In movie terms, Jason Statham is a man without a country, an actor who fits so conveniently into a certain kind of movie that almost no one can think of him any other way. Where, oh where, can he go from here? Statham is the go-to guy for action movies that require an appealing, thoughtful protagonist who looks great shirtless, and Boaz Yakin?s Safe is, unfortunately, just more of the same, or perhaps even less of the same. It has neither the Red Bull?fueled crudeness of Crank nor the Frenchified lunatic vitality of the Transporter movies; it?s not even as cheaply entertaining as the generic hit-man retread The Mechanic. Safe shows Statham comfortably treading water, proving all the things he no longer needs to prove ? chiefly, that he?s a terrific action performer who moves with more grace than pretty much anyone else in the film world. The picture fails to challenge him. Safe is safer than safe ? it?s so relentlessly kinetic that it ends up being dull.
Statham plays former New York cop and sometime cage fighter Luke Wright, a guy who first gets on the wrong side of the Russian mob and then pisses off the Triads to boot. Somewhere in there, Luke?s old cop pals get in on the action too: They?re corrupt as hell, and when they finally get a hold of him, they?re all too eager to find ways to dispose of him. All three groups have a stake in one prized piece of property, who happens to be a person: Mei (Catherine Chan) is a child math prodigy who can hold streams of numbers in her head ? business figures, safe combinations and the like ? thus doing away with all those…
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