Running Time
95
min
Release Date
Apr 27, 2012
Safe
A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change...until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever. But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action...and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war.… Show more
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When a standard action-thriller has as many chaotically moving parts as Jason Statham’s “Safe,’’ you might think the filmmakers lost a handle on their narrative somewhere along the way. Not so in this case. Writer-director Boaz Yakin (“Remember the Titans’’) 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.
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