Review of Safe

Safe (I) (2012)
8/10
Surprisingly competent action thriller
8 September 2012
We watched this movie without expecting too much, but it was a surprisingly good movie actually. Even my wife liked it, and she hates action movies. It felt like a video game, and a lot of the scenes seemed to be filmed from a first person shooter perspective. I loved the way we see action scenes from the point of view of the gun as it's shooting people. Much like a video game, the acting was low-intensity stuff, but at least not too stupid. The editing was tight in most cases, there weren't too many scenes that felt like they were dragging (just a very few).

We don't see why the little girl and the anti-hero feel a bond with each other, it really makes no sense. The girl is a super-genius and she has learnt to be super-cautious around the people she works with, yet she doesn't try to run away from him, and intuitively trusts him.

There is lots of violence, but it's stylized violence, and there isn't too much blood and gore. Perhaps why even action-flick hating spouses could like it.
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