'Safe' does low-rent action incredibly well. This is a hard-edged flick---well shot, 'adequately' acted, and awesome to the core. This is also Jason Statham's best action movie---trumping the cartoon fisticuffs found in his Transporter flicks. Granted, 'Safe' is not great by action standards, but it's definitely entertaining.

While it's in the vein of other Statham movies, the child actor and a couple well done fight/chase scene elevate this from the dribble he's been featured in lately.

Boaz Yakin has an interesting eye for action visuals but someone let him pen his own script which is a complete pile of dogshit. They cobbled together a cast that can speak authentic Mandarin Chinese along with subtitles which added absolutely nothing to the silly storyline. The Cop, Russian, and Chinese gangsters were all one dimensional violent cardboard cutouts for the ubermenschen Stratham who plays a super police assassin living as an MMA fighter/homeless bum to take down. Boring.

An amusing enough little burst of action hokum. The plethora of villains make it hard to really engage with any one, though they do provide a sense of menace lurking everywhere. The closest thing to a "final boss" battle is uninspiring, but there's a very cool scene involving a raid into an enemy base. Jason Statham punches many dudes.

A past-his-prime white male frolicking about New York with an 11-year old Asian girl who's good at math? It's Woody Allen's life with 175% more fisticuffs.

The plot is awful, but Statham kicks ass and delivers oneliners, so it's not all bad. Also, great directing.

Yeah, I know what you're going to say.. just an average shoot em up movie. But I dont agree. This movie is better than most shoot em ups because in this movie the enemies not only fight the hero, they also fight each other which brings a whole new concept to your standard action movie. Loved it!

This film has some decent action moments but overall lacks believeble characters and is actually just an excuse to shoot and fight.

I imagine the writers' brainstorming session went something like this, "hey, I know what to do, though this might sound crazy. Let's remake 'Mercury Rising' and use a different balding guy, maybe?"

Für nen Actionfilm ganz OK, typischer Stratham. Viel Schießerei ohne Sinn und Verstand ... halbwegs unterhaltsam ohne dabei aufzufallen.

decent action, nothing special

exposition was a little long, though rushed, and a little obvious, but: great plot, awesome direction (esp. action direction), great camerawork and editing...let's just call it an awesome movie and stop right there. :D

This movie had an interesting premise about a man and a mysterious girl, except her mysteries are revealed in the first minute. The resulting 1.5 hrs of gunfights, most of which question not only the protagonists intelligence and need to run from the cops. With an anticlimax to the point of hilarity, this movie works hard to ensure any redeeming qualities have been bleached out of this horrifically uninspired and cheap wannabe broody gunner flick.

A very European action movie that doesn't match The Mechanic but is certainly better than the Todd Haynes one.

very good 10 out of 10 awesome action movie jason statham is awesome in this movie

An unfit homage to Leon.

It takes about a half hour to set up the story, before launching head first into an hour long chase/fight scene that only slows down a couple of times long enough to catch your breath. There's some pretty hard hitting hand to hand, and quite a lot of chaotic gunplay in 3 and 4 way shootouts. Statham is in full on badass mode, and he straight up murders dozens of gangsters by shooting them in the face. Standard Statham fare, but with nastier violence and a higher body count.

Man, can Jason Statham kick ass and watching the Chinese get knocked off were some of my favorite parts.

Jason Staytham really needs to up his game. This film had potential but ended up a rehash of similar films but done horribly.

Had potential but bad acting did it in.

Forgettable but I've seen worse. Disappointing that all the one liners were in the trailer, I wanted more. Jason Statham is great as usual, the guy was just made for film. Glad that the child actor wasn't featured too heavily because 99% of all child actors are god awful and she was no different. Statham's motivation at the end didn't really make sense either but whatever he beats the shit out of like 100 chinaman so it was cool

Jason Statham movies are to 18-35-year-old white males as Tyler Perry movies are to middle-aged black women. I am a 26-year-old male.

Goeie film.

Statham making mayhem. Again.

Action movies bore the crap out of me - this one entertained.

Yakin spends the first half-hour saying "look at all the baddies Jason's going to kill later" & then spends the rest of the movie saying "I told you so". Yakin has a good eye for action, but he pulled the script for this right out of his arsehole! It's painful to listen to. That said, I can't say I didn't enjoy myself; watching Jason clean up America by killing all those Commie's, Chinamen, bent cops & a gay! I look forward to a sequel, where I assume Arab's will be shaking in their boots.

Really liked it. I like that it was so messy. Like Stewball said, there's a 4 sided war, and it's pretty much right from the beginning so instead of just Statham/kid vs Evil Bad Guys, everyone's shootin' at everyone. The little girl gave a good performance, the action was intense and interesting. And honestly, some of the scenes made me crack up (sandwich, running over guy, bashing Russian head in car). Some of these scenes have been done before but Safe handled some differently.

Meh, nothing much. I only watched it because it has Jason Statham in a supposedly action movie. But, boy, how ancient the story and how bad the side characters are.

It's exactly what you expect. Check your brain at the door, pretty much. But it at least kept me entertained.