Safe House

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

Critics landed squarely in the middle on Safe House, finding Washington and Reynolds likable enough but let down by a script that doesn't give them much to work with and action sequences that feel choppy and mechanical. Notably, audiences who saw it in theaters were considerably warmer than critics — a gap that suggests the film delivers more as a popcorn thriller than as anything that holds up to scrutiny.