Safe is fairly typical Jason Statham fodder. Lots of Jason getting all moody and fighty. You know the bad guys are gonna get it.
I shalln't go into too much detail as I don't want to spoil the film but if you like action movies, car chases, people getting shot and kicked and thrown out / off things then you will probably enjoy this a lot.
The film does by chance give you a glimpse into the poor and lawless underbelly of New York; so desperate is this that it is hard to believe it could ever exist in so low a form. Sadly there is plenty of evidence out there to suggest the poverty at least is very real.
The action had some nice cliché breaking scenes that made me smile. Those bits in a film where you think, OK, action movie rulebook page 19... the scene where our hero does this and that happens... Nope.
Oh and from an acting point of view, and there is some, there is sufficient characterisation to genuinely want to see the back of the bad guys and see the heroes win through.
All round pretty good for this kind of film. I'd happily watch it again in a few years when I've forgotten how it ticks.
Oh and as an aside, it's a bit wobbly in places, especially the start, so don't sit too close to the screen if you get sea sick!
I shalln't go into too much detail as I don't want to spoil the film but if you like action movies, car chases, people getting shot and kicked and thrown out / off things then you will probably enjoy this a lot.
The film does by chance give you a glimpse into the poor and lawless underbelly of New York; so desperate is this that it is hard to believe it could ever exist in so low a form. Sadly there is plenty of evidence out there to suggest the poverty at least is very real.
The action had some nice cliché breaking scenes that made me smile. Those bits in a film where you think, OK, action movie rulebook page 19... the scene where our hero does this and that happens... Nope.
Oh and from an acting point of view, and there is some, there is sufficient characterisation to genuinely want to see the back of the bad guys and see the heroes win through.
All round pretty good for this kind of film. I'd happily watch it again in a few years when I've forgotten how it ticks.
Oh and as an aside, it's a bit wobbly in places, especially the start, so don't sit too close to the screen if you get sea sick!
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