I hate to say it, but when a movie stars Jason Statham, you can pretty much know what to expect. Not that the action star isn’t one of the best (the Crank movies are still some of my favorites), but the films he leads can be a little formulaic. Take the upcoming Safe, for example.
Safe features Statham as a New York cage fighter (with an English accent?) who witnesses the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl. After rescuing her, he discovers that the girl has memorized a code that the Triads, the Russian Mafia, and corrupt New York officials all want. Directed by Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), the film also stars Anson Mount (In her Shoes), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night), Reggie Lee (Drag me to Hell) and James Hong (you’ll recognize him).
Sounds a bit like every Statham movie, no? Still, the newly released poster below is really cool. [Collider]
Check out the trailer below if you missed it.
Official Synopsis:
A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change…until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed.
But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action…and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei, he discovers, is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a “counter.” He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for.
Realizing he’s the only person Mei can trust, Luke tears a swath through the city’s brutal underworld to save an innocent girl’s life…and perhaps even redeem his own.
Safe hits theaters April 27th, 2012.
How can Safe hope to break the action mold?