"Safe House" is a satisfactory movie that's capable of greatness. It suffers from a common lack of creative courage, terrified to leave the audience to interpretation for very long. What begins as an enigmatic actioner with a marvelous handle on pounding screen energy is slowly brought to its knees over the course of two hours, eventually sized down to a standard display of black hats and white hats, with a hefty helping of government conspiracy hogwash to aid easy digestion. "Safe House" is at its finest locked in pursuit, with the viewer handed morsels of information between scenes of men shooting at one another. Once it settles into explanation mode, the enterprise grinds to a halt, leaving two convincing performances from Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington to drag on to a point of total disinterest. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com