Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA rookie who is manning a safe house in Cape Town South Africa when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) the CIAs most wanted rogue agent is captured and taken to the safe house. During Frosts interrogation the safe house is overtaken by mercenaries who want Frost. Weston and Frost escape and must stay out of the gunmens sight until they can get to another safe house.
Review
It's an interesting albeit predictable action flick that's nothing special but delivers enough to make it worthwhile. It does feature what has to be the dumbest CIA operativeshandlers ever put on film. What transpires especially early will make most viewers say "why in the world didn't they just…" but getting past that means enjoying a film where Denzel Washington perfectly menaces and charms his way through every scene. Put just about anyone else in this role and the film would lose a lot. Ryan Reynolds was good enough and the rest of the stellar supporting cast is absolutely wasted. Again I found it interesting despite it being three repetitive acts of mindless turns highlighting that the government is pure evil and they apparently keeping hiring the same set of mindless goons who race around guns blazing everywhere with little effect or competence whatsoever. Also the camera work was AWFUL in terms of the overuse of the shaky cam.