Depending on your cinema modus operandi, Safe House is either an intriguing chemistry experiment between one of Hollywood’s best actors and a still up-and-coming one. Or it serves as a re-hashed, well-worn story of a government operative that may or may not be a villain. A complete combo package is not a choice.
Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) runs a rarely used CIA safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. Bored out of his mind and desperate to be reassigned to someplace more exciting, Weston suddenly receives the high-profile fugitive Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). Frost is an ex-CIA operative who now sells national secrets to the highest bidder and who has turned himself in to the U.S. Embassy to escape unknown attackers desperate to gain information he possesses. When CIA agents begin to debrief Frost with some tough water torture, the same attackers break into the safe house and kill everyone but Westin and Frost who make a dramatic escape. Westin must now deliver Frost to the CIA while protecting him from the bad guys and, at the same time, prevent him from escaping. It all leads to high-speed chases with bullet-ridden bodies left in the wake.
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