Safe House

Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds face-off against each other in this often slick but overwrought thriller.

Washington plays Tobin Frost, a former CIA agent who turned against the agency. He picks up a pill-like microchip from a former MI6 agent in Cape Town. Frost is then hunted down and turns himself in at the US Consulate to get away from his assailants. Frost is led to a safe house, a facility to contain prisoners in transit, run by Matt Weston (Reynolds), a low-level agent who was expecting more James Bond style shenanigans at his work. At least he has an attractive French girlfriend (Ana Moreau) to spend time with.

The safe house is subsequently attacked, but Weston and Frost escape. Once outside, Frost does his best to escape from Weston, but Weston proves to be a hard man to shake. Meanwhile, the main man behind the attack is closing in on the two, seemingly trying to avoid the fate of a Wikileaks style revelations should the chip fall into the wrong hands.

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