The New York Times Safe House is essentially and very effectively a rollicking smash-and-crash chase movie that happens to be surprisingly well...
New York Daily NewsSafe House devolves into unexciting action scenes that feel left over from the "Bourne" flicks and are peopled with cloak-an...
The Boston GlobeThe ethical breaches and double-agent stuff have no sting. So many people are risking and giving their lives, and we barely ...
The Philadelphia InquirerIf Denzel Washington isn't the coolest dude out there, I don't know who is.
USA TodaySafe House is a bracing action thriller made all the more watchable because of its two lead performances.
Los Angeles TimesIt ... shows how much can be done with a business-as-usual CIA-thriller script when it's bolstered by effective acting and e...
Wall Street JournalSafe House is a sturdy enough thriller, but one that consistently defaults to the less interesting of its two lead character...
New York Daily NewsSafe House may strike you as a brilliant movie, provided you've seen fewer than, say, 10 spy thrillers. I've seen more than ...
Washington PostAs fun as the movie occasionally is, it can't make its own drama convincing, much less give Reynolds the nudge he needs towa...
The New YorkerThe film's super-saturated look and quick cutting are mere substitutes for any real sense of intrigue.
Film School RejectsWashington and Reynolds are charismatic and have great chemistry together; some spectacular action scenes including a car ch...
FirstShowingThere's nothing quite like watching Denzel Washington go all bad-ass on a group of bad guys. He's calm.
Hollywood ReporterA gritty, repetitive extended chase through South Africa with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds well paired as corrupt CIA...
IGN MoviesReynolds -- who too often coasts on the comfort of his celebrity, playing some variation of "the Ryan Reynolds guy" -- benef...
Entertainment WeeklyWhich is why the trickiness of Washington's performance begins to ebb, replaced by something somber that might even look tra...
ReelViewsSafe House is an overlong, underwhelming knock-off of The Bourne Identity - another generic spy thriller in which the "bad g...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Writer: David Guggenheim
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Brendan Gleeson
Release: February 10, 2012
Writer: David Guggenheim
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Brendan Gleeson
Release: February 10, 2012
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