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MOVIE REVIEW

Jason Statham action-thriller plays it ‘Safe’

By Tom Russo

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 28, 2012

*1/2 Safe Jason Statham plays a broken man given reason to live by a young math prodigy (newcomer Catherine Chan) pursued by Chinese gangsters, their Russian rivals, and corrupt New York cops. Filmmaker Boaz Yakin (“Remember the Titans’’) manages his many chaotically moving parts mostly as intended, but fails to coax out the emotion he’s seeking from Statham and Chan. In English and subtitled Mandarin and Russian. (94 min., R) (Tom Russo)

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