I saw the movie Safe House recently and thought it was pretty cool (assuming you like conspiracies, car chases and people getting shot at). However, there was a confrontation with a bad guy that… well, the person who was watching the movie with me didn’t see exactly what happened. This blog entry is a spoiler, so you may want to skip reading it until you’ve seen the movie. Or if you’re not going to see it because you don’t like conspiracies, car chases and people getting shot at.
I remember watching the preview where it showed Denzel Washington standing in a hallway of a room and he shot down at the floor in a really menacing manner. At the end of the preview, Ryan Reynolds did the exact same thing: same hall, same shot, same menacing look. When I saw that before the movie came out, I thought it was an intimidation move that they used to scare each other—first Denzel was scary, then Ryan was showing that he wasn’t scared and would pop a cap in your ass, too.
As it turned out, Denzel was shooting the floor because he was killing a bad guy lying there who tried to kill him first. Then he pulled the trigger a couple more times. Badass move. Unless you’re the one who’s getting shot—it probably wouldn’t look as badass if you’re on the receiving end of those bullets.
Since the preview showed Ryan doing the same move, he would have been shooting someone on the floor, too. Another badass move. Except it wasn’t in the final cut of the movie. That made sense, really. He was the good guy, he was better than Denzel, he wouldn’t do something like that to a guy on the floor.
Here’s the problem: he only shot one person, the corrupt CIA agent. Everyone was dead before he could have gone into the hallway and taken the shot that was in the preview. Thus, when he pulled the trigger and shot that one person, the bullet hit the agent right in the… knee.
[Inserting obligatory twist on an Internet meme: “I used to be a CIA agent like you until I took a bullet to the knee.”]
Ryan was looking at the agent in the doorway (who was looking at Denzel to the left of the doorway). Ryan pulled the trigger, you could see a little poof where the bullet hit the agent in the knee, he cried out, then fell to the floor. That was it. There was a conversation between Denzel and Ryan, Ryan left the building, no more shooting. The corrupt CIA agent died by getting shot in the side of the knee. I swear to God, if he wasn’t already dead, he’d die of embarrassment because of that death.
I saw some soaps at TV where people fainted because they fell in a river and drown… to their ankles, someone who get drunk after they drink … one gulp of beer, and when I saw it … *poker face* “nothing to do here … *using Doraemon’s take koputa*”