The Brave One Reviews

Here we have the latest twist on Death Wish/ Ms 45 which gives us A List Actors like Oscar winner Jodie Foster and folks like Terrence Howard, Mary Steenburen and Nicky Katt, directed by The Crying Game's Neil Jordan.   I'm gonna call this one The Lame One. 

They could have made a worthwhile movie which makes this attempt all the more dissapointing.

THE BRAVE ONE wants to be controversial, intense and disturbing message movie.   Unfortunately it's annoying, insulting. and also far-fetched-and irresponsible to the point that you might roll your eyes with the illogical silliness of it all. ...

Then she and her fiance are brutally attacked. He's killed and she's in a coma for three weeks. She awakes to find that her fiance has been buried, and nothing is the same. Where once she felt safe, she now lives in fear.

She's driven to revenge and vigilantism. The police who hunt her assailant and her fiance's murderer now unknowingly hunt her as well,...

Anyone my age will remember the movie Deathwish and the sensation it caused. When The Brave One came out, there was the natural inclination to compare it to Deathwish, on account of the basic plot: a woman who is the victim of violent crime gets herself a gun and embarks on a streak of vigilantism. While there are similarities, the two movies are very different.

In The Brave One, Jodie Foster plays Erica Bain, a woman who makes her living by roaming the streets of NYC, recording sounds, and hosting a talk radio show about the sounds of the ever-changing city. She thinks she knows all there is to...

as suggested by my sound bite, the reason I watched this DVD was because Jodie Foster starred in it..she plays Erica Bain, a radio talk-show host who becomes a vigilante killer when she and her fiance are attacked by street muggers; the fiance dies and Erica is badly hurt and hospitalized..

Comparisons with the Charles Bronson movie "Death Wish" are inevitable..in fact this film does follow a very similar plot line..the difference being that there is much more interplay between Jodie's character and the police detective hunting her..Over the course of the film they develop a friendship which is...

From the time she first started in movies I have enjoyed watching Jodie Foster bring a vaiety of characters to life. When she is in a drama, a comedy, thriller, action movie or romance her characters are completely believable. For me watching her portray a victum of a brutal assult  was not only realistic but it hit very close to home. I too was a victum of a very brutal assult and like her I went through many of the same emotions. I could identify with much of what she went through, even wanting to kill the one who had done it to me. But that is where the similarity ends. I can understand and...