Safe [Includes Digital Copy]

Director: Boaz Yakin, Chris Sarandon, James Hong, Robert John Burke, Jason Statham, Anson Mount, Lawrence Bender, Dana Brunetti

Overview

A suicidal New Jersey cage fighter protects a young Chinese math prodigy from Triads, Russian gangsters, and corrupt cops in this action thriller from producer Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction) and writer/director Boaz Yakin (Fresh, A Price Above Rubies). Ten-year-old Mei (Catherine Chan) is a genuine numbers wizard from Nanjing. Unfortunately, her unusual proficiency in mathematics has made her the target of Triad boss Han Jaio (James Hong), who abducts the young girl from her home and sends her to America to help keep his underhanded business dealings a well-guarded secret. Mei has the ability to store a virtual library of financial information in her head, and by having the young girl as his personal bookkeeper, Han is able to operate without fear of being implicated by a telling paper trail. Meanwhile, as Mei follows her new "father" Chang (Reggie Lee) on his many extortion outings, Luke Wright (Jason Statham) takes flight from the Russian mafia after botching a fixed fight and seeing his wife murdered in retribution. Mei's and Luke's fates collide, however, when, soon after Han Jiao makes the trip to America to give the young girl a secret number, the fallen fighter witnesses her fleeing from Russian gangsters just as he is about to take his own life. At that moment, Luke pulls himself back from the brink and decides to take action. But now Luke's death wish may come true sooner than he anticipated; not only are the Triads and the Russians determined to get that number by any means necessary, but corrupt NYPD captain Wolf (Robert John Burke) is hell-bent on beating them to it -- and has the power of the law on his side. As day turns to night, Luke realizes that his time is quickly running out. Perhaps if Luke can save Mei, he will have finally taken the first crucial steps down the road to redemption and toward a new life where he won't have to fight in order to survive.

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Product Details

Release Date:	09/04/2012
UPC:	0031398156246
Original Release:	2012
Rating:	R
Source:	Lions Gate
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Surround EX]
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	5,905

Special Features

Writer/Director Commentary; Cracking Safe; Criminal Battleground; The Art of the Gunfight; ; cc

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Catherine Chan	Mei
Jason Statham	Luke Wright
Robert John Burke	Capitaine Wolf
James Hong	Han Jiao
Chris Sarandon	Mayor Tremello
Anson Mount	Actor
Joseph Sikora	Actor
Igor Jijikine	Actor
Reggie Lee	Quan Chang
James Colby	Actor
Jack Gwaltney	Actor
Barry D. Bradford	Actor,Detective Benoit
Jay Giannone	Actor
James Tolbert III	Actor
Danni Lang	Actor
Julian Marzal	Actor
Scott Nicholson	Actor
Kathy Ann Zhang	Actor
Byron Zheng	Actor
Lyman Chen	Actor
Howie Brown	Actor
Nicolas Marti Salgado	Actor
Danny Hoch	Julius Barkow
Suzanne Savoy	Actor
Dan McCabe	Actor
John Wooten	Actor
Brian Anthony Wilson	Actor
Victor Pagan	Actor
Henry Kwan	Actor
Marvina Vinique	Actor
Jennifer Skyler	Actor
Kate Rogal	Actor
Tony Cheng	Actor
Dmitriy Kojevnikov	Actor
Oksana Lada	Actor
Al Kao	Actor
John Cenatiempo	Actor
Danny Shea	Actor,Actor
George G. Colucci	Actor
Matt Dellapina	Actor
Stephen Oyoung	Actor
Tim Carr	Actor
Daoud Heidami	Actor
Ben Sinclair	Actor
Oleg Ivanov	Actor
Zun Lin	Actor
Alexander Kogan	Actor
Laurence Covington	Actor
S?ndor T?csy	Emile Docheski
Mark Mothersbaugh	Composer
Matt O'Toole	Detective Lasky
Danni DanDan Gadigan	Ling
David Kammenos	Actor
Boaz Yakin	Actor
Igor Zhizhikin	Actor

Technical Credits

Boaz Yakin

Boaz Yakin	Screenwriter
Lawrence Bender	Producer
Dana Brunetti	Producer
Kevin Spacey	Executive Producer,Producer
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones	Executive Producer,Producer
Stuart Ford	Executive Producer,Producer
Deepak Nayar	Executive Producer,Producer
Douglas Aibel	Casting
J.J. Perry	Stunts
Brad Martin	Stunts
Chad Stahelski	Stunts,Second Unit Director
Kim Berner	Script Supervisor
Tom Nelson	Sound Mixer
Joseph Zolfo	Producer
Erika Abrams	Special Effects
Ron Bedrosian	Sound Effects
Patrick Cusack	Sound Effects
Drew Jiritano	Special Effects
John R. Woodward	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Safe
1. Backgrounds [4:42]
2. Passing The Test [2:07]
3. Luke's World Ends [3:07]
4. Learning The Business [4:05]
5. New Shoes [3:48]
6. The Number [2:55]
7. Kidnapped [3:22]
8. The Extent of the Corruption [5:20]
9. Subway Chase [6:02]
10. "Are You Crazy, Man?" [4:38]
11. A Nice Hotel [4:21]
12. Room 1012 [2:54]
13. Mass Exodus [6:02]
14. The Mayor [2:49]
15. Playing Their Parts [3:43]
16. Two Safes [2:54]
17. Getting The Band Back Together [5:03]
18. Walk In With Guns Blazing [3:51]
19. Safe Cracking [3:37]
20. One More Deal [2:17]
21. The Disk [3:05]
22. The Exchange [3:28]
23. Tying Up Loose Ends [2:45]
24. End Credits [7:23]

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Disc #1 -- Safe
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Cracking Safe
Criminal Battleground
The Art of the Gunfight
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Editorial Reviews

On the Jason Statham spectrum of bonkers action movies, Safe is not an exercise in pure craziness like The Transporter or Crank. But the picture is a solid, entertaining, well-paced popcorn flick with plenty of good action sequences and satisfying fight choreography. What's more, despite employing an easy-to-mess-up premise involving the most volatile of plot devices (i.e., a child), a film that never strives to be particularly artful or sophisticated still manages to avoid such annoying clichés as saccharine cuteness and smart-aleck one-liners. Statham plays Luke Wright, a former elite, badass NYC cop, who was ousted from the force and nearly killed for exposing that his corrupt comrades were playing both sides of a feud between the Russian and Chinese mafias. He's now the best-looking homeless guy in New York, and having lost his job, wife, and home, he's considering tossing himself in front of a subway train when he spies a ten-year-old Chinese girl ducking an intimidating collection of thugs who just happen to be speaking Russian. Before he knows it, Luke's MMA-style skills are all coming back to him as he rescues the girl from their clutches and embarks on a 1000-bullet mission all over the city, first in the name of protecting an innocent child, and as the plot unfolds, in the name of taking down both crime syndicates and the dirty cops who screwed him over in an ass-kicking expedition that goes all the way to the mayor's office. Director Boaz Yakin knows better than to think he's helming The Professional here. What he's got is a talented and charismatic action lead and a script that follows a proud tradition of enjoyable B-movie fare. What Yakin does with these materials is craft his film with the utmost competence and efficiency, never allowing the pacing to slow down, the mood to get campy, or the plot to get convoluted. Safe lives up to its name in more ways than the script alludes to, as the title refers not just to the elements of the story, but to what action fans looking for a night's entertainment can expect: a safe bet.