Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is a CIA-turned-free agent looking to sell a document full of secrets to the highest bidder. He is being chased by a lot of bad guys so he temporarily gives himself up at the U.S. consulate in Cape Town, South Africa. The consulate turns him over to a CIA safe house, managed by newbie Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds), to be interrogated by former T-1000, Robert Patrick. The bad guys breach the house and mow down everyone but the two plucky leads, who escape.
Matt, desperately wanting to impress senior leadership, decides that he alone will be responsible for bringing in legendary turncoat Frost. Frost thinks that's cute and gives him the slip at a soccer game. Matt displays some critical thinking skills and tracks Frost down to a tenement where he is once again getting shot at by the bad guys. There's like a neverending stream of henchmen.
Anyway, Matt and Frost escape again and bond for a little bit, on their way to yet another safe house, mostly over who they think the mole could be. We, the viewers, knew who the mole was the minute a mole was announced because that's the kind of movie this is, but whatever. From there, it's mostly all climax and denouement so I won't spoil it for you.
I know it seems kind of lackluster as a review, but this really was a fun movie. Not a classic like Man on Fire, but better than Body of Lies by a long shot. Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds perform admirably, as always, and the supporting cast is star-studded. I was immensely curious to see Joel Kinnaman in a role (any role) since he's scheduled to play the new RoboCop and I had never heard of him before. According to his IMDb profile, he was in the American version of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo but I hated that movie so hard I may have blacked out at one point and missed him.
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