The Brave One
2007 Directed by Neil Jordan
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How many wrongs to make it right?
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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I'm slowly realizing that Neil Jordan is one of my favorite directors. Not because he does anything truly amazing every time he gets behind the camera, but because he has some interesting ideas and usually fleshes them out into generally solid pictures. Take The Brave One as an example.
People claiming the film to be dull are probably those that really want revenge and blood and guts and fist pumping. Not a methodical character study that looks at the idea of the hollowness of the revenge emotion from a new and interesting angle. So yeah, if you want blowed-up real good, go watch Death Sentence or Death Wish. Sure Harry Brown is a fun picture, but it's just an old…
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It's like Taxi Driver, only instead of a psychopathic cab driver like Travis, it's prostitute Iris all grown up as a radio host.
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What I did learn here:
1. Never let your dog run loose in Central Park.
2. Good Policemen don't care if you've been in a coma for three weeks. You have to help them - they need something from you. Anything.
3. Stoner kids listen to Radiohead, R.E.M. and the Dixie Chicks.
4. Black thugs don't like Radiohead.
5. Stoner kids also put their names in their iPods to make it easier for the Police to find them after they got mugged.
6. If you need a gun, meet the Chinese guy in the alley. He will also tell you how to use it.
7. You shouldn't smoke. It will kill you.
8. Never forget the video tape.
9. New York is an organism.
10. After three weeks of coma make sure to get involved in a shootout in the supermarket around the corner and to get mugged by two black thugs on the subway as soon as possible. -
I'd watch Jodie Foster watch paint dry. She's fantastic.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A dark tale of dispair, urban crime and psycological pressure earned Jodie Foster a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Erica Bain, scarred and left injured from a random attack one night in Central Park that takes the life of her fiance and destroys her emotionally and mentally.
With nothing to lose she illegally purchases a gun from a criminal and sets about trying to track down her attackers and those who killed her lover in cold blood. As the film progresses, Erica finds the body count rising by her own trigger finger as she encounters petty thugs, pimps and drug dealers who try to intimidate her before she pulls the trigger in dispensing her own quick justice.
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“Die Fremde in Dir” ist ein packender Thriller. Der schockierende Überfall macht es dem Zuschauer dabei leicht, sich auf die Seite von Erica Bain zu stellen und ihre handeln nachzuvollziehen. Wenn das Gesetzt versagt, muss man eben selber das Gesetzt sein. Diesen Grundsatz lebt Erica Bain nach einigen Zweifeln in “Die Fremde in Dir”, dass allerdings nicht ohne innere Zweifel und schwere Zerrüttung. So schwer wie ihr Verlust auch ist, der Schritt der Selbstjustiz ist auch kein leichter!
Dass der Film funktioniert liegt dabei zu großen Teilen an Hauptdarstellerin Jodie Foster. Als Zuschauer hat man das Gefühl, dass sie die Rolle förmlich lebt. Foster taucht in die Rolle von Erica Bain förmlich ein. Sie transportiert die innere Zerrissenheit der Figur,…
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Jodie Foster is great as always. I found the encounter with Erica's tormentors at the end a tad unsatisfying, but it didn't ruin the rest of the movie.
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Rankka tarina kostosta ja moraalista.
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Jodie Foster does a great job in this film of vigilante justice and wrongdoing to avenge other wrongdoers. Action-packed and a well-written plot, I definitely recommend this flick.
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Watchable vigilante drama from a female perspective. The film has a measured performance by Jodie Foster (there is a danger of going over the top with this kind of material, but she doesn't).
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It's like Taxi Driver, only instead of a psychopathic cab driver like Travis, it's prostitute Iris all grown up as a radio host.
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What I did learn here:
1. Never let your dog run loose in Central Park.
2. Good Policemen don't care if you've been in a coma for three weeks. You have to help them - they need something from you. Anything.
3. Stoner kids listen to Radiohead, R.E.M. and the Dixie Chicks.
4. Black thugs don't like Radiohead.
5. Stoner kids also put their names in their iPods to make it easier for the Police to find them after they got mugged.
6. If you need a gun, meet the Chinese guy in the alley. He will also tell you how to use it.
7. You shouldn't smoke. It will kill you.
8. Never forget the video tape.
9. New York is an organism.
10. After three weeks of coma make sure to get involved in a shootout in the supermarket around the corner and to get mugged by two black thugs on the subway as soon as possible. -
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.