“Safe House” (2025) starring Lucien Laviscount, Hannah John-Kamen, Ethan Embry, Lewis Tan and Holt McCallany / Z-View

Safe House (2025)

Director: Jamie Marshall

Screenplay: Leon Langford

Stars: Lucien Laviscount, Hannah John-Kamen, Ethan Embry, Lewis Tan, Adam Levy, Markina Brown, Brett Cullen, Lorenzo Orozco, Brian Van Holt and Holt McCallany.

Tagline: Betrayal is the ultimate weapon.

The Plot…

When a well planned terrorist attack takes out the Vice President’s motorcade, killing several government officials, secret service agents and civilians, a “shelter in place” order is initiated.  All government politicans and operatives are to get to the nearest secure location.  Choi, one of the secret service agents from the VP’s motorcade makes it to a nearby safe house.  Choi is in possession of the Vice President’s “football” which can access the US nuclear arsenal.

Choi isn’t the only one to make it to this safe house.  Agents Owens and Reeves from the Department of Defense, Agent Sorello from Homeland Security, Agent Halton from the CIA as well as the Safe House operator, Anderson are there.  That’s six people in lockdown.

Only problem is, before communications are blown, they learn that only five people should be there.  Tensions mount as more attacks take place.

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…

I’m a sucker for stories where a small group of strangers are thrown together in life or death situations and no one is sure of the right move.

Holt McCallany is always a great addition to any cast.

While Safe House suffers from a low budget, I enjoyed it. Safe House would have been a great second feature at a drive-in… if we still had drive-ins.

Safe House (2025) rates 3 of 5 stars.