Safe House
Published 2012-06-24
Film info
- Title Safe House
- Director Daniel Espinosa
- Year 2012
- Run time 1hr 55m
- Genres Action, Thriller
- Tagline No one is safe
- Cast Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson
Tobin Frost, one of the CIA’s brilliant officers turned dangerous traitor, stuns the intelligence community when he resurfaces in South Africa. While being interrogated in a safe house, brutal mercenaries attack, forcing rookie Matt Weston to take the infamous Frost on the run. As the masterful manipulator toys with his reluctant protégé, shaking the young operative’s morality and idealism, the two unlikely allies must fight together to uncover who wants them both dead. Packed with intense action and thrilling suspense, Safe House takes you on a deadly ride through a covert world where no one and no place is ever safe.
Live Blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:07 | "...my sister, she owns a bakery. She will make you fat." |
| 4:21 | It's The Guard! |
| 6:16 | I like restaurant booths behind curtains. |
| 11:12 | Ah, there's always a handy protest when you need to get lost in one. |
| 12:45 | It always worries me when people tuck guns into their waistbands. |
| 20:49 | He has a pretty impressive rack of monitors going on there. |
| 22;26 | I don't really understand this because they haven't actually asked him anything and he hasn't actually refused to talk. Do they just not like him? |
| 26:28 | It's certainly a change of pace to be learning French one minute, and facing twelve heavily armed men the next. |
| 30:48 | Squealing the tyres as you make a hasty exit does tend to draw attention to yourself. |
| 33:26 | See, you have to know your surrounding area really well to have a good car chase. I think I would fail miserably. |
| 35:32 | That's an ad for seat belts, right there! Amazing. |
| 39:52 | "We'll take it from here. That's when you know you're screwed." |
| 41:46 | How do you check someone into a hotel with handcuffs on? |
| 49:04 | Vuvuzela! |
| 53:13 | Gah, the poor local police. They always get it! |
| 1:03:22 | Oh god, is now the time to come clean? |
| 1:09:34 | "One day you'll understand. You got more past than future, you'll learn." |
| 1:15:06 | These poor people's houses being ruined. |
| 1:21:18 | Uh oh, I sense a whole world about to come crumbling down. |
| 1:29:39 | Well, I didn't see that coming. |
| 1:38:21 | "You do what you have to do" is never a good excuse. |
| 1:46:59 | Enemies in every intelligence agency in the world would not be good. |
Thoughts
The first ten seconds of the trailer sold this to me. "He was one of the most brilliant CIA operatives we ever had... until he went rogue." ROGUE! Put it on right now!
This was good, action packed, full of intrigue, flip-flopping sides, and some good dialogue along the way. My only complaint is that it was actually too full of all that stuff. There was never a moment to take stock of what you were seeing. At the end, Mr C and I thought we needed to discuss it to figure out what had gone on - but it actually only took two sentences. It wasn't complicated, it's just there hadn't been any time to process.
Good film, anyway, Denzel is great, and Ryan is perfectly acceptable on the eye.
Rating: 4 / 5