Safe House

Genre: Action/ Crime/ Mystery // Running Time: 115 minutes // Release Date: February 10, 2012
Cast & Crew at IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1599348/

Overall Rating: 9 out of 10

Synopsis: A young CIA agent played by Ryan Reynolds has his usually boring and uneventful post at a CIA safe house in South Africa thrown into chaos when the arrival of a highly wanted fugitive results in an all out assault on his safe house forcing him to take the fugitive and run for his life.

This movie would have gotten a little higher rating, but I found the last 30 minutes or so to drag on a little too much for my liking and that kind of skewed my overall evaluation I think. That being said however, this movie was fantastic! I'm a huge fan of Denzel Washington, especially when he gets to play a villain role. The way he acts and talks and just his general presence when he's on screen is incredible and is definitely something other actors should learn from and try to adopt into their acting style.

There is also a large element of conspiracy and mystery in this story, which when combined with the great acting, makes this movie really fun and interesting to watch. Then on top of that you add some well shot, exciting car chase scenes, random gun battles, and some high speed hand-to-hand combat scenes, the movie becomes pretty much the epitome of what an action movie should be. Yes, it even has explosions!

I strongly recommend this movie. I would even go so far as to say that this is the best movie I have seen this year. If you're one of those people (apparently the average person), who only sees three movies a year, this should definitely be one of them. Unless of course you don't like action movies ... and if that's the case then I guess I have nothing further to say to you.