Film Review – Not Safe for Work

Director Joe Johnston is primarily known for major motion pictures. Previous movies include “The Rocketeer,” “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger.” He’s dabbled in low-fi cinema before with 1999’s “October Sky,” but “Not Safe for Work” feels like an intentional cleansing of big-budget habits. A brief, blunt exercise in thriller cinema, the feature is a mean but not entirely lean machine, though Johnston puts in a heroic effort trying to build tension inside a limited space, working with a script that bites off more than it can chew when it comes to comfortable passages of exposition. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com