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Jason Statham is what you might call a mans man to the point
, no nonsense and when he threatens to kill or kick someones ass, you know hes very capable of doing it. Despite his chiseled features and rough and tumble attitude, hes a bit of an acquired taste, especially for female audiences. (My mom thinks hes just okay, my dad loves his movies.) Stathams movies are for that guy who wishes he could be as direct and whip a few asses, barely breaking a sweat. Theres not much originality in the actors new flick, Safe, a genre picture that represents the first foray into action for director Boaz Yakin (Fresh, Remember the Titans). Yakin obviously studied a lot of seventies and eighties crime films, hoping to capture the tone of action pictures from an era long gone. The film Safe can most be directly compared to is John Casavettes 1980 thriller Gloria and though Statham doesnt have the acting chops of the far tougher Gena Rowlands, on more than one occasion he surprises, displaying a vulnerability thats rare for this type of film.
Like Rowlands, Statham takes it upon himself to become the protector of a young child. In this case its math genius Mei (Catherine Chan) who a year earlier was abducted by the mob in her native China and shipped to the states because of her incredible skill with numbers. Around that same time, Stathams cage fighter Luke Wright accidentally killed his ring opponent with one punch, costing the Russian mobsters who bet on him a large chunk of change. Rather than kill Luke, they decide to punish him by murdering his wife, vowing that anyone he befriends with will suffer the same fate, leaving him a broken man and a nomad. Mei has become a pawn in a scheme that involves the Russian and Chinese mobs as well as the citys mayor, when her path crosses Lukes during an escape attempt. On the verge of ending his own life, Luke sees a little girl in trouble and decides to intervene, putting himself in conflict with a rogues gallery that includes Chinese gangster James Hong, dirty NYPD Police Captain Robert John Burke, and corrupt mayor Chris Sarandon. The wonderful thing is that these three character actors appropriately play their roles as the cardboard cut-out, genre villians they were written to be.
As expected, the bad guys are not only caught off guard by the rogue element that is Statham, but in time we learn theres more to him than meets the eye. Much like that horrible monologue an unknown R. Lee Ermey was given to describe the nature of Steven Seagals rogue agent in On Deadly Ground, Statham is revealed by a major baddie to be more than just a cage fighter/sanitation worker, but a Jack Bauer type whose job it was to mop up after 9/11. As Ermey so eloquently put in that ridiculous Seagal film, they are dealing with a professional, a man skilled at taking out the trash so to speak. How wonderful for Mei, who can use all the help she can get as a mob war ignites in a race to recover her and her knowledge of a series of numbers that could lead to thirty million dollars.
One of the best things that Safe has going for it is its sense of immediacy. Clocking in at just over an hour and a half, this film moves at a steady pace with a sense of confidence even though the story is more than a tad generic. First half hour is the set-up, followed by an hour of Statham shooting, maiming or breaking the necks of just about anyone that gets in his way. His character loses that sense of mystery as the story progresses and his backstory slowly revealed, yet the actor gives a focused performance and its actually quite believable that his character has been given a new sense of purpose by a little girl he doesnt even know. Despite some strong work from Chan, its unfortunate that she and Statham share little screen-timee together, but she still manages to take the focus off strong character actors like Hong or Joseph Sikora as the head Russian gangster, whenever she shares the screen with them.
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The girl is ten year old Mei (Catherine Chan) and she happens to be a genius/math prodigy. Mei was kidnapped from her school in China and whisked off to New York City where she now resides with Triad boss, Han Jiao (James Hong). The old dude doesn't believe in computers and since Mei has a flawless memory, she becomes his human ledger.Unfortunately for Mei, the Russian mob knows all about her awesome skills and they want her for themselves. So they wind up kidnapping her. Wow, kidnapped twice in one movie. That's a record.Okay, so the Russians have Mei - the want her to tell them about some number. The little genius refuses to spill what she knows and when these goof balls aren't looking, Mei escapes into the wild streets of Manhattan.Oh, did I forget to mention... there's also a bunch of crooked cops after her as well.It really sucks being popular.Anyway, back to Mei, Luke and the subway platform. The Chinese and Russians are closing in on our girl fast. Luke, being the bad ass killing machine that he is fights them all off, grabs Mei. What follows are incredible chase scenes, nonstop violence, killer fight scenes, crashing cars, more killer fight scenes, as Luke struggles to keep Mei... safe.Now don't think that 'Safe' is all blood and guts. Well, basically it is, but there's also some funny and sweet moments between Luke and Mei and that's what added to the fun.
By and by, Statham is revealed to be a kind of anti-terrorist hitman, eminently familiar to New York mayor Chris Sarandon and his ass-kicking aide (and apparent lover) Anson Mountwhich is no surprise, even though his character is first identified as a garbage collector. And therein lies the problem with Safewell, that and its porous plot, monotonous editing, and lifeless one-liners. Its hard to swallow Statham, who spent the Crank movies supercharging his last minutes of life, as a suicidal sad-sack, just as its painful to see him yoked to a cute little girl in an obvious attempt to soften his image. By cross-cutting the two characters storiesa device Yakin uses with the indiscriminate zeal of someone whos just discovered itSafe suggests a kinship between the displaced orphan and the man audiences know as an unstoppable killing machine. It doesnt wash, and it doesnt feel like Yakin expects it to. The character-building is proffered in bad faith, like every scene in Safe that doesnt involve bloodshed. Statham can sell a punch, but not his own vulnerability.
by: GURU07
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