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The Brave One
2007
Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Neil Jordan team up for this tense thriller about a woman who takes the law into her own hands. After her fiancé is killed and she is left for dead, Erica Bain (Foster) stalks the criminals who changed her life forever. Read more
| Starring | Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen |
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| Director | Neil Jordan |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
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The Brave One
Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Neil Jordan team up for this tense thriller about a woman who takes the law into her own hands. After her fiancé is killed and she is left for dead, Erica Bain (Foster) stalks the criminals who changed her life forever.
| Starring | Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen, Nicky Katt, Jane Adams, Zoe Kravitz, Larry Fessenden |
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| Director | Neil Jordan |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 57 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 57 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Feb 2008 Blu-ray: 11 Feb 2008 HD DVD: 03 Mar 2008 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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A walk in Central Park ends in intensive care for New York talk radio host Jodie Foster, and the morgue for her... read more on Time Out
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The Brave One
When talk radio DJ Erica Bain (Foster) and her fiancé (Andrews) are attacked she is sent into a coma. Awaking three weeks later she discovers that her fiancé died of his injuries. Unable to deal with her grief she buys an illegal gun and takes to dealing out vigilante justice, all while befriending the cop (Howard) working the vigilante case.
Even if The Brave One were a better than average film, hell even if it were a great one, I’d have trouble giving it a higher score than the one assigned at the end of this review. That is for one reason; it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen a film that was so out and out morally repugnant. But let’s save that for later.
On the plus side of things there is Jodie Foster. She really is one of the all time great actresses and though there are times (the godawful radio monologues) that she seems uncomfortable in Erica’s skin she does grow into the part and brings conviction and steel to a script that deserves so much less than she gives it. Much of Terence Howard’s performance is rather sleepy, but in his scenes with Foster he comes alive and they conjure a chemistry that is pretty compelling and should really have been exploited with the ending.
Sadly that’s pretty much all the good news. Otherwise this is at best a scattered revenge thriller with a protagonist lacking a clear agenda until the final few minutes of the film. The script is a series of contrivances, particularly when it comes to the way in which, after she wakes up, criminals seem to follow Erica around like a virus.
There’s nothing to care about here, Erica’s life before the attack isn’t filled in and her friends and colleagues barely feature (on that why use someone as enormously gifted as Jane Adams then give her just one, completely pointless, scene?) and so we lack a connection to her or a reason to engage with her.
It’s technically competent, but little more, there’s nothing inventive here from Jordan, nothing to suggest he’s doing more than taking the paycheque this time out.
Worse than anything else is the ending of the film. Throughout we are supposed to basically be on Erica’s side but the final few scenes so nakedly endorse what she does they could almost be called incitement. I very nearly walked out. And so it is that a not very good movie becomes one that ought to be actively denounced; as a movie it’s not good, morally it is filth. Avoid. -
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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excellent
very good film that i would recommend to anyone. i think it is one of jodies best performances..
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Jodie Foster film takes #1 at US box office
- 17 Sep 2007
New movie The Brave One starring actress Jodie Foster has taken the top spot in the US box office chart. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the thriller has proved to be a clear viewer favourite over the pond, taking $14 million (£7 million) over the weekend. The Brave One is a crime thriller starring Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster as the fiancee of murdered Naveen Andrews who looks to take lethal vengeance on the perpetrators of the crime. "The fact that Jodie Foster was in it... Read more
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