Alicia I love this movie so much

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

jb_campo I was looking for a movie where a down and outer overcomes the bad guys. I had heard of the Statham movies, but never watched one where he was the lone star. I had seen The Expendables, which was action hero overload. This movie was free on Prime, so I said, why not. The story line was pretty straight forward, with multiple warring factions, and Statham in the middle, having a history with all of them. Of course, he has some expert military past that is alluded to. As the story develops, he attempts to rescue himself by rescuing this little Chinese girl, Mei. Of course, this means a lot of people get killed and he does most of the killing. Statham has a pretty good screen presence, pretty cool. This movie reminded me a little of the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies, except Statham is physically much more powerful.If you want to see good kick the stuffing out of evil, with not much plot, and some exciting fighting, this will suit you fine. I wish Amazon would make other Statham movies free for Prime too - there's a very small choice at this point.

Python Hyena Safe (2012): Dir: Boaz Yakin / Cast: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Robert John Burke, James Hong, Chris Sarandon: Title references the physical structure where money is kept, as well as Jason Statham's state of physical disposition. He was involved in some bad business that ticked off the local police. His wife is murdered off screen and the sad thing is that some dialogue indicates that she was ugly. Had she been an on screen hottie we would be manipulated into feeling bad, but since she is supposedly ugly the scene where Statham submits himself lacks any care. Eventually Statham is out on the street and anyone he connects with is murdered. When he witnesses a distressed Asian girl at the subway, he saves her from abduction and spends the remainder of the film protecting her and kicking the living crap out of a bunch of thugs. Boaz Yakin previously made Remember the Titans and Uptown Girls so he can transcend any genre. Unfortunately his screenplays lack originality and this film is no different. Statham has an appealing presence that spurns a sense of humour. He survives this standard action fare but Catherine Chan as the girl sought after because of a code she has memorized, has all the personality of bathroom tiles. She displays no emotion and her dialogue is flat. We have wasted appearance by veteran actors such as Chris Sarandon and Robert John Burke who have both seen better days. There is no point to this nonsense other than to showcase Statham kicking ass. That is just as well because viewers will likely be kicking themselves for allowing themselves for putting down money for this crap. Score: 3 ½ / 10

slightlymad22 Jason Statham is in top form in this routine action flick, that combines elements of both "Leon: The Professional" and "Mercury Rising".Plot In A Paragraph: Luke Wright (Jason Statham) an ex-cop and former cage fighter winds up protecting a gifted child who is being chased by the Russian mafia, Chinese Triads, and corrupt New York City police.Statham does well enough, and is certainly improving as an actor. Whilst Catherine Chan does well in her role too. Sadly the same can not be said for most of the movies bad guys, who are simply awful actors, giving awful performances, another flaw is the movie is just too formulaic to set itself apart from any of action flick that has been released since the 1980's, the trouble with "Safe" is that you know where it's going every single step of the way.

Jackson Booth-Millard I just about remembered the title of this because of the leading actor in it, and this was rated reasonably well by critics as three out of five stars, so I was up for watching it, directed by Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans). Basically in China little girl Mei (Catherine Chan) is a maths genius is abducted by the Chinese Triads, their boss Han Jiao (James Hong) wants to use the memory skills of the young human computer, she is taken and cared by brutal gangster Quan Chang (Reggie Lee), and they travel to Chinatown in New York City. In the city is ex- cop and cage fighter Luke Wright (Jason Statham) who had his life destroyed after winning a fixed fight and accidentally killing his opponent, this angered Russian Mafia head Emile Docheski (Sándor Técsy) who sent his son Vassily (Joseph Sikora) to kill Luke's pregnant wife, and since then he has become an alcoholic homeless tramp with no direction in life. A year later, Han Jiao wants Mei to memorise a long numerical code which holds the key to something precious, soon though she is abducted from the Chinese mob by the Russian Mafia, but she manages to escape, and is now on the run from the Russians, corrupt cops from the NYPD and the Triads, but a cleaned up Luke notices her in trouble and protects her. Hiding in a hotel Mei explains the numerical code to Luke, he realises it is the combination to a safe, Quan manages to catch up with Mei using a tracking device and she is taken again, but Luke gets in contact with other mob types to kidnap Vassily, and he threatens Docheski unless he explains where the safe is and what is inside it. Docheski explains that the code is for a safe containing $30,000,000, there is also a second safe with unknown contents, needing a team to get to and crack the safe Luke recruits Captain Wolf (Robert John Burke) and his detectives, they agree Luke runs the show as he has also memorised the combination and they split the money between. The team manage to fight the numerous Triad gangsters and get to the safe, but as Luke is about to open Wolf tries to betray him, but he kills the remaining detectives and kidnaps Wolf, putting him in the boot of the car alongside Vassily. Mei is rescued after Luke bribes Alex Rosen (Anson Mount), who works for Mayor Tremello (Chris Sarandon), and who reveals the second safe belong to the mayor and contains a disc with data on his corrupt deals, while Alex kills Quan and his men, with Mei watching. Luke retrieves a copy of the disc, but he will not let Alex have it and suggests a fight for it, but before they can start Mei shoots and wounds Alex, with Luke finishing him off, he gives Wolf $50,000 and instructs him to return Vassily to his father, the rest of the money is sent to Han to buy Mei's freedom, he threatens his operations if he tries to get Mei back, Han leaves New York angered and Luke hides copies of the disc all over the city, Mei asks if they are finally safe, Luke says that they just take it one day at a time. Also starring Sándor Técsy as Emile Docheski, Igor Jijikine as Chemyakin, James Colby as Detective Mears, Matt O'Toole as Detective Lasky, Jack Gwaltney as Detective Reddick, Barry Bradford as Detective Benoit and Jay Giannone as Detective Kolfax. Statham does his usual deadpan hero as well as you'd expect, Chan is cute as the young brain box who needs his protection, I admit some of chatty sequences are a tiny bit complicated and slow the pace down a little, but the small heist element, martial arts fight sequences and chases make up for it, not a bad action thriller. Worth watching!