{"id":3504,"date":"2012-05-19T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2012-05-19T18:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T00:32:44","slug":"safe-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3504","title":{"rendered":"Safe (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually saw another movie the same day I saw <a title=\"My review of The Avengers (2012)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3499\" target=\"_blank\">The Avengers<\/a> (the first time), which is why I remember it even less. You know, not as good, plus just as long ago without a refresher. It&#8217;s not that <a title=\"She has the code. He is the key.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1656190\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safe<\/a> was bad, by any means. The truth is that Jason Statham has made an exceptionally good movie, full of non-stop action, with a likeably dark hero, a strong but nevertheless screwed person in danger, and scads of bad guys out to get them both. And he&#8217;s made this movie close to a dozen times now!<\/p>\n<p>In this particular case, the likeably dark hero is an alcoholic, down-trodden MMA fighter and the strong doomed person is a little girl with a photographic memory, and the scads of bad guys are Triads and the Russian Mafia and crooked cops all after a big payday that can be scrounged from what she&#8217;s seen lately. And then comes about 70 minutes of punching, kicking, shooting, and chasing. Enjoy!, if it&#8217;s the kind of thing you&#8217;re into.<\/p>\n<p>(You may be wondering if this would have been a longer, more thorough review if it had happened right after I watched. Answer: doubtful.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually saw another movie the same day I saw The Avengers (the first time), which is why I remember it even less. You know, not as good, plus just as long ago without a refresher. It&#8217;s not that Safe was bad, by any means. The truth is that Jason Statham has made an exceptionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,513],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}