Safe (2018, United Kingdom)
Original title: Harlan Coben’s Safe
family secretsmysterious disappearancepolice investigation
Running time: 50 minutes
Language: English
Safe 2018 British mystery film review
Doctor Tom Delaney recently became a widower, who now has to take care of his two teenage daughters. His wife died after a long illness, which brought a lot of tension within his family. His older daughter, 16-year-old Jenny, decides to attend of a party in a nearby house of a rich Marshall family. Their daughter, Sia Marshall, takes advantage of the absence of her parents and invites her friends. Soon the house is full of teenagers drinking alcohol and taking drugs. In the morning, Tom Delaney is slightly worried that Jenny is still not home, but little he knows that this day will start an avalanche of surprising discoveries. It looks like not only Jenny disappeared that night, but also her boyfriend, Chris Chahal. Soon, Tom learns from a CCTV that his best friend, Pete Mayfield, might have been the last person who saw Jenny before she vanished - it looks like he drove to the house where the party was taking part and gave her a ride.
TV series devised by American author Harlan Coben and kept in his original style of narration, although it was written mostly by Danny Brocklehurst. While it carries all of the hallmarks of Coben books, the series builds its atmosphere on the layers of bigger and smaller mysteries that are being removed with each of the discovery. While it works fine in most of the adaptation of Coben novels, this series seemed to get snowed under too many details being brought to the light and the fact that some of the subplots are shown from a perspective of different people, which makes the main plot of the series (searching for lost daughter) lose its impact on the whole show. It is still entertaining, but seemingly too complicated to keep the viewer interested from the beginning until the end.
Can you solve a mystery like this one?
Our rating |
6.8 / 10 |
Movie value |
6 / 10 |
Realism factor |
3 / 5 |
Adventure factor |
3 / 5 |
Story complexity |
5 / 5 |
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Cast of Safe
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as Tom Delaney | |
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as Sophie Mason | |
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as Pete Mayfield | |
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as Emma Castle | |
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as Jenny Delaney | |
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as Zoe Chahal |
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