Safe (2012 film)
Safe is a 2012 American action thriller film written and directed by Boaz Yakin, produced by Lawrence Bender, Dana Brunetti and Joseph Zolfo and starring Jason Statham, Chris Sarandon, Robert John Burke and James Hong. In the film, Luke Wright (Statham) is an ex-cop and former cage fighter who winds up protecting a gifted child being chased by the Russian mafia, Chinese Triads, and corrupt NYPD officers. Safe was released by Lionsgate Films on April 27, 2012, where it received mixed reviews from critics. The film grossed $40.6 million worldwide against a budget of $30 million. Plot Luke Wright is an ex-cop and cage fighter who unintentionally wins a fixed fight. Emile Docheski, who is the head of the Russian mafia, tells his son Vassily and his men to kill Wright's pregnant wife as punishment and then promise to kill anyone to whom he speaks regularly. Luke leaves his life behind, thus becoming a homeless tramp. Mei is young mathematical prodigy in China, who gets kidnapped by men working for Triad boss Han Jiao, who wishes to use Mei as a mental calculator to eliminate his criminal enterprise's traceable digital footprint. Han sends her to New York City, in the care of brutal gangster Quan Chang. One year later, Han arrives from China, asking Mei to memorize a long number. On the way to retrieve a second one, their vehicle is ambushed by the Russian mafia. Mei is taken to Emile, who demands the number, but she refuses. Before they can further interrogate her, they are interrupted by police sent by the corrupt Captain Wolf, who works for Han. Mei escapes during the confusion and is chased by the Russians to a nearby subway station, where Luke contemplates suicide. Recognizing Chemyakin as one of the men who killed his wife and seeing Mei's distress, Luke boards the train and kills Chemyakin and the other Russians. Mei flees at the next stop, only to be stopped by two corrupt detectives working for Wolf. Luke arrives and incapacitates them, thus convincing Mei of his good intentions before he also dispatches some Russians. Hiding in a hotel, Mei explains the number to Luke, who guesses that it is the code to a combination safe. However, Quan tracks Mei down through her cell phone and escapes with her during a diversion as Luke fights through Quan's men. Across town, Captain Wolf meets with Mayor Danny Tremello, who has learned that Luke is involved and cautions Wolf, explaining that Luke was not a regular cop, but a black ops hitman who was loaned by the government as a favor to Tremello by friends in the CIA shortly after 9/11, along with his former partner Alex Rosen. Luke and Alex assassinated several crime bosses as an effort to impose order and Luke quit after exposing Wolf's detective squad as dirty cops. Luke is living a life of exile as atonement for the things he did for the government. Using Chemyakin's phone, Luke sets up Vassily and