“Safe” is an interesting action movie with some spectacular sequences. Unfortunately, it’s a little bloated with a few too many plot points that just didn’t need to be there. It’s still entertaining but some of the excess could have been trimmed just to keep things a little tighter.

In “Safe”, Jason Statham (“Transporter 2”, “Blitz”) plays ex-cop and ex-cage fighter Luke Wright, who is now living as a homeless man after angering members of the Russia mafia. Wright gets involved in battle involving the Russian mafia, the Triads and corrupt police over Mei (Catherine Chan), a young girl being used by criminal gangs for her incredible mathematical skills. With danger at every turn, Wright must find a way to protect the girl and neutralise the various threats.

Jason Statham is entertaining here but I do have some serious questions about his character. Why have him be an ex-cop and an ex-cage fighter? The whole cage fighting element could have been dropped as the gang could have been after him for something he did as a cop rather than because he accidentally won a fight he was meant to lose. The Mei character is quite interesting and you could have had a whole movie about a child using her mental skills to run a criminal gang’s finances. There are a lot of bad guys in this movie and some of them are reasonably enjoyable.

“Safe” is not a long movie but is just packed with different things going on. I liked the movie and thought a lot of the action sequences were terrific. I think the performance from Catherine Chan is also quite impressive. I recommend this movie for fans of Jason Statham but don’t go into expecting to see his finest work. Some of his simpler films such as “Crank” and “The Transporter” work much better.