Safe

2012 "She has the code. He is the key."
6.5| 1h34m| R| en
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After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Prismark10 Safe is one of the better recent Statham action films. He plays Luke Wright, a former cop who ratted out his dirty colleagues and then went on to become a MMA fighter but he knocks out an opponent and sends him to a coma and upsets a betting ring.In fact the Russian mafia kills his pregnant wife but leaves him alive to suffer. Down on his luck he is about to kill himself when he spots a young Chinese girl being pursued.This girl has a photographic memory when it comes to numbers. She has been brought from China by Chinese Triads and she has memorized a complex series of numbers but she has escaped.Wright rescues her but he has to deal with the Chinese and Russian gangsters as well as his ex colleagues from the force and figure out what these numbers mean and why does everyone find the girl valuable.The film in some ways has been inspired by the Denzel Washington film, Man on Fire. The plot is rather mindless and in some ways rather convenient but there is enough fun and action.
carbuff I only watched this because it was coming off of streaming. I have recently watched a bunch of crime/action/thriller movies and mostly wished that I could have my time back, so I was very leery about devoting 90 minutes to this. Jason Statham has no acting range (and I frankly doubt any emotional range in real life either), but when a script plays to his strengths, he is the most convincing action-adventure movie star working today, and this particular movie was a nearly perfect vehicle for him. It is violent and cartoonish, but it holds your attention from beginning to end. If you are looking for a "Statham" fix, this is the good stuff.
Marz Marzen Awful bullshit. M a yLinda Indal is a Norwegian Nazi who has been chosen by slave owners, feudalists, capitalists and the catholic church to play the part "mother of God" in this world. While the world isn't yet ready for such a stupid understanding of the world, though, in the meantime she's often playing the part of the poor girl being bullied by others. This movie is just one in a long row of movies building that image. They're in league with the implant guys, wheather they're aware of it or not. Ideological warfare is the ultimate reason Hollywood exists in the first place (remember David W. Griffith's 'The birth of a nation' and 'Intolerance').F a s c i s tc r a p
bob the moo A cage-fighter haunted by mobsters to the point of being suicidal is distracted from his own personal despair by a Chinese girl who seems to be being pursued by the same group. Stepping in to help her, Luke Wright finds himself drawn into a battle between several gangs and the police as everyone wants a number that she has memorized.Safe is a very odd film because it feels like the writers focused on just setting out the action scenes and it was only on the day of the shoot that someone realized they had no reason for the main character to be doing anything. The basic plot is there but Wright just seems to be whatever the film needs him to be. At first he is in despair and this is what we understand, then he needs connections to the police so it turns out he used to be a cop, then we need to believe that he is capable of what he does so we are told he is a super-soldier of some sort – and none of it makes sense. The plot really is crow barred around the action sequences and you get the feeling that the film never really believes it or cares about it either.The action is bloody but at least distracting in its violence. It is as much nonsense as the plot is though, and eventually it does get a bit tiring to see bodies dropping endlessly without any real investment from the viewer or impact on the main characters. Yakin directs with pace and energy and at least has that going for it. Statham is in odd accent mode, has some terrible lines of dialogue and never really gets his own character. He throws himself into the fights and gunplay, but he seems to have no thread to carry him through the film. Chan is not too cute, which is good, but she is a plot device. In the background countless henchmen fall and "you'll know his face" performances bulk out the main villain roles.Safe is really one for fans of Statham who will love him even in lesser films – which this is. It never convinces in the plot or characters, while the excessive action is distracting but ultimately overdoes the body count to its detriment.