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What happens when you take two gangs, some corrupt cops, stick them in New York City and throw in some action-film cliches? You get Safe. A film which stars Jason Statham and... That’s actually it.
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That’s when he sees a little terrified Chinese girl, Mai, being pursued by Chinese mobsters. Statham, looking in great shape considering he hasn’t worked out in a year, batters the gangsters to death before taking off with Mai. Turns out that Mai is a memory genius and was given the code to a safe containing a large sum of money.
So, Statham finds himself playing an obscure game of hot-potato, fighting off Russians, Chinese and crooked cops all intent on getting their hands on Mai to gain access to the money in the safe.
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With all the obvious twists and turns a typical brainless action movie has we’re taken through a series of action cliches such as climbing on trains, car-chases and those slow ‘man walks’ we get to the final confrontation, you know, the bit where two guys are meant to fight hand-to-hand? And they pull a Transporter... Oh dear. The whole film feels jagged, rushed in places (and not in the adrenaline surging good way) and alarmingly slow in others.
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If you’re a mindless drone who isn’t looking for a film with plot and character, you’ll probably enjoy this. If you’re looking for something with some intelligence behind it, you’ll probably have a pretty good time but you won’t walk away feeling enlightened. As far as ‘save the little kid’ movies go, this one’s no Man on Fire.