Safe House is a great guy movie. It has everything a guy movie needs. Guns, lots of guns of all types, handguns, sniper rifles, machine guns, machine pistols. They had everything but shotguns. They may have had shotguns and I missed it, happens you know. So if your weapon of choice is a shotgun, you may want to think twice about this movie.

Safe House has some great chase scenes. They are not just chase scenes they are more like serial crash scenes. I bet the crashed car budget in this movie was a million dollars. They didn’t crash anything exotic like a Lamborghini or Ferrari. No just your everyday expensive cars like BMW’s and Mercedes. You know they are expensive but they are as cool looking as your niece’s Toyota Camry or your boss’s Lexus, in my opinion

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The movie has great fighting. The fighting is hand to hand, intense, very quick and they use everything from fists, to chains, and even broken pieces of glass. The fighting is filmed in close and in HD. You can see the eyes start to pop out when they are getting strangled. I have no idea how they get a camera in on the action and how they keep somebody from getting hurt during the scenes.

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This movie even has sports. Now the sport is soccer, which everybody knows is not a real sport but still there are some great field goal kickers have come out of soccer, not that a field goal kicker is a real football player and field goals are not that great either. I mean they are proof positive of failure right? I mean it shows you couldn’t score a touchdown so you had to get a soccer player to bail you out. Kind of humiliating when you think about it, right. They had to use soccer in the movie because it is set in South Africa. They don’t play real football in South Africa. I mean how could they play football with a whole team of field goal kickers. Somebody has to block and tackle and carry the ball. Right?

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The movie also has cool dudes. Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds are two very cool dudes. Neither one has any quit in them and they fight, kick, claw, and shoot their way to the very end.

You know what else Safe House has?

A very hot, very sweet, french girlfriend. Meet Nora Anazeder who plays Ana, Ryan Reynold’s girlfriend. She is very sweet, very hot, very clingy, very concerned, and leaves him alone, except when he is showering.

She also does what she is told. In this scene he tells her to get out of town and you know what, she does. She wimpers and cries a little bit but does what she is told. Is that realistic? No, but its every guy’s fantasy. I tell you what is realistic, Reynold’s character occassionally stops his fighting, killing, car crashing, and being a cool guy to call her to check in and see if can pick up anything on his way home and that he is very busy and could be a little late and is that OK. Happens to the best of us. They could have left that out, that’s too realistic.

So, you may be wondering what the movie is about? Who cares its got all the ingredients of a great movie. Go see it. I give it four stars out of five. Tell your wife or girlfriend that it is a romantic comedy. Blame me if they get mad at you.