Movie review: 'Safe House'
Take that, Matt Damon!
When it comes to tire-screeching, fender-mangling car chases, death-dealing bursts of violence, brutal gunplay and cunning games of cat-and-mouse spycraft, Ryan Reynolds' solitary CIA soldier in the rapid-fire “Safe House” is every bit as butch, buff and battered as Damon in the Bourne cycle of espionage thrillers.
The Bourne reference seems entirely apt here because “Safe House” director Daniel Espinosa and screenwriter David Guggenheim (both relative newcomers) seem to take most of their cues for breathless pacing, complicated plotting and chaotic, big-bang action set pieces from the Robert Ludlum playbook.
Alongside Reynolds' fresh young CIA agent Matt Weston, a potent Denzel Washington delivers an ominously silky, charmingly roguish performance as cynical CIA case officer Tobin Frost, a legendary agent who “went off the reservation” years earlier and has been selling state secrets on the black market to the highest bidders.
The tale is set in teeming Cape Town, South Africa, were the ambitious Weston is stuck in a dead-end assignment watching over an urban “safe house,” which the agency uses as a clandestine refuge for endangered “assets” on the run.
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