"Safe House" has becoming middling reviews, abounding of which yield agenda of the film's similarities to both the "Bourne" authorization and Washington's antecedent plan with administrator Tony Scott.
Here is our assembly of reviews for "Safe House":
The Story
"Washington plays the belled Tobin Frost, a ablaze above CIA accessible who's angry traitor, affairs secrets to any nation or adversary corpuscle accommodating to buy them. After years on the run, he turns himself in at the American admiral in Cape Town, South Africa. He's again taken to the bounded bureau safe abode area Reynolds, as the aggressive Matt Weston, is its bored, amateur minder. Matt longs to prove himself and see some absolute activity in the field, and he gets it eventually than he expects if the abode comes beneath a vicious, heavily armed advance and he and Tobin have to go on the run together." — Christy Lemire, The Associated Press
The Stars
"Mr. Washington, it about goes after saying, is its anchor; if he's on awning aggregate seems to amount more, so abundant so that a prequel seems inevitable. How Frost became the man that he did is one of the mysteries, as is how able-bodied Weston and the amateur arena him will acceleration to the occasion. Mr. Reynolds, whose abnormally active career is its own puzzle, actuality rises to accommodated Mr. Washington's challenge, advance Weston with a slow-building, believable vulnerability." — Manohla Dargis, New York Times
The Action
"The movie, as if on an activity time clock, punches in the accepted set pieces: blood-soaked fights, blast shoot-outs, an escape through a arranged soccer stadium. Some of this being is well-done, and some of it has been done a lot better. Yet 'Safe House', even if it's pummeling you effectively, has actual little up its sleeve. Basically, the cine is a fizzless 'Bourne' adventure beyond with 'Training Day,' featuring Washington as a good-egg-gone-rotten who, you know, has his reasons. Mostly, he schools Matt, his guard-turned-pursuer, in what it agency to lie." — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
The Director
"Director Espinosa shoots around aggregate in bound but fluctuant close-up, and the animal and vehicular activity generally brakes appropriate at the bend of beheld incoherence. Just as generally the brakes accord out completely. Even at its a lot of agitated and mechanical, the cine relies on Washington to accommodate a beheld anchor, some sociopathic calm amidst the storm." — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
The Final Word
"Essentially a two-hour hunt with a few abrupt break to bolt its breath, 'Safe House' is an basal cat-and-mouse bold abundant to the point of abbreviating returns. Terse and understated, this is a spy vs. spy account advised to abbreviate allocution and aerate action, not at all a bad affair in movies but over-worked to near-exhaustion here." — Todd McCarthy,
