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The film's super-saturated look and quick cutting are mere substitutes for any real sense of intrigue.

-Bruce DionesFull Review

This is a naive director with so little insight you wonder what comic books he's been reading.

-Rex ReedFull Review

I won't deny that the movie hooked me with sheer brute energy and dragged me along with it most of the way.

-Colin CovertFull Review

Nothing really new here, but the cast is first-rate.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

"Safe House" has just enough bone density to emit some satisfying cracks and pops whenever the action gets going.

-Rafer GuzmanFull Review

Whatever its flaws, the film gives you no chance to get bored.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

"Safe House" is a safe bet if you're in the market for a conspiracy-driven action drama. There are times you wish it wasn't quite so safe, but it does deliver the bang for your bucks.

-Tom LongFull Review

As fun as the movie occasionally is, it can't make its own drama convincing, much less give Reynolds the nudge he needs toward Matt Damon-ville.

-John DeForeFull Review

"Safe House" may strike you as a brilliant movie, provided you've seen fewer than, say, 10 spy thrillers. I've seen more than 10 spy thrillers.

-Kyle SmithFull Review

A movie with a double-crossing intelligence plot that's so generic it's an irritating intrusion in a lively chase through the streets and shantytowns of Cape Town, South Africa.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

It's pretty good.

-Chris VognarFull Review

"Safe House" is an idea for a movie.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

Washington's Tobin is a pedantic cipher and Reynolds' Weston a dull Dudley Do-Right, and the resulting mix, apart from a few good chases, is bland enough to bottle for Gerber's.

-Peter HowellFull Review

"Safe House" is a sturdy enough thriller, but one that consistently defaults to the less interesting of its two lead characters.

-John AndersonFull Review

It ... shows how much can be done with a business-as-usual CIA-thriller script when it's bolstered by effective acting and expert direction.

-Kenneth TuranFull Review

Excellent performances from both Washington and Reynolds can't can't save Safe House from its boilerplate-thriller bones.

-Ian BuckwalterFull Review

Safe House is a bracing action thriller made all the more watchable because of its two lead performances.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

Safe House plows through its familiar twists with efficient brio and a distinguished supporting cast.

-Richard CorlissFull Review

If Denzel Washington isn't the coolest dude out there, I don't know who is.

-Steven ReaFull Review

The ethical breaches and double-agent stuff have no sting. So many people are risking and giving their lives, and we barely care.

-Wesley MorrisFull Review

[Reynolds] still doesn't quite match up with Washington. And while that doesn't sink Safe House, it certainly makes it a little less of a ride than it might have been.

-Glenn KennyFull Review

"Safe House" devolves into unexciting action scenes that feel left over from the "Bourne" flicks and are peopled with cloak-and-dagger stereotypes.

-Joe NeumaierFull Review

A viciously energetic South Africa-set actioner that makes up in sweaty atmosphere and brute force what it lacks in surprise.

-Justin ChangFull Review

"Safe House" is essentially and very effectively a rollicking smash-and-crash chase movie that happens to be surprisingly well acted.

-Manohla DargisFull Review

Even at its most frantic and mechanical, the movie relies on Washington to provide a visual anchor, some sociopathic calm amid the storm.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

Too often Washington is made to simply sit and observe -- which is not a fatal mistake because he is such a good actor that even then he's worth watching.

-Bill GoodykoontzFull Review

In the midst of "Safe House's" predictable mayhem and unoriginal plotting, Washington is fun to watch as he outsmarts everyone again and again.

-Soren AndersonFull Review

Ultimately, "Safe House" reveals itself to be more interested in bombastic, bloody thrills than provocative, analytical thought.

-Christy LemireFull Review

It's plain most of the well-known players are on hand for purposes of refreshing their bank accounts.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

The movie, as if on an action time clock, punches in the standard set pieces: bloody fights, clattering shoot-outs, an escape through a packed soccer stadium. Some of this stuff is well-done, and some of it has been done a lot better.

-Owen GleibermanFull Review


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