Safe House released here in SA this last weekend, was well… what we expected it to be… there is tons of action and hectic chases, raining bullet fire and a side helping of a love story (purely there for producers benefit by the way, has no effect on movie story line at all but it’s required, and frankly played very well by both Ryan Reynolds and the new comer Vera Farmiga , so we let it be).

There are a few things that I thought were quite cool numero uno being it’s staged here in South Africa, predominately in Cape Town and Johannesburg and even filmed in our more raw style which I thought was quite cool. Ok our cops are not shown in the most intellectual light but seriously who are we kidding. There is a scene where they run through a township, and I do mean “through” as the shacks are being collapsed as the characters try jumping on the roofs and finding out their structural integrity is not exactly designed by civil engineers. They also drive/run through the city quite a bit so there is a good overall picture of our country not the usual Hollywood portrayal of Africa which leads my cousins abroad to seriously assume I ride a zebra to work…

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