Safe House: Not So Safe.

Ryan Reynolds & Denzel Washington in
Safe House (Picture by Google)

Friday Night, I went with the very same group of friends I saw The Grey with to see Safe House with my expectations being extremely high.  But sadly, I wasn't all that impressed.  Denzel Washington (as always) delivered his audience with an awesome performance, but he was really the best part about this whole film.  Ryan Reynolds, and other members of the cast were good too, but they were really over shadowed by the greatness that is Mr. Denzel Washington.  It just wasn't properly cast, I believe.  The actors are all talented, but some of them were out of his league, I think.  Washington gave one of those awesome performances when one would play a bad man, and yet you're rooting for him the whole time.  The movie did have a very interesting story line, but it didn't really deliver the performance that I was expecting from it, at all.

Here's a summary about the movie: Denzel Washington plays a man named Tobem Frost, a man convicted of treason and betraying his country.  He's taken to this Safe House where Ryan Reynold's character Matt Weston, where a breach of the security system happens. The two men escape, and they flea from the scene.  The CIA, who Weston works for believe that his intentions aren't as pure.  There was a whole lot of action, and there were some very cool fight scenes.  Washington and Reynolds both go toe to toe with some villains throughout the  there are a bunch of twists and turns in this story, but what made me upset was that they were very noticeable.  I saw some of the things that occurred in the movie from about a mile away, and was able to predict the outcome about fifteen minutes before the scene actually happened.  It was one of those movies.  But it was also one of those movies that made you question the motives of our government, and what our government could possibly be capable of.  The movie was still good, but I don't see what the huge build-up was about! This movie got so much buzz from everywhere. The trailers would play about every commercial period, and I thought it was going to be this incredible movie. It felt very..Man On Fire, based on the trailer, and I didn't get that when I saw the movie.  I'll say that it was good, though. I just went it with expectations that were very..very high.