November 11th, 2011 at 10:00 am by
Sheri

“You got some balls Luke.”
“Yeah, amazing I can even walk.”
Luke is Jason Statham so yeah…nuf said. The movie is Safe, directed by Boaz Yakin. We told you about this one way back in August when the first poster was released and then we got some stills at the beginning of September and I’ve been waiting with baited breath for this trailer ever since. Let’s just say it looks like Statham is back in top form after what some considered to be a lackluster outing in Killer Elite. (For the record I am not one of them. I liked it.)
The synopsis: A former elite agent takes on a two-tier mission: rescue a Chinese girl who's been abducted by the Triads, then use a safe combination to outwit the Russian Mafia, corrupt NYC officials, and the Triads themselves.
Well! Doesn’t that look like fun! Seriously I’m all for a good action movie with a great story, but I don't even care what it's about as long as 'The Stath' is involved and gets to be all…'Stath-y'. Do you? Didn't think so.
Written by the director Boaz Yakin (Fresh, A Price Above Rubies, Remember the Titans), Safe costars Chris Sarandon (score! He doesn't work nearly enough), James Hong, Robert John Burke and Anson Mount (AMC’s “Hell on Wheels”).
Here's the bad news. Lionsgate had originally scheduled this for a late October release, but it was just announced, due to their already packed fall slate (so packed they had to pass on domestic distribution of Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher to Relativity. Don’t get me started.), they are pushing it back to March 2, 2012. Well, at least it's not the dreaded January so they must still have some faith in it and just don't want it to get lost.