Less than a year ago, and yet what feels like three movies ago I was writing articles with intros talking about how well Statham has managed a Segal/JCVD-like career and yet kept it on the big screen, or how routine his tough guy roles have become, and now here we are again. This time Statham is protecting a little girl who seems to amount to being a fleshy thumb-drive as far as the plot is concerned. Because of a number she has in her head, a whole mess of criminals, gangs, and corrupt cops are after her, which sends ex-mega-cop Statham into play.
I’ll say action-wise this looks a tick more interesting than Killer Elite, though the plot set-up is a couple notches down from The Mechanic. All-in-all it appears to be a well-budgeted B-action movie take on The Professional, with all the grace and charm stripped from it. I do like the line about Statham’s huge balls.
Boaz Yakin directed Safe, and while Remember The Titans was assembled competently enough, he also wrote this film and his last writing credit is for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Yuck. It’s not even worth prognosticating on these movies anymore. Much more efficient to just let them fall in front of my eyes every four or five months and enjoy the surprise if there’s anything interesting or clever going on. This one hits March 2, 2012.
By Crom… make Crank 3 happen for Statham. Please.
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Renn Brown, The Trailer to Safe is…Awesome, and looks far better than, The Mechanic. I enjoyed The Killer Elite alot, and it is far better than his remakes. I do not look at Safe as a worse version of The Professional, but more as a better version of…War! Even if Statham doesn’t get to star in Crank III: Cranked to the Maximum 3D he does have the expected…Expendables 2, which to me is his…Best Film and potential Franchise as well!
That looks like it’s going to be all kinds of fun. Can’t wait.
I was wondering when they were going to get around to remaking Mercury Rising…
should of called it Throatpuncher.
Yeah…………….I’m going to watch the shit out of this when it hits theaters……………guilt-free too!
Renn, I like B action movies. I’ll watch this on dvd. I can’t abide spending $10 for the theater anymore.
Have you seen the trailer for Haywire? If not check it out.
Killer Elite was a great movie, but you have to remember that is was based on a True story that was being vehemently denied by multiple goverments around the world meaning itz all true since goverments lie like people fart and shit(all the time). His character could have been in COD:Blac Ops due to the time period.
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