Safe (2012)

Safe (2012)

Directed by: Boaz Yakin
Screenplay by: Boaz Yakin

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Running Time: 94 Minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Viewed: Owned Blu-ray

She has the code. He is the key.

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Comments: I had trouble finishing Safe. Not that there was anything wrong with it, mind you - I just happened to start watching it last Wednesday and fell asleep. Then I picked up again Thursday night and fell asleep again. I was gone for the weekend and busy with other crap yesterday (and by busy, I mean catching up on NCIS for today's premiere, watching the season premiere of Castle, and checking out Monday Night Football in between for good measure), so I didn't get around to it. I made a point to watch the film tonight, and I rewatched a good bit of what I'd seen last week to refresh my memory.

Despite the overwhelming ridiculousness at times, I quite enjoyed Safe. There's a few Jason Statham films that do nothing for me, but every once in awhile one reaches out and grabs me. Take, for instance, Transporter 2 - a film that out-sillies pretty much all other Statham joints. Yet it's one of my favorite of his action films. Safe works much in the same fashion: every time there's something that makes me rolls my eyes and think how stupid it is, here comes an awesome fight or action sequence. My attention shifts, and now instead of rolling my eyes I'm thinking how bad ass that last part was.

Safe's not going to to get much respect and will probably be in the $5 bin soon. But whatever, I liked it.