Safe is your average action thriller replete with gun battles and car chases
Movie: Safe
Cast: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan
Directed by: Boaz Yakin
Rating: 3.5
Mei is a little girl with a great memory. And Luke is man who has lost hope to live. And destiny has it to bring them together.
What follows of course, are umpteen number of ‘Stathamisms’ that leave the audience waiting for more. Little Mei is so good with numbers, she can even correct her teachers. And she is a perfect ‘safe house’ for a numerical code that computers today fail to be. She is then sent to America where Russian mobsters and corrupt police men want to get the code from her, to lay their hands on an elusive booty.
Statham gets involved in the game, and then what follows is what makes the movie what it is – little emotion, less talking, and even less silence.
Statham is interested in the money of course, but apart from it, is also concerned about Mei. No wonder he goes out of his way to make sure the big beasts don’t lay a finger on her. His one-liners are to watch out for and his action scenes are to die for. We can’t help but notice that there seems to be something with helpless Chinese women and girls and Statham – stories with them in his movies always seem to work for him. Remember the first edition of The Transporter with another Chinese girl Lai for whom he breaks all rules? Yea, we agree it’s not a manufactured-in-planet- Mercury kind of story, we say its still better than the balmy Bollywood and tapori Tollywood movies on any given day. Statham fans, don’t play safe, just go watch it.