Safe

This is a movie from 2012 starring Jason Statham. It could also have been called Save as Statham plays Luke Wright, ex cop, now living as a tramp because the Russian maffia threaten to kill everyone he talks with for more than 5 minutes. Finally ready to give up and throw himself in front of a subway train his path crosses with that of Mei, a little girl working for the Chinese maffia and on the run for the same Russian maffia. She saves Luke from suicide, he saves her from the mob. After this intro the movie becomes the (stereo)typical hard hitting action movie with Luke and Mei running from and fighting the Russian and Chinese maffia and corrupt NY police agents. All the scheming and double crossing helps to make the plot turns a little bit less predictive and the hysterics demonstrated by the mobsters is balanced by the cool of Mei and obviously Statham. And we are spared the obligatory love story between the hero and the damsel in distress that often seems to serve as moral justification for the excessively violent deaths awaiting the bad guys. Not bad per se but I found it difficult to connect to the characters so you end up not being completely immersed into the story and action.