Safe House

Rating: 2
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Fermiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard
Genre: Action

Things move from one episode of gratuitous violence to the next. The noisy gunfire, reckless car chases, sudden explosions make it difficult to follow any sort of story line and to separate the heroes from the villians. The only excuse to make a movie like this is to showcase an all-star cast, and perhaps to allow Hollywood to indulge in its favorite pastime of CIA bashing. Most of the characters end up being gunned down and I wondered if hero Reynolds might have well been included to make it a clean sweep.