theaters now.
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