{"id":2576,"date":"2012-04-27T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2012-04-27T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:12:25","slug":"safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"SAFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A slow-building B-movie thriller, “Safe” is nothing new for Jason Statham. A girl is in need of his protection from assorted gangs of bad men. But the dialogue crackles with flinty one-liners.<\/p>\n

“Don’t lose sleep. He had it coming,” he tells bystanders after killing a boatload of bad guys.
\nHe’s ready to get on with the serious citywide butt-whipping he’s about to lay on the Russian and Chinese mobs and New York cops on the take.<\/p>\n

We meet Mei (Catherine Chan), who is in a Russian mobster’s office. He wants something from her. A number. He says he’ll subject her to “one of those tortures you people are so famous for.” Nobody thinks anything of menacing a little girl. Mei is 11.<\/p>\n

Writer-director Boaz Yakin (“Remember the Titans,” “Uptown Girls”) keeps us off balance, spending much of the film’s first half-hour following Mei. She slips free of her captors, but only temporarily. That’s when Luke (Statham) sees her and finds, in her, a purpose: keep her “Safe.”<\/p>\n

The dialogue and the characters are better than the plot. And the fights are better than even the one-liners. And Statham brings the pain. In the world of B-movie action, Statham’s still the safest bet there is.<\/p>\n

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