Safe House

Directed by Daniel Espinosa

2012

Viewed March 2012

Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a young CIA agent in charge of a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. He has spent an uneventful year being the "housekeeper" for the safe house and wants to move on to bigger and better things but is told that he doesn't have enough field experience. Meanwhile rogue agent Tobin Frost (Densel Washington) is in Cape Town trying to sell some information and ends up in a situation that causes him to surrender himself at the U.S Embassy. He ends up being brought to Weston's safe house which is breached causing Weston to take Frost on the run. The color and the frantic pace of this film reminded me of a Tony Scott film. There was action after action after action which kept the plot moving along really well. I really have grown to like Ryan Reynolds, and Denzel Washington is always fun to watch. B