An average movie

I have always been a fan of Denzel Washington so I was really eager to check this flick. On top of that, he seemed to be playing something else than his usual righteous lead character so I was definitely intrigued. Eventually, it turned out to be a decent action flick with some really good ideas which were, unfortunately, not always well developped. First of all, even though the movie is called ‘Safe House’, the action took place only 15 minutes in the actual safe house so that was rather misleading. Then, the intro with Ryan Reynolds and his girlfriend was just terribly lame and sentimental. I mean, can you imagine Jason Bourne calling his girlfriend to make some nice chitchat at the beginning of ‘The Bourne Identity’? Of course not! It was seriously a mood killer and every interaction with the chick was seriously annoying. Ok, we got the picture, the guy is supposed to be a young and inexperienced agent, that was actually pretty good, but you don’t have to make him a total wuss. Eventually, they should have focused on the psychological struggle between Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, that was much more interesting. Eventually, it was never really clear why Washington ended up in the American consulate, instead they rather focused on some decent but rather repetitive action scenes. To conclude, in spite of the fact that the whole concept was not very well developped, it was still rather entertaining and I think it is still worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10