Safe As Houses

Not only does Safe House have strong performances from it’s super star leads, Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, but it’s got a great supporting cast in Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick, Sam Sheppard and Liam Cunningham. It comes as a surprise then that having attracted a large number of quality actors that the script for safe house is derivative and predictable.

In fact, Ryan Reynolds made the same story a few years back with an inexperienced Government Agent having to protect a ‘criminal’ from trained assassins only to have a crisis of conscious about his superiors. That film strove to be original with an ending that was pounchy and memorable. Safe House plays it safe for the most part despite some edgy action film-making in the grainy photography and Bourne shakey-cam on show. Solid.