Movie Review - Safe House (2012) (R)

Age of CIA agent

It may be a stretch that can be thought of A hideout place It is structured and edited just like an intelligence thriller, so it can be said to be an outdated movie. In fact, we have plans involving car tracking, cruel hand battles, shootouts, secret files acquisition and transport. Of course there is a dangerous international impact. However, if you narrow down the characters of the hero and concentrate on dialogue and action, something theme can not be avoided from innocence to maturity. We all have an idealistic idea of ​​the passion we pursue. Mr. Mat · Weston (Ryan Reynolds) of CIA wants to promote to a local agent as he is far more exciting, not only paying his salary, leaving the scope of his parent's career in a safe house in South Africa And I am eager to. By the end of the movie, he learns lessons learned by most people. Not everything is attractive.

Here, we have entered the former CIA agent called Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) who did illegal acts and is suspected of leaking confidential information to contacts of many international criminals. Physically, he is detained by US government officials, but it is hard to say that he was arrested on the US embassy in Cape Town strangely with his own free will. Interrogation involving controversial water boarding techniques does not go so far. A safe house was broken by a band of rebels who wished to kill Frost. Since no one has survived after a bloody battle, Weston is forced to detain Frost and brings him to a new safe home. Weston will spend the rest of the movie trying to prove his worth as a field agent while returning his boss back to Washington, DC One is his mentor, Brendan Gleeson . The other is Catherine Linklater (Vera Farmiga), orders Weston to leave the grid and waits for detailed instruction.

Interest in the story is the fact that Frost is the master of psychological manipulation. It is impossible to read him. In most movies, I know that the wheels in my head are always rotating. The fact that Weston is a hot newcomer, of course, has no challenge making it much easier to implement his scheme. However, I am making it sound like frost. It is an evil commander, as the hell of the villain James Bond ruled the world. A simple fact is that Frost knows too much. It is a mistake to call him a teacher, as he never trains young Weston or someone else. The more they come into contact, Weston learns more about his whereabouts at the CIA. Each small revelation is like a knife that abandons idealism.

Certainly, this film does not give us anything new in terms of plots and themes. The action sequence is technically competent, but it is routine and expected. Victims who are editing are also a little bit better to effectively convey the evolving chaos. However, there is a wonderful chemistry between Reynolds and Washington. Reynolds and Washington fight each other like an adversary fight. They are also pretty good individually. Reynolds & # 39; If his character admits to his girlfriend (Nora Arnezeder) that he is actually an agent of the CIA and she needs to leave the country for her safety In a scene that will not be in his best condition. Until then, his line of work, even on personal matters, demanded that he repeatedly lie on her. This scene works well because it empathically demonstrates the influence of Frost over Weston.

Regarding Washington, I do not think there is a single scene he did not attract me. Frost is an attractive character - an expert of what he does, many secret men motivated not by malice but by disillusionment, concentrated intensely and deeply. It seems that there is never a moment when you do not have the right tool for a particular occupation. This will include a micro syringe that he uses to inject small capsules on his side. His relationship with Weston is more complicated and infinitely more attractive than that of hero / villain. Both men are driven and talented, but only Frost is smart enough to take advantage of Weston's enthusiasm. He is not really a friendly admiration for Weston, but rather willingly appreciate that Weston is beginning to understand where frost comes from.

The essence of Frost's mission is not particularly original. That is probably the reason why a mandatory plot could not impress me with intertwining with it. However, it opened the way of the end which was very satisfied in its conventional way. Whether the ending is happy or not is open for debt. It is divided into professional and individual decisions, and we are thinking about some possibilities that neither is fun. I was as pleasant as I found a plot, A hideout place A valuable experience for me. Apart from Reynolds and Washington, I also can not give much screen time, but I was impressed with acting adding reliability to the movie. One is no-none ya da da, who plays Weston's girlfriend as a woman who can not really feel emotionally. The other is Rubens Blade, an old fellow of Frost who lives in the slums of Cape Town. Please see him and the frost sharing wine. Even the thinnest line can have a big impact.