The mercenaries, led by Vargas, attack the safe house and kill Kiefer and his team. Weston watches uneasily as Kiefer's team waterboards Frost. Frost flees and, out of options, surrenders to the American consulate.Ī team led by veteran Daniel Kiefer transfers Frost to Weston's safe house in order to interrogate him for intelligence before he is returned to the US. A team of mercenaries attacks them and kills Wade. Barlow promises to revisit the issue in a few months.Įlsewhere in Cape Town, ex-CIA NOC operative turned international criminal Tobin Frost acquires a data storage device from rogue MI6 officer Alec Wade. Barlow tells him he is likely underqualified for the position, which frustrates Matt as he has not had a 'houseguest' during his year long tenure, and thus has been unable to gain field experience. He calls his mentor and immediate superior, David Barlow, and inquires about a station in Paris, where he hopes to follow his live-in girlfriend Ana, a young French physician about to start her residency. In Cape Town, South Africa, junior CIA officer Matt Weston is serving as a 'housekeeper', an operative in charge of securing and maintaining a local CIA safe house in case of an operation. Nevertheless, Safe House was a commercial success, earning $208 million worldwide against an $85 million budget. The film earned mixed reviews, with praise for Washington and Reynolds' performances, but negative criticisms for the screenplay and the editing of the action scenes. theaters on February 10, 2012, by Universal Pictures. The film premiered in New York City on February 7, 2012, and was released in U.S. Filming took place on location in Cape Town. Safe House was Espinosa's first English-language film. Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Rubén Blades, Nora Arnezeder and Robert Patrick co-star. As the team of killers, who seem to be one step ahead of the pair, track them throughout Cape Town, Weston wonders who to trust. When the safe house is attacked by mercenaries, Weston flees with Frost in his charge. The film follows Matt Weston (Reynolds), a CIA officer on a low-level posting in Cape Town, South Africa, who is in charge of a safe house where the CIA is interrogating Tobin Frost (Washington), a veteran operative accused of betraying the agency. Services are free and confidential and available to all persons regardless of ethnicity, education level, economic status, sexual orientation, immigration status, geographic location, spiritual beliefs, physical or mental ability, or criminal status.Safe House is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by David Guggenheim, and starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.

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