Safe

The Stath is Luke Wright, a small time cage fighter who loses more fights than he wins, until his biggest mistake of all – winning a fight he was meant to lose! Killing his wife is only the beginning; the Russian mafia let him know that if he so much as speaks to anyone, they’re dead too. Spiralling into an endless world of loneliness, Wright is at the point where he can’t take it any more and wants to end it all…

But when he witnesses Mei (Catherine Chan), a frightened eleven-year-old Chinese girl being pursued by gangsters, Luke impulsively jumps to action and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei is a maths prodigy and possesses a priceless numerical code in her head that the Triads, Russian mafia, and all the crooked cops in New York will kill for! Is the Stath up to the challenge? Of course he is.

The latest film from the writer of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the producer of Hostel, Boaz Yakim has a colourful and varied history. Further developing the skills he learned from Prince of Persia of not just recording motion but imbuing it with unstinting energy, Safe has all the ass-kicking you know and love from the Stath.

Expect all you’ve come to expect from a quality Jason Statham film – inventive and spectacular violence, breakneck speed, and some memorable one-liners delivered in The Stath’s inimitable fashion. If you thought a kid in the film means The Stath’s gone soft, think again!

Natalie Tyldesley