review by Mr. DuLac Pro
Safe House 2012
Watched Jul 09, 2012
Mr. DuLac’s review:
Time's a-wasting. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
-Tobin Frost
What a waste of a film. It's not horrible by any means and has a great look, but that's it. The story just drags and the action is just average. Considering it stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds with Brendan Gleeson in a supporting role you'd think this would have turned out better. Ok, maybe Reynolds doesn't have such a great track record, but still.
The story has extremely predictable elements in it and the end of the film just seems to drag. It's like the credits role 15 minutes after the movie should have ended. I'm not sure why this cast got involved in this project because the story was obviously in the script.
In the end it's not horrible, but nothing special by any means.
I HATED THIS FILM.
But not while watching it. No, because I was just bored while watching it. But the film was just an absolute pile of "Meh" that I hate it for wasting my time.
The story isn't anything new. If you've seen one modern espionage film, you've seen this one. The action is horribly filmed, with literally no sense of geography or kinesthetic movement. The actors are just going through the motions.
In the end, I had to ask myself. What was the point? If nobody was going to try to make an actual movie, why did I have to put down $11.50 to see this piece of crap?
Hey, the South African setting was nice.
Just wrote my review, and we are definitely on the same page with this one.
I had practically forgotten I had seen this lol