Monday, 1 October 2012

Spoiler review on safehouse - Thriller

Safe house is an Action Thriller released on Feburary 10 2010 in America by Universal Pictures. The main character Tobin Frost is an international criminal who is has an important data storage device. He is arrested howver and has to surrened to the american consulate in South Afirca - Cape Town.
He is Transfered to a safe house where is held by the house keeper Matt Weston- the other main character- a low in sense of buisness hierachy agents.  There is an attack at the safehouse Weston manages to escape deciding to take Frost with him as he deosent have any other choice.

Frost is a dangerous criminal and throughout the film he is shown to killl a variety of different people in different ways- he is intelligent and knows how to keep himself distance from the american Consulates and any other form of police services and forces. 

The film keeps the audiene in constant suspense as they question Frosts faith to not kill Weston as he is looked upon by Weston as a threat- this determines the sucess fo the film as suspense is a key feature within a Thriller.

The film continues throughout with Frost and escaping and Weston manging to capture him again, with the data storage device still in mind. The device is revealed to contain details of the corrupt dealings of the CIA, MI6. througout the film they both try to kill eachother but an event or situatuion will stop this form happening. An unsuall relationship begins to form between Frost and weston. For example Frost has a gone by Weston's ear instead of shooting insdie his ear he shhts the wall next to it. This cause westons ear to bleed and he looses eharing for a while, however Frost does not kill him , but procedes this an warning. This begins to show also at the end of the film when Frost manages to escape the fight  to retrieve the file with the imformation about the  device. In doing so he abandons Wesoton who is  badly wounded in a fight and has passed out in the buliding. Howvever Frost surprisingly  returns to rescue Weston by killing Vargas and his men but is shot by Barlow. In this Weston shoots Barlow and kills him. Frost gives Weston the file and tells Weston that "he is better than him " He then dies.

Weston returns back to the U.S and meets with CIA Deputy Director Harlan Whitford, who tells Weston that some career destroying facts about the CIA must be removed from his report, but that he will be promoted. He then asks Weston if he knows of the files location or if he has it but weston Denies ever having it. This shows the unsual bond and relationship between frost and Weston and even htough forst is the protaganist the audicne appreciate this bionnd and relationship between them. Weston then leaves, and leaks the files to the media.

I rate this film with three stars- this is due to it keeping the audience in suspence through the intense action scenes and consant doubt in Frosts reliability and faith towards the chararcter of Weston.  However, the film lacked in relaxing scenes; scences that allowed the audience to relax from all the tension and suspencse as the majority of scenes were action. If a tension graph was reconsidered into the film i would of rated this film with four stars.
 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 





1 comment:

  1. L4 (B3)
    Very good effort - Well done! Very thorough report on a Thriller.
    To Improve:
    1. Embed the video clips/trailer to make it more presentable
    2. Arrange the 9 pictures into a 3x3 block like the art of the title website
    3. Its a review - how successful was it as a Thriller, and rate it

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