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The Brave One

Village Roadshow Pictures

Silver Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

Italiano

Jodie Foster

Terrence Howard

Nicky Katt

Naveen Andrews

Mary Steenburgen

Ene Oloja

Luis Da Silva, Jr.

Blaze Foster

Rafael Sardina

Zoë Kravitz

Gordon MacDonald

John Magaro

Jane Adams

Victor Colicchio

Jermel Howard

Dennis L.A. White

Laila Liliana Garro

James Biberi

Brian Delate

Lenny Venito

Carmen Ejogo

Dana Eskelson

Angel Sing

Yolande Bavan

Ivo Velon

Tina Sloan

Jamie Tirelli

Larry Fessenden

An Nguyen

Brian Tarantina

Michael Anthony Williams

Jesus Ruiz

Hope Adams

Joseph Melendez

Ted Neustadt

Brett Berg

Jeffrey Manko

Mick Cunningham

Lisa Joyce

Tom Greer

David Naizir

Bob McClure

Tashya Valdevit

Lai-Si Fernandez

Moisés Acevedo

Dennis Leonard Johnson

Jack Caruso

Jim Taylor McNickle

Rosanne Lucarelli

Leif Riddell

DeShaun Stallworth

Michael J. Burg

Creighton James

Clayton Dean Smith

Barbara Gayle

Anna Margaret Hollyman

Lily Mercer

Musto Pelinkovicci

Dean Meminger

Cheryl Wills

David Boston

Dominick Cicco

Vanessa DeMira

Rick Derby

Joe Remy Dolinsky

Doug Ferony

Renee Fishman

Roy William Gardner

Chuck Gerena

Bianca Giancoli

Kalon Jackson

Tina King

Tia Latrell

Isaac Orlando

Adam S. Phillips

Alfredo Romeo Suarez

Donna Ross

Kenny Shapiro

Alia Tarraf

Roderick Taylor

Bruce A. Taylor

Cynthia Mort

Joel Silver

Neil Jordan

Susan Downey

Philippe Rousselot

Tony Lawson

Laura Rosenthal

Catherine Marie Thomas

Aaron Auch

Bruce Berman

Herb Gains

David Gambino

Dana Goldberg

Kristi Zea

Robert Guerra

Lydia Marks

Kelly Gleason

Steven Ritzi

Philip Stockton

Sara Flamm

Claire Kirk

Darrell K. Keister

Marion Kolsby

Edward Pisoni

Joseph A. Alfieri Jr.

Robert Topol

Dave Weinman

Allan Zaleski

Tom Fleischman

Jeff Brink

Glenn Allen

Richard Friedlander

Eric J. Robertson

Neal Norton

Abbot Genser

Rico Omega Alston

Ghilaine Bouadana

Cara Borrelli

Jill Merritt

John Scott Cook

Michael Connell

Mary Cybulski

Frances Fiore

Robert T. Striem

Chick Bernhard

Peter Epstein

Jeremy Fry

Chris Barnes

Bobby Beckles

Darren Cerullo

Jared Burke

Bob Colletti

Blaise Corrigan

Wayne Cerullo

Vince Cupone

Douglas Crosby

Roy Farfel

Henry Kingi Jr.

Jeffrey Lee Gibson

Dave Pope

Stephen A. Pope

David S. Lomax

Mike Rufino

Jill Stokesberry

Chad Knorr

Chrissy Weathersby Ball

Joe Renz

Hans Raith

Gine Lui

Dario Marianelli

John Cenatiempo

Jill Brown

Suzy Mazzarese-Allison

Jerry DeCarlo

Frances Mathias

Marjorie Durand

Kyra Panchenko

Mickey Carleton

Rachel Leek

Laura Downing

Eric Dean

Josephine Shokrian

James Klotsas

Anthony Munafo

Gus Papadopoulos

Edward J. Johnson

Peter Bulavinetz

Michael Saccio

Eric Lewin

Brian Mannain

Denis Zack

Julio Daniel Rodriguez

Bear Davies

Joseph 'Joby' DeLuca

Kalina Ivanov

There is no going back, to that other person, that other place. This thing, this stranger, she is all you are now.

Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) survives a vicious subway attack that saw her intended husband killed. Unsatisfied with the police efforts to catch the killers, and submerged by grief, she decides to take matters into her own hands and clear the streets of criminal vermin...

Well there's no getting away from it, this is basically a feminist version of Death Wish. Director Neil Jordan pitches the always great Foster right into the moral quagmire of vigilante justice. This is a smart and provocative vigilante thriller at the core, yet the preposterous machinations on show render it somewhat annoying - none more so than with the finale which is just ridiculous.

Erica takes up a gun, it becomes her comfort blanket, and as she battles with self loathing of what she is doing, she amazingly starts ridding the streets of scumbags. We are also asked to swallow that she becomes very tight to the lead detective investigating the vigilante crimes, played by Terence Howard (superb).

Unfortunately, Jordan seems to run out of guts to follow through in creating something worth saying. Instead pitching Erica in increasingly daft situations, with dialogue to match, for a film with a lady lead kicking butt, the whole thing actually lacks balls. The lead actors ensure it's no stinker, and who doesn't feel a punch the air moment in them as scumbag criminals gets what's due? But really it's an above average vigilante film at best. 6/10

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