Safe House(세이프 하우스), 2012

감독: Daniel Espinosa

주연: Denzel Washington/Ryan Reynolds/Vera Farmiga/Brendan Gleeson

가장 뛰어난 CIA 요원이었던 토빈 프로스트(덴젤 워싱턴)는 10년 전 CIA 조직을 떠난 뒤 미국에서 가장 위험한 인물이다.

토빈 프로스트(덴젤 워싱턴)는 스스로 미영사관을 찾아와 CIA를 혼란스럽게 한다.

남아프리카공화국 케이프타운에 있는 세이프 하우스(안가)로 이송된 프로스트는 의욕 넘치는 신참 CIA 요원 매트 웨스턴(라이언 레이놀즈)을 만나게 된다.

거의 모든 요원을 죽인 용병이 안가를 공격하면 웨스턴은 프로스트와 함께 도망치며 웨스턴은 조직의 거대한 음모를 파악하며 미션을 접근하는 story.

In Cape Town, South Africa, ex-CIA NOC operative turned international criminal Tobin Frost acquires a data storage device from rogue MI6 agent Alec Wade. The pair is attacked by a team of mercenaries, who kill Wade and corner Frost, leaving him no choice but to surrender to the American consulate.

 

Frost is transferred to a local safe house maintained by "housekeeper" Matt Weston, a young agent on his first low-level CIA posting. The CIA sends in a team led by veteran agent Daniel Kiefer to interrogate Frost and bring him back to the US. Weston watches uneasily as Kiefer and his men waterboard Frost. When the power to the safe house is cut, the CIA team realise that they are in grave danger. The mercenaries and their leader, Vargas, attack the safe house, killing Kiefer and his team. Weston escapes, taking Frost as his charge. Weston makes contact with his superior, David Barlow, at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, along with Catherine Linklater, the operative in charge of Frost's interrogation and Kiefer's superior, and CIA Deputy Director Harlan Whitford, who is overseeing the operation. Linklater orders Weston to lay low and await further instructions.

 

Frost immediately begins to manipulate Weston, insisting that someone within the CIA gave away their location to the mercenaries and that Weston will be forced to take the fall if things go wrong. Barlow later tells Weston to go to Cape Town Stadium to retrieve a GPS device with the location of another nearby safe house. He retrieves the GPS at the stadium, but Frost creates a diversion and escapes by disguising himself as a policeman. Weston, detained by the police, escapes but is forced to fire at police when they attempt to arrest him again. He tries and fails to recapture Frost.

 

Weston contacts Langley and informs Barlow and the others of Frost's escape. Linklater orders him to visit the nearest American embassy for debriefing after hearing that Weston fired at the police. When Whitford tells him "we'll take it from here", Weston decides to pursue Frost himself.

 

Linklater and Barlow are instructed to go to South Africa in order to pursue Frost. En route, Linklater suggests that Weston has joined Frost, which Barlow denies. Weston tracks Frost to a shantytown in Langa, where Frost is meeting Carlos Villar, an old contact and document forger. Vargas and his team attack again, killing Villar along with his wife, but Frost eludes him and his men with Weston's help. Weston brutally interrogates one of Vargas' wounded mercenaries, who reveals that Vargas is working for the CIA, which is seeking to retrieve the storage device Frost received from Wade.

 

As they bandage their wounds, Frost tells the story of how he was forced to kill an air traffic controller while on a mission. He later learned that he was simply part of a plot to assassinate a whistle-blower who would expose wetwork committed by the CIA. Weston takes Frost to the new safe house, where Weston keeps the housekeeper, Keller at gunpoint, believing he no longer knows if he can trust the CIA.

 

Keller attacks and severely wounds Weston before he is killed. Frost reveals the device contains Israeli intelligence which includes details of corrupt officials and secret money transfers involving the CIA, MI6, and other intelligence agencies. Frost leaves Weston, who passes out from his wounds. Meanwhile, Linklater arrives in South Africa and informs Barlow of the device's existence, but not its contents. Barlow then kills her and travels to the safe house where he reveals that he is Vargas' employer. He confirms that the file contains incriminating evidence against him, and encourages Weston to lie about what has happened. Frost returns and kills Vargas and his men but is fatally shot by Barlow. Weston then shoots and kills Barlow. Frost gives Weston the file and tells Weston he is better than him before dying.

 

Back in the United States, Weston meets with Director Whitford, who informs Weston that unflattering facts about the CIA must be removed from his report, but that he will be promoted. He asks Weston about the file's location but Weston denies having been told about it by Frost. Whitford states that whoever has those files will have many enemies. Weston assures Whitford that he will "take it from here", visibly shaking Whitford, and leaves. He leaks the files to the media, incriminating personnel from many intelligence agencies, including Whitford.