Review of Safehouse

Retired FBI agent is caught up in a web of danger when his new life is put into the cross hairs of various parties who want a mini computer drive that out hero finds on the body of his ex-partner who turns up at his marina dead. Good but unremarkable action film moves along at a good pace and does what it does before getting off. Its like anyone of a hundred other low budget action films that are flooding the market, only its slightly better than a good portion of them. I like the film for what it is, a nice way to pass an really undemanding evening. I think I would have liked the film better had the casting been a little bit better. Its not that the performances are bad, they aren't, rather its that the actors are too young for what they are doing. Johnny Alonso as our hero is probably ten years too young to be an ex-FBI agent. He's fine doing his heroic stuff, he just doesn't carry the weight of an experienced agent. Worth a look on cable if nothing else.