- Starring: Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Jason Statham
- Summary:
- Director: Boaz Yakin
- Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 25
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Mixed: 13 out of 25
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Negative: 2 out of 25
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90Safe is both a slavish imitation of cinema gone by and a movie for our time. I found it wickedly entertaining and perversely refreshing in its total lack of contemporary piety.
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80A rough, exhausting, exhilarating action picture with a payoff which would have delighted Sam Fuller or Howard Hawks. The Stath - an actual Olympian, remember - is on top form.
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60With Yakin's all-action plot operating like clockwork, an on-song Statham proves anything but expendable in a genre he dominates. Predictable, sure, but equally pleasurable.
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38Writer-director Boaz Yakin delivers his conflicting elements mostly as intended, and with obvious ambition. But he fails to take care of certain fundamentals - most problematically, coaxing out the emotion he's seeking from Statham and young newcomer Catherine Chan.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 26
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Mixed: 6 out of 26
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Negative: 3 out of 26
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