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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Safe House rockets along, taking a familiar formula and making it work - hard.
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70
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The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Essentially and very effectively a rollicking smash-and-crash chase movie that happens to be surprisingly well acted.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Though Safe House may be too violent and nihilistic for everyone's taste, it does have several crackerjack action sequences.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Compared with a superior potboiler like "Salt," which messed with your brain in entertainingly far-fetched ways, Safe House is action-movie porridge gussied up into a less-clever-than-it-seems mystery.
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63
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Safe House has two powerful performances at its core, a hectic plot, a huge body count and a mild sense of déjà vu amid the pulse-quickening tension.
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50
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Washington Post
Swedish director Daniel Espinosa isn't as adept at chase scenes as "Bourne" director Paul Greengrass: We sometimes lose track of who's supposed to be where and which direction the bullets are flying.
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50
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Wall Street Journal John Anderson
Safe House is a sturdy enough thriller, but one that consistently defaults to the less interesting of its two lead characters.
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50
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
I'm not getting the most of his (Washington) charisma or enough of that million-dollar dental work. I'm not getting the joy, and I miss that.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Worse, Safe House asks us to believe that Ryan Reynolds can outclass Denzel Washington in the art of being a hard-ass. Not on this planet, baby.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Safe House is an idea for a movie. It's a few blustery gestures in the direction of a story, with five good actors doing their best, trying to hold up the barest frame of an idea, while investing the surrounding emptiness with all the truth they can muster.
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