Safe Page #2

Synopsis: In China, the girl Mei is a genius that looks like a computer in numbers. She is abducted by the Chinese Triads and the boss Han Jiao ends Mei to Chinatown, in New York, to help him in the control of his activities. Meanwhile, the fighter Luke Wright has his life destroyed when he wins a fight against the will of the Russian Mafia and accidentally kills his opponent. The Russian mobsters kill his wife and the alcoholic Luke wanders on the streets and hostels with no objective in life. One day, Han Jiao asks Mei to memorize a long number and soon the Russian Mafia abducts the girl from the Chinese mobs. She escapes from the mobsters and is chased by the Russians; by the corrupt detectives from the NYPD; and by the Triads. When Luke sees the girl fleeing from the Russian mobs in the subway, he protects the girl and discovers that the number she had memorized is the combination of a safe where the Triads keep 30 million dollars. Luke is an elite agent and uses his skills to protect the gi
Director(s): Boaz Yakin
Production: Lionsgate Films
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
R
Year:
2012
94 min
$17,120,019
Website
1,731 Views


I heard them talking and ..

And your mother is gone

has died two weeks ago in a hospital

they weren't going to tell you

but I'm telling you this that you can

pray for her soul

Please don't say anything

-If they find out...

-I will not say anything

Thank you

wake up everyone

evacuation will begin at nine am

Please remove all personal belonging

So you want to tell us what happen?

Someone like his shoes

funny guy, do you think this a joke?

there's a lot of crack in your security

We were right here,

you could've said something

But you were busy sleeping

off this contraband, right?

Come to the shelter again

I am going to run your ass

back to the street

Mei, go to your room to remember

this number. I've remembered it.

Its very important this number, for your mom.

You have to be very careful, do you really remember it?

If she said she can remember the

password, then she can, I promise!

Ok ok..I am going to give you a very

important assignment...

Look where you going, man

you could get kick for that, okay

If you got no money,

you got to get out

I got the money

He doesn't have no money, look at him

Mr, I told you, if you don't have no money,

you'll have to leave, okay

Out of the line, people are waiting

Come on buddy, you got to go

Is this guy give you any trouble?

He's crazy officer, get him out of here

Alright come on, lets go

Hey you come on lets go, out

Lets go buddy, you want to be a clown

go join the circus not on my precinct,

you hear me?

I don't to see you around here anymore

Jesus christ

Look what the cat drag in

unbelievable

look at him

Look at him?

how about the smell

call the boys

Mei, this instruction will lead you to a person,

who will give you a new number.

Then remember that number, it will lead you to somewhere

else, there you will get the final instructions..

Are you comfortable?

Welcome back to the force

Mei, remember 10,000 and 20,000

I have faith in you...

I'm sorry I can't let them have you

Get back here

How your day Luke?

It starts a little lousy, but its looking up

Luke Wright, the big apple

hardest cop once upon a time

you always will take a shot

But you know what your real talent is?

You an igniter

You would've thought that us and the ruski

would ever be in a same page about anything

not me

Nice to see you rat

I always wanted to do this since

you open your big f***ing mouth

We've heard what Duzescy did to you

I had to laugh

We felt bad about Annie and all

he don't who she was with

When we you were back

we couldn't believe our f***ing ears

Why would you come back?

Why didn't you disappear somewhere far way?

Like the moon

I miss home

You're one of us Luke

We're a team

We're your family

then you threw us under the bus

We were the kings, you son-of-b*tch

Now we are bunch of god-damn circus

hey, hey, easy there

when you come back,

we figured you want to die

we got a pool going where you

going to end how and all

bus, train

I got my money on suicide by a cop

Come on, take it

take a shot, come on

Annie waiting for you

Question is, do you really think

she wants to see you again?

Actually, my real talent

is costing other people money

You ought to know that Lesky,

you're going to lose that bet

unless you want to shoot me at the back

wouldn't be your first time

Why don't you just end it?

What are you waiting for?

Do you want people around you to die?

What are you waiting for?

For the last time

Give me the numbers

You are a very brave girl

and clever

but do you know how we know exactly

what you can do, where you're

going to be and when

Someone told you

That's right

Can you guess who?

A friend

the one that told you about your poor mother

when the scum took you

from home would not

She's working for us with a smile

Mei, I've told them what they'd like to know,

then they gave me a handful of money.

If you did this, they will also help you.

You are a really silly woman!

In English

You don't know business, you gave them

what they want, now they will kill you.

I said speak in English

Well?

She wont tell me anything....

My father is a patient man

I am not

tell him what he wants to know

NYPD, open the door

What the hell

we got report of a disturbance

Someone ratted us out...

Hold your fire.

You can make it easy or

you can make it hard

Open the door of we come in by force

Bullshit, you come in here you blow

our feet first and step on my mother

Yeah they're in there captain

I don't the you looking for,

they're not cooperating

You better get down here

before thing go to hell

Negative, this is thick, go back

to the station and monitor the city

Alright we got a pit down,

you know what I want

We have a deal, get the girl

Alive if can, dead if you can't

We go in, Brooklyn state will

go up by 10% that's the new deal

Hold on, I got an incoming call

Emile, what's up?

Take your men off Wolf!

Whatever the Chinese offered

to you, I up it by 5%

Get her back here

bathroom

Alright Quan, I got the Russian

offered Brooklyn state by 7%

Surprise to say, so I don't

know what to tell you

I talked to my guy, they're

ready to go to war over this

you're going to be stuck between us

and the Russian fighting on two fronts, so...

You better think hard about this one

ten percent, both precinct, final offer

Hey Mac

Both this guys want that girl

and they are willing to pay

If she got it I want it

-So what's our plan?

-I got the Russian to drop

their guard either way

If she catches a bullet, I want

you to take out every last one

of those scumbags

Alright Emile, your offers good

I going to call my guys off

but only because I like you better

Bullshit, your a greedy bastard Wolf

I got the scent of something big and

you want all for yourself

but I had to pay something

before you send your men in

She's gone

Where is she going?

I mean she escapes, and all your

men out there, I can't follow her

I'm offering a truce

trust the Chinese then you'll

regret it as long as you live

Docheski

What does she have?

Do we a truce, Captain Wolf?

The girl is Chinese, 11 years old,

she speak Mandarin and English

If you were to find her and

bring her straight side street

She's headed for the subway

I don't know how they found out.

Really? You don't know?

You are an idiot indeed.

If the police or russians find the girl first,

I will take your head.

I will bring you their heads..

Sorry I

Lost my lock on a Russian

cell on Jay Street

Sound like they went into a subway station

You?

The garbage collector?

You're got bad information

I never collected

garbage, I dispose of it

Don't loose sleep, he had it coming

Are you alright?

-Get out, get out

-Moved

It's ok

Easy, easy ma'am, we're the police

everything's alright

What's your name, my dear

-This is her

-I don't know, they all look alike to me

-You got that picture?

-Yeah, let me see

Good New York City

missing somebody for years

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Boaz Yakin

Boaz Yakin (born June 20, 1966) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer based in New York City. He has penned the screenplays to films like The Rookie, A Price Above Rubies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Now You See Me, and has directed the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans and the 2012 Jason Statham action film Safe. As a producer he has collaborated frequently with filmmaker Eli Roth and served as executive producer for the first two entries in the Hostel franchise. more…

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