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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirSafe is both a slavish imitation of cinema gone by and a movie for our time. I found it wickedly entertaining and perversely refreshing in its total lack of contemporary piety.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceA preposterously enjoyable - or enjoyably preposterous - action-thriller.
- 70Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzStatham probably isn't going to be doing Shakespeare anytime soon. But everybody ought to be good at something, and when it comes to this kind of thing, Statham is very good, indeed.
- 63Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerSafe's primary contribution to the burgeoning Jason-Statham-kicks-everyone's-ass subgenre is setting three of its set pieces in crowded New York City venues (a subway car, a hotel dining room, and a Chinatown nightclub) where shootouts lead to believable mass-exodus pandemonium.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichYou can't help feeling that an initially adventurous movie has had its rough edges sanded away.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanSafe has more action than intrigue (or logic), and it's boilerplate vicious. It may satisfy Statham's fans, but they - like he - would do well to enlarge their expectations.
- 50VarietyBrian LowryVarietyBrian LowryWhat starts out crisp and promising gives way to a conventional shoot-'em-up in Safe, a fast-paced but extremely familiar vehicle for Jason Statham, who can only carry the material so far on his brawny shoulders.
- Though Safe initially seems a little darker and more thoughtful than the British star's previous comic-book escapades in "Death Race," "The Expendables" or the "Transporter" trilogy, it ultimately reverts to testosterone-heavy formula.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovEnough already with the pointless gun battles that litter Safe like spent syringes in a shooting gallery. No matter how spastically you edit them, you'll never top John Woo's early work, or, for that matter, Sam Peckinpah's. Aim higher, even if it means fewer hits.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSafe arrives filled with bombast and sneers but barely any thrills.