THE SAFE [2012 MOVIE] REVIEW!

Arguably The Best Jason Statham Movie Ever Made.

The tag line says it all. Over the weekend, I walked into the theater at Atlantic Station here in Atlanta, with my head hung low; I readily assumed that I was poised to waste my goddamn money on another action movie that was void of a solid plot or any respectable acting. And I was completely wrong.

I've followed Jason's career over the years, watching the big-budget and even the small-budget European movies he's made. And this new 2012 movie, Safe, is the BEST one he's EVER starred in. My applause of this flick relates not just to the acting by the British actor Jason Statham [which has improved dramatically from his rigid breakthrough Transporter days], but the script executed by the foreign writer & director, Boaz Yakin, actually played off nicely upon the strengths of the cast. I the Safe movie, you actually believe that the Chinese mafia were badasses and that the Russian mob were definitely heavy-fisted. But the story with two opposing street factions appears to have crooked cops and a duplicitous police chief interwoven perfectly into it.

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