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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0085391139294
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 5266
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 2007
Editorial Review:
Description:
'Why don‘t they stop me?' Erica Bain wonders. Bain, a popular N.Y radio host, watched her fiancé die and nearly lost her own life to a vicious, random attack. Now she discovers a stranger within herself, an armed wanderer in the urban night, out for vengeance and at war with her own soul. Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster, as Erica, joins Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, as a determined cop hot on her trail. Erica?s future is uncertain, but one thing is not: THE BRAVE ONE is a high- tension thriller that packs a visceral and emotional punch.
Amazon.com:
Neil Jordan's somber The Brave One is a lot of things. A reflective movie about a crime victim's sense of dislocation and isolation from her own life following a harrowing trauma, the film 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Get real. Read this please.
Just to add to what others thought about the film. I think its strange how for 30 years, nothing happens to the lady. Then all of a sudden, her husband is beaten to death and she dies for three weeks. The next 3 months she has instances where someone was going to kill her or harm her 3 times completely unrelated to her first encounter. WTF? She blowes them all away and walks! What is up with the sudden bad luck like that (or good luck too)? And the ending? Don't get me started. This movie is totally ... Read More
Rating:  - Satisfied
I was very pleased with the movie....it came packaged like new as advertised. Also I received it in just a few days...good service
Rating: - Tense and complicated story of a female vigilante
I didn't expect much from this 2007 film. But Jodie Forster was in it and she's such a fine actor that I love seeing her work on the screen. She's cast as a vigilante who takes out revenge on all the bad guys who come her way. The acting is so good, however, that I soon forgot that this was a formula film. Jodie Forster seems to actually live the psychological terror and helplessness that befall her after her fiance is brutally beaten to death as they walk their dog in Central Park. Yes, the bad ... Read More
Rating: - "The Bad One"
The premise of this movie is a good one: Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), a public radio essayist, and her fiance, David (Naveen Andrews), are violently attacked in Central Park one night by a couple of hoodlums. David doesn't survive, and Erica remains unconscious for weeks before finally reemerging in a new world where she finds herself completely alone. Afraid but determined never to be a victim again, Erica purchases a firearm illegally, and soon finds herself threatened by a man in a convenience store. ... Read More
Rating: - Slightly hokey, but overall well-worth a watch
To my surprise, I found myself quite entranced by this mystery movie of a traumatized woman who takes justice into her own hands.
I know there are plenty of vigilante movies out there, and to be perfectly honest this one doesn't do much that is original. We get the obligatory philosophical debate of the morality of killing thugs who deserve it, minus that crucial law step.
But mostly, this is a movie that impresses it self most by some impressive performances from its leads and ... Read More
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