Safe House (2012)

CIA operative, Agent Matt Westing (Ryan Reynolds) has become bored and frustrated with the seemingly insignificance of his high-tech undercover job as Housekeeper of CIA’s Safe House – 7, which is cleverly hidden in a busy section of Capetown, South Africa… Matt’s twelve month boredom is about to end with the arrival of his new Top-Secret houseguest, CIA’s most dangerous Intelligence traitor, Tobin Frost (Danzel Washington).

Frost is an ex-Intelligence operative with an extremely impressive CIA background profile dating back to 1984. However, he went rogue and fell off the CIA Grid about 10 years ago and now he’s wanted for espionage on 4 continents. On Thursday, Tobin Frost bought a Top-Secret file containing incriminating evidence and then mysteriously surrendered himself to the American Consulate in South Africa where, for all intents and purposes, a special team of investigators have been assigned to take him to Safe House- 7 for interrogation before transferring him back to the United States.

Now it’s early Friday morning and Matt’s whole life is about to change because shortly after Frost’s arrival, a group of heavily armed thugs breached the safe house and killed the entire investigating team while attempting to extract Frost from CIA custody… Someone inside the agency tipped-off the thugs, but Matt was able to escape with Frost and now they’re on the run… CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA has denied them access to the US Consulate and ordered Matt to secure Frost and stay off the grid till further notice… Hours later Matt gets in contact with his superior, David Barlow (Brendon Gleeson) who directs him to an active sports arena where a locker containing a GPS device will then lead him to a new safe house… Barlow assures Matt that if he can get Frost to that safe house, a new team of investigators will arrive soon to takeover and at that point, he can write his own promotional ticket to wherever else he wants to go… A short while later Matt reaches the locker and obtains the GPS device but then loses Frost to local police officers just outside the stadium. Although Matt tries to explain that he is an American police officer and Frost is his murderous prisoner, both men are apprehended and Frost is taken to the infirmary… The locals attempt to verify Matt’s story as Frost overtakes officers in the infirmary and escapes; Matt also escapes but then shoots and kills an officer outside while trying to regain Frost... Now they’re both wanted fugitives… Meanwhile back at Headquarters in VA, the CIA is busy trying to fit bits and pieces of Intel together to figure out what kind of valuable information was recently leaked to Frost that would be worth killing so many CIA agents. And in the hopes of identifying a mole in the organization, an in-depth internal investigation is ordered for the leader and all members of the initial investigative team that was sent in to Safe House 7 to conduct Frost’s interrogation… Later, Matt contacts Barlow to report that he lost Frost; another superior orders Matt to stand down, proceed to the consulate and present himself for debriefing, and then the Deputy Director assures him that he’s done a fine job and they’ll take it from here… That statement immediately reminds Matt of something Frost told him this morning when he said, you know you’re screwed when somebody says, “Ya done a decent job son, we’ll take it from here.”…  Matt’s in trouble and now he realizes that Frost is his only key to salvation and survival. So he cuts ties with his girlfriend and sets off to find Tobin Frost because he knows that he can never return to the Consulate alone... And in the end, Matt proves to be the “better man” when an unsatisfying conversation forces him to seek justice, but this time he's the one that will “Take it from here.”