Safe (2012)

Jason Statham does what Jason Statham does best in “Safe,” an action thriller that has our hero playing a haunted, homeless, lonely ex-policeman having a bad day as he slices, punches, kicks, stomps, and shoots his way through 100 gangsters, thugs, loons, and dirty cops. No shit seriously, some 200 people die in this film as Statham’s Luke Wright vows to safe a girl (Catherine Chan) enslaved to Chinese mobsters for her mad math skills, the Russian mobsters who want what’s in that brain (one way or another), and the corrupt cops who work for the highest bidder. In short, everyone in New York, even the mayor, is out to kill Wright. Most Breitbart fans will understand this as normal. I mean, foreigners, right? Look, director/writer Boaz Yakin (“Remember the Titans” must have been a fluke) knows we are not in this for the brains, but the blood. And much blood is spilt. Untold gallons. In the real world, the National Guard would have been called in after the first civilian massacre. Much less the fifth. But not here. This realm belongs to Statham. Take it or leave it, or die... C+