The “housekeeper”
of a CIA safe house gets in his hands a very dangerous criminal.
Sometimes a
movie works purely on the strength of a performance. Here Denzel Washington
single handedly turn a run on the mill thriller into a pleasurable experience.
He got some
slack for basically being his autopilot on screen persona but nonetheless he is
so good in what he does that even on autopilot he is better than most of the
field.
Ryan
Reynolds, who last time I grudgingly had to admit he can act, got the short
stick. He plays the nice straight guy to Washington charismatic criminal. This
without adding that it’s really hard to play alongside him and not suffer in
comparison.
The movie
in itself is nothing to write about. Pedestrian direction, boring action
scenes, some neat ideas about the concept of the “Safe House” but nothing that
could really hold a full feature together. On the other hand the South African at
least is original.
Action fans
will love it but for everybody else every Denzel Washington performance is a
threat.
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