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Jason Statham, with his beady-eyed, I'll-die-harder-than-Bruce-Willis magnetism, has spent his career walking the line between being an accomplished A-list actor and a pitiless B-movie ruffian. Safe, his latest, is a perfect distillation of that...

Statham’s two-note acting range has matured, if only ever so slightly. He almost manages to express a hint of emotion when its called for. The ageless British actor plays Luke Wright, an ex-cop and mixed martial arts cage fighter at the end of his rope.

His Awesomeness, Jason Statham, has let it be known that he chooses his films based on the fight choreographer the producers hire. Often as not, that blows up in his face. Why else would the Human Bullet from Britain end up in dogs such as "War,"...

In Safe, Jason Statham stars as Luke Wright, a former NYPD cop turned cage fighter, whose world is shattered when a Russian mob kills his family and places him under (a very strange) mandate of living exile: the mob will watch Wright’s every step...

The latest in a long line of generic Jason Statham thrillers, Safe follows special-agent-turned-fighter Luke Wright (Statham) as he impulsively saves the life of a little girl (Catherine Chan's Mei) and subsequently finds himself drawn into a bloody...

I sometimes ask myself why I get a bit irritated to see Statham revolve around the same types of movies since his first Transporter movie. Took a while to convince myself that no matter what, the man entertains the hell out of me. I take back what I said.

‘Safe,” the new actioner starring the foot-flying force known as Jason Statham, can’t be called a distinguished film, unless you consider “12-year-old Chinese math genius” an inspired plot point. On the other hand, taken on its own genre-adhering...

A former cage fighter and sudden widower (Jason Statham) fends off battalions of corrupt New York cops and thugs both Russian and Chinese just to protect a little girl (Catherine Chan) who’s memorized a valuable code. Boring us with superfluous setup...

Considering he always does a competent, virtually identical combination of transporting and ass-kicking, Jason Statham never deserves blame for movies that routinely function as well as a construction crew that works blindfolded. Nor does the action...

You don’t sit down to watch a Statham film expecting a taut, dialogue-heavy, cerebral drama. You certainly have a reasonable idea of what to expect: violence, one liners, a probable bi-lingual bloodfest and The Stath in all his glory.

Oof. Having reviewed the last Jason Statham vehicle, The Mechanic, I was pretty sure I knew what I was in for with Safe, not to be confused with the Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington film Safe House. Safe, for its part, isn’t nearly as good a movie...

Jason Statham is no longer an actor. He's a brand, a beefed up icon of steely action who tends to rise above the ridiculous scripts he agrees on to become a buff human adrenal gland. He's the Hulk minus the massive roid rage outbursts, a model made...

When it comes to Jason Statham movies, you generally know what you're in for: a few gunfights, some fisticuffs and a handful of gruff, cheesy one-liners. And to say that Lionsgate's Safe is any different would be an utter fallacy.

“You’re a crazy man, but not so stupid,” says the kidnapped Chinese savant (Catherine Chen) tucked under Jason Statham’s meaty wing in Boaz Yakin’s Safe. She’s a numbers whiz with an eidetic memory to boot, reliable enough for a Triad boss to use her...

HOLLYWOOD’S Mr Stubble misfired twice last year – first in the unwarranted remake of The Mechanic and then in the ill-fated decision to star in The Killer Elite alongside Clive Owen and Robert De Niro.

There’s a weirdly wondrous moment at the beginning of Safe that’s probably one of the best visual approximations of 'squeezing blood from a stone' I can think of: Jason Statham, on his knees, crushed by the brutal murder of his wife and surrounded...

Safe Like a bullet to the head, this movie has no time for subtlety, charging through a series of violent shootouts that are strung together into one cacophonous, chaotic chase. It finally finds some humour in the final act, but by then it's too...

One does not walk into a Jason Statham movie expecting Shakespeare. Or even Woody Allen, for that matter. One walks into a Jason Statham movie expecting non stop wham bham action, and nothing more. After all, this is the man who heightened your...