Friday, February 10, 2012

Safe house

  • Swedish director Daniel Espinosa works overtime to deliver a gritty, action bonanza, long on kamikaze-style fight sequences and spectacular car chases, but short on substance.
  • (CBS News)
  • Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in "Safe House," which will be released in theaters on Friday, Feb. 10. Reynolds plays Matt Weston, a young CIA agent assigned to look after a dangerous fugitive (Washington).
  • (Norfolk Daily News)
  • Denzel Washington stars in the Universal thriller Safe House. Based on early Friday box office grosses, Universals Safe House may come as both the weekends biggest winner and its biggest surprise. B.O.
  • (Variety)
  • It seems like it's almost a rite of passage for new leading men to have to do a film opposite Denzel Washington.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • "Safe House" stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, who are both at odd places in their careers.
  • (Daily Texan Online)
  • For more on Denzel Washington, and African American entertainment in general, join our Facebook page. But "Safe House," like "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" or "Unstoppable," are kind of forgettable movies.
  • (Examiner)
  • From a trailer one can glean a films genre, the actors who portray the main characters, possibly the relationship between those characters, perhaps the primary setting and the central conflict.
  • (Notre Dame & Saint Mary Observer)
  • Photo: Warner Bros/Screen Gems/Universal/20th Century FoxLast weekend, Chronicle put mind over matter and eked out a narrow box-office victory over Daniel Radcliffes shriekfest, The Woman in Black.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • In addition, this week sees the release of Safe House starring Denzel Washington. Rated R, this action-thriller details the adventures of a CIA agent on the run after an attack in a safe house. The Vow also debuts this weekend.
  • (ksl.com)
  • "Safe House" seems like as good a name as any for a movie with the apathetic tagline "No One Is Safe," although that doesn't quite nail the exasperated secondhand-superspy-thriller vibe.
  • (The Faster Times)

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