The mechanics make sense, what's going on fits within the confines of the narrative structure, making what's going on within both surprisingly fun and shockingly engaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2012

Like so many action films these days the film is over-edited and under-plotted, and we've seen Statham's tough guy character many times before.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 10, 2012

It's the imposing Statham's badass grimace and combat acumen that primarily elevate Safe above your average direct-to-video genre work

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2012

It's tough delivering an action performance with heart. Statham's cracked it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

In a film whose pleasures are mostly confined to the sound of guns being assembled at speed and bad dialogue being delivered with glee, polish is beside the point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

Profoundly trashy and violent, Safe clatters along with a thrilling seat-of-its-pants propulsiveness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

Only half as dumb as it kids on, Safe is still a cut above the average actioner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

The occasional efficient action sequence means that 'Safe' never gets truly dull, but even Statham aficionados might feel short- changed by this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2012

The thoroughly mediocre Safe provides little more than an excuse for Statham to do what Statham does better than anyone else: look stern while punishing bad guys. That's just not enough.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Apr 30, 2012

A rough, exhausting, exhilarating action picture with a payoff which would have delighted Sam Fuller or Howard Hawks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2012

It's like another "Transporter'' installment trying to be something slightly more - and not quite delivering the goods.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 28, 2012

Despite some impressively gritty street-level action, Safe plays it far too safe.

| Apr 27, 2012

It's hard to swallow Statham, who spent the Crank movies supercharging his last minutes of life, as a suicidal sad-sack, just as it's painful to see him yoked to a cute little girl in an obvious attempt to soften his image.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 27, 2012

The plot first strains and then assassinates credulity, while Yakin's handling of the action/mayhem runs the gamut from the merely dull to what-the-hell's-going-on.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 27, 2012

This whip-smart, brutally funny and gleefully nasty film is one of the year's best surprises.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2012

There are zero surprises, but it looks good, moves well through a trim running time and wields its clichs with defiant aplomb.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2012

It never feels like more than a second-tier video game brought to life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 27, 2012

Barrels through clich after clich and hurdles from borough to borough with a welcome abandon for logic, morality, and mortality alike.

| Apr 27, 2012

For better or worse 'Safe' has some plot-twists that are absolutely preposterous, but restraint is hardly the name of the game for this sort of thing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 26, 2012

Yakin's slick direction, marked by quick cuts, unstinting energy and a lack of sentimentality, makes the action scenes satisfying. But he's a better director than writer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2012