No Safe Haven is entirely the "level" of movie you'd expect to see Wings Hauser in. That being said, this is a movie that really has it's moments of grandeur, unfortunately those moments are diluted by several moments of boring tedium - so be plenty prepared to take the good with the bad, but fret not, the good DOES outweigh the bad.On another casting matter, one that really does wonders for the movie is the inclusion of the late-great Robert Tessier, one of my all-time favorite's of the "That Guy" category. A distinctive and charismatic character actor, always playing tough guy roles, he really seems to be enjoying himself as a freelance arms-dealer; who runs a small-time scrapyard operation "Randy's Funk and Junk" on the side. But that's not until the middle of the movie where he comes in and enlivens the party.The basic plot goes as such, when Cletes Harris's (Wings Hauser) mother and brothers are brutally murdered by a drug cartel (NFL game-rigging and the loss of 3 million dollars being key plot points), once Clete has put the pieces together after an "RJ-47" (apparently some kind of extensive and amazingly detailed background check) is discretely carried out by a friend in high standing within the federal government. After that it's all in the name of revenge from there on out - save for a little nooky along the way.One thing you'll notice is that Clete is damnably diligent in tracking down each and every one of the murderers and is vengeful as hell when he does. In one particular encounter Clete, disguised as a room-service waiter, tracks down one of the killers and once inside the room, turns into a vengeful demon - in a bow-tie. The sequence of events goes as such: firstly he holds him at gun point, then punches him to the ground, then for some fireworks, he whips out a can of lighter fluid and empties the entire can onto the killer and then forcibly drags him onto a balcony, whips out his Zippo and sets him on fire, screaming in agony the killer-on-fire jumps from the balcony to his death ten stories below. A pretty "hard-edged" and lurid sequence, but were just getting started here, as that's only the first victim. Over the course of the next hour Wings and then later the ever-entertaining Robert Tessier joins in the fun and they proceed to assassinate an entire drug cartel and a certain treacherously, traitorous ex-girlfriend who has cartel ties. Their a ruthlessly efficient duo and the baddies, whether their in the US or south of the border, do not stand a chance against them. No Safe Haven is very much a taking-out-the-trash kind of movie, that I'm ever so so fond of. And though Wings Hauser may not be a big name like Eastwood, Bronson or Stallone, but he certainly DOES - Take Out The Trash.With what's obviously a meager budget, No Safe Haven does quite a bit with it, as the proceedings prove to be colorful and we find ourselves pinballing from one scenario to the next - from explosive speedboat chase's to sleazy backseat tryst's in stripclub parking lots to NFL prime-time game-day flashbacks to infiltrating a drug-lord's compound, which goes up in flames thanks to Clete's handiwork and for good measure they throw in a helicopter shoot em' up sequence to drive home the finale. At the end of it all Clete and Randy kill the bad-guy's, but, in a departure from the movie-formula DON'T get the girl. All in all No Safe Haven is hardly a great movie - but you can certainly do a lot worse. What I really like is how hardcore this movie is in it's most violent moments, watch for the "severed head trick" Clete pulls near the end - now that's using your, er, someones head. Plus I simply seem to like anything that Robert Tessier is in, from "Hard Times" to "The Deep" even terrible bottom-of-the-barrel dreck like David Carridine's "Future Force" has some inspired moments and let's not forget he show's up in one of the all-time best episodes of The A-Team - Robert Tessier (stuntman, actor and former para-trooper) had a colorful career. Lastly, judging by the looks of it, I'd wager that No Safe Haven was a direct-to-video release - but by no means does that mean you can't have fun with it.No Safe Haven feels like a mash-up of an Andy Sidaris movie and one of your more violent episodes of Miami Vice: drugs, guns and plenty of T & A.

When Hauser wants revenge, you're dead already. You just don't know it yet. Hauser is out to kill every member of a Columbian drug organization because they executed his mother & little brothers. So he's a man with a mission, fair enough. The action & killings in this film get pretty hilarious. At one point Hauser locks a bad guy out on the balcony. He sets him on fire and gives him the choice: burn up or jump off the building. Another baddie gets first blown up, then run over by a speedboat (with Hauser at the steering wheel, of course). One more gets hooked up to a helicopter (by Hauser, naturally) and hitches a ride before plunging to his inevitable death. Wonderful! You simply don't mess with the Hauser.

I always like a good revenge movie, which is why I rented "No Safe Haven", to see some good revenge. Indeed, the parts of the movie where Wings Hauser is executing his revenge are pretty good, but for some strange reason a lot of the running time is devoted to him fooling around with women and other activities that don't portray him as constantly working on his revenge plans. Also, after setting up one of the villains as a *great* bad guy (Branscombe Richmond gives a real memorable performance), the movie then forgets about him, only bringing him back a long time later for just a few minutes before completely disposing of him. Still, the movie does partially make up for that by introducing Robert Tessier's character, who is a charismatic ally of Hauser. Is the movie worth seeing? Yes, but I would recommend you only watch it when you are in an undemanding mood and can't find anything better to watch.

No safe haven was a typical revenge action movie,Wings Hauser in my opinion is highly underrated,he's one of the rare actors who can play both a hero and a villain convincingly,and he is the best thing in this movie aside from some truly nasty deaths,i like revenge movies because most of them are quite satisfying,i.e.the death wish movies,and this film was no exception,violent and better for it,a strange bondesque pre-credit sequence which hasn't really got anything to do with the plot was the oddest thing in the film,but worth at least one viewing if you like a good old-fashioned,action-packed b-movie.