New poster for Jason Statham’s movie Safe has popped up online. It’s a little different from the usual Stath posters, no hi-kicking, flashy explosions or “orange tint” – it does of course have a big gun (well it had to really) and he’s almost breaking that Cardinal Rule of poster design: “Never point the gun at the viewer”.
A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change…until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed. But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action…and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. — (C) Lionsgate
Safe opens in the UK on 11 May 2012 (although the poster seems to indicate otherwise)
