In 'Safe House,' the new edge of your seat thriller opening Friday, Oscar winner Denzel Washington plays Tobin Frost, the CIA’s most dangerous traitor who bewilders the U.S. intelligence community when he voluntarily hands himself into their embassy in South Africa.
But complications arise when mercenaries attack the safe house where rookie Ryan Reynolds is holding Frost. After a shoot out he’s forced to help him escape and stay on the run long enough to uncover who wants them both dead.
 
It’s a gripping plot that asks thorny moral questions about the methods the U.S. has adopted to track and question detainees since 9/11. Water boarding, holding suspects without charge or trial and every other blatant abuse of international human rights rules are all front and center of this incredibly gripping film.
 
It’s because Safe House asks tough questions while keeping the action galloping at breakneck speed that it succeeds on all fronts. The moral murkiness of the rogue traitor (Washington) versus the idealistic rookie agent (Reynolds) is further amped up by the appearance of a totally compromised CIA bigwig played by Brendan Gleeson. It’s just the kind of role he gravitates to, he says.
 
“It’s quite easy at the stage of life that I’m at now to look around you and see all sorts of unworthy people gaining by your efforts, and you being left behind in general ways and then to starting to become disillusioned,” Gleeson tells the Irish Voice, explaining his compromised characters motivation.

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