Film review: Safe House (four out of five stars)

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(15) 115mins

Director: Daniel Espinosa

Starring: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Brendan Gleeson

LET’S face it - when you see the name Denzel Washington on the cast list you can’t go far wrong.

He’s been in some great movies (American Gangster, Bone Collector) and has pretty much held some films together on his own (Deja Vu, The Book of Eli).

Safe House falls somewhere between the two - another solid performance in a pretty good movie.

Washington plays Tobin Frost, a rogue CIA agent who hands himself in to the American authorities in South Africa after being chased by gun-toting baddies.

Ryan Reynolds (Matt Weston) is the ‘housekeeper’ of a safe house where Frost is taken to. But those baddies don’t give up easily and soon Frost and Weston are on the run.

The movie falls somewhat into two parts, the first two-thirds having a decent plot full of action and not needing too much work from the cast.