This thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. This is an excellent spellbinding spy thriller superbly portrayed by Patrick Stewart. Kimberly Williams as his patient and level-headed caretaker does an excellent job throughout, as does James Harlow (Marc) who is constantly coming up with new impressions of actors, everyone from Jim Nabors to Jimmy Stewart. Patrick Stewart is wonderful as a man who realizes he's going over the edge and fights every second to stave off dementia. Will Andi? Really fantastic film that keeps you absorbed and involved until the very end with lots of surprise action and humor, all leading up to a fantastic finale. So the question becomes - okay, he probably is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, but is he just paranoid or is someone really out to get him? Is any of this true? It's clear his daughter, her husband, and Mace's doctor don't believe him. Mace has this evidence on a server that will email it to every news outlet in the world unless it's reset with a new password every 24 hours. Michelmore has already had several people eliminated who knew too much, and Mace believes he is next. He tells her that he has enough evidence against his old boss at the DIA, Thomas Michelmore, who is running for President, to ruin his career. In order to allow him to stay at home, she hires a social worker, Andi Travers (Williams) to stay with him. It's clear to Michelle that her father needs round the clock care, as he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He periodically schedules "drills" which includes such things as attacks on his home where a masked man (actually his friend Marc) uses his maid as a human shield. His doctor (Elizondo) prescribes medication for him that he won't take. When he goes out in the car with his daughter Michelle (Joy Kilpatrick), he is heavily disguised and lying on the floor in the back seat. In his bed is a dummy version of him, while he sleeps in another area he has a room full of computer monitors which track what's happening on his property, monitors conversations, and he seems to always be signing into something top secret. Now retired, he lives as if he is about to be killed any second. Stewart plays Mace Sowell, a former operative for the DIA (not CIA as he's quick to point out) - the Defense Intelligence Agency. "Safe House" from 1998 stars Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams, and Hector Elizondo. I recommend this to fans of thrillers, especially fans that are fond of conspiracy theories and paranoia in thrillers. All in all, a great thriller about paranoia. The consistent paranoia, the various intense scenes that are easily explained once they're over, the overall mood of the film, it all leads up to an exciting climax that only few will be able to figure out until it happens. The acting is great, both by Patrick Stewart and Kimberly Williams. The film delivers a great sense of paranoia all the way through. The plot is great, the idea is quite original, and the movie moves along at a great pace every scene has some development in the plot, and often it also has some great humor. Meanwhile, he also discovers that he's slowly developing Alzheimer's Disease, which only makes things worse. He regularly runs 'drills' in order to keep himself prepared for any direct strike on his house. His daughter doesn't think that he is in danger, instead, she just thinks he's getting senile, or maybe he's just paranoid. Mace Sowell, an ex-military officer from a covert operations team no one knows about, is confined to his home, because he fears for his life. When you think you're being watched, your every move being documented, your every action recorded and analyzed.
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