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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321902139296
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 11, 2008
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk:
Neil Jordan's somber The Brave One is reflective movie about a victim's sense of dislocation and isolation from her own life following a harrowing trauma, which will strike a chord with a lot of people who have known violence. The Brave One is also a provocative drama about the nature of justice, a theme explored endlessly in American movies that typically find law enforcement wanting. In Jordan's film, however, the conflict between instinctive vigilantism and legal protocols is approached with more deliberateness and complexity than usual. Finally, despite its seriousness of purpose, The Brave One, to a certain extent, is drearily tethered to the old atrocity-and-revenge genre, bumping along to the familiar, Death Wish-like rhythms of an avenger seeking successive conflicts with bad guys he or she can blow away.
Somewhat at cross-purposes, The Brave One stars Jodie Foster in a shattering performance as Erica Bain, a popular essayist on a public radio station in New York. In love and engaged to David (Naveen Andrews), a doctor, Erica and her fiancé are brutally attacked one night by a gang of thugs. David is killed but Erica survives, only to find herself a stranger in her own skin, facing down her fears by shooting violent criminals.
With the city riveted by her anonymous actions, Erica becomes an object of curiosity for a police detective (an excellent Terrence Howard) disillusioned by his own struggles to protect the innocent from truly evil men. Jordan's previous films (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto) resonate with The Brave One's most interesting angle, i.e., that each of us possesses a hidden element in our identities that comes out in extreme circumstances, making us wonder who we really are. It's all excellent food for thought, but the film squanders much of its significance by thrusting Erica into numerous, outlandish situations in which her only alternative is to put a bullet in a bad guy. The result is a smart film tediously structured like a disposable B movie. --Tom Keogh
Rating:
- Rent it, or buy it for the price of rental
I love foster's films(Contact, panic room,nim's island).So I could not work out how I missed this one.It's another really great film with her and the cast.worth a night in to see,But not one of her classics.for that reason i recomend renting it or buying it cheap.As it is a must see but after that it will only collect dust,unlike other films there is nothing you won't understand or miss the first time you watch it.
Rating: - Fantastic Thriller
Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) is a popular radio DJ but her life changes when she and her fiance David are attacked by a gang one night, Erica is in a coma for 3 weeks but David dies.
After the attack, Erica shuts down and becomes depressed and when she realises that the police are getting nowhere with the investigation, she buys a gun for protection fearing that the attackers will find her and kill her. While in a shop that night, a man comes in and guns down the cashier and Erica shoots ... Read More
Rating:
- A remake ? Perhaps a change of prospective
This film is not a remake of old Charles Bronson's "vigilante" movies, more politically correct with "a girl with the gun". Is a complex plot of vegeange, starting almost for a combination of events. But the final is an alternative approach, with a mix of love and ruthless by a police officer only apparently "smooth"
Rating:
- Familiar concept, but entertaining anyway
As someone old enough to remember DEATH WISH with Charles Bronson when it was released in c.1974 I couldn't help but think that this effort directed by Neil Jordan was rather too similar in concept. Way back then, Bronson's wife and daughter were assaulted leaving the wife dead and the daughter in a coma. Bronson then cruises the streets and parks of New York blasting nasty people to death.
In The Brave One, Erica Bain (Foster) is the victim herself, and her boyfriend is murdered, in Central ... Read More
Rating: - A film that is,nt really brave enough to follow it,s own convictions
Film's about vigilantism generally go one of two ways. They are either revel in the bad guys taking a pounding -which can be great fun- or they blur the moral boundaries between the villains and the (anti) hero so the audience questions the whole premise. The Brave One curiously attempts to straddle these two disparate approaches and ends up with a mixed message that not only might confuse the audience but definitely confuses one of it's main characters.
New York radio show host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) ... Read More
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The Brave One [2007]
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Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321902139296
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 11, 2008
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Related Items:
- Michael Clayton [2007]
- The Invasion [2007]
- The Kingdom [2007]
- American Gangster Extended Edition [2007]
- 3:10 To Yuma [2007]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk:
Neil Jordan's somber The Brave One is reflective movie about a victim's sense of dislocation and isolation from her own life following a harrowing trauma, which will strike a chord with a lot of people who have known violence. The Brave One is also a provocative drama about the nature of justice, a theme explored endlessly in American movies that typically find law enforcement wanting. In Jordan's film, however, the conflict between instinctive vigilantism and legal protocols is approached with more deliberateness and complexity than usual. Finally, despite its seriousness of purpose, The Brave One, to a certain extent, is drearily tethered to the old atrocity-and-revenge genre, bumping along to the familiar, Death Wish-like rhythms of an avenger seeking successive conflicts with bad guys he or she can blow away.
Somewhat at cross-purposes, The Brave One stars Jodie Foster in a shattering performance as Erica Bain, a popular essayist on a public radio station in New York. In love and engaged to David (Naveen Andrews), a doctor, Erica and her fiancé are brutally attacked one night by a gang of thugs. David is killed but Erica survives, only to find herself a stranger in her own skin, facing down her fears by shooting violent criminals.
With the city riveted by her anonymous actions, Erica becomes an object of curiosity for a police detective (an excellent Terrence Howard) disillusioned by his own struggles to protect the innocent from truly evil men. Jordan's previous films (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto) resonate with The Brave One's most interesting angle, i.e., that each of us possesses a hidden element in our identities that comes out in extreme circumstances, making us wonder who we really are. It's all excellent food for thought, but the film squanders much of its significance by thrusting Erica into numerous, outlandish situations in which her only alternative is to put a bullet in a bad guy. The result is a smart film tediously structured like a disposable B movie. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating:
Rating:
- Rent it, or buy it for the price of rentalI love foster's films(Contact, panic room,nim's island).So I could not work out how I missed this one.It's another really great film with her and the cast.worth a night in to see,But not one of her classics.for that reason i recomend renting it or buying it cheap.As it is a must see but after that it will only collect dust,unlike other films there is nothing you won't understand or miss the first time you watch it.
Rating:
- Fantastic Thriller Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) is a popular radio DJ but her life changes when she and her fiance David are attacked by a gang one night, Erica is in a coma for 3 weeks but David dies.
After the attack, Erica shuts down and becomes depressed and when she realises that the police are getting nowhere with the investigation, she buys a gun for protection fearing that the attackers will find her and kill her. While in a shop that night, a man comes in and guns down the cashier and Erica shoots ... Read More
Rating:
- A remake ? Perhaps a change of prospectiveThis film is not a remake of old Charles Bronson's "vigilante" movies, more politically correct with "a girl with the gun". Is a complex plot of vegeange, starting almost for a combination of events. But the final is an alternative approach, with a mix of love and ruthless by a police officer only apparently "smooth"
Rating:
- Familiar concept, but entertaining anywayAs someone old enough to remember DEATH WISH with Charles Bronson when it was released in c.1974 I couldn't help but think that this effort directed by Neil Jordan was rather too similar in concept. Way back then, Bronson's wife and daughter were assaulted leaving the wife dead and the daughter in a coma. Bronson then cruises the streets and parks of New York blasting nasty people to death.
In The Brave One, Erica Bain (Foster) is the victim herself, and her boyfriend is murdered, in Central ... Read More
Rating:
- A film that is,nt really brave enough to follow it,s own convictionsFilm's about vigilantism generally go one of two ways. They are either revel in the bad guys taking a pounding -which can be great fun- or they blur the moral boundaries between the villains and the (anti) hero so the audience questions the whole premise. The Brave One curiously attempts to straddle these two disparate approaches and ends up with a mixed message that not only might confuse the audience but definitely confuses one of it's main characters.
New York radio show host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
