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The Brave One (2007)

September. 14,2007
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6.7
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R
| Drama Thriller Crime
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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

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AniInterview
2007/09/14

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Stevecorp
2007/09/15

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Chirphymium
2007/09/16

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2007/09/17

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Ersbel Oraph
2007/09/18

Drama for drama's sake.Very predictable. Maybe you can't see the ending, but surely you will know what goes next. So no thriller there.And it is slow. Maybe for the producer that meant moody. But everything goes in slow motion making the two hours absurd. A lot more could have been said in 90 minutes.The story is badly done. And the characters have to speak their thoughts so it would make some sense.And the stereotype is disgusting. The blind and destructive force a woman can be when she is left unmarried. The violent black thugs dressed in new sports gear - they have to steal to dress in those expensive branded clothing. The Asian guy selling the gun who is Asian because it's Chinatown.And everything has to happen in the same small area and about the same hour so we get the same detective. Who has probably seen the movie because he already knows it's the same person.And the main idea? The laws are there to hinder the good in their quest for justice. Right? A film for the hysterical white middle class behind iron doors. The victims are white. Sure, the policeman is the token black so nobody can accuse the producers of racism.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

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Renaud P
2007/09/19

First, a very well made movie, beautiful photo made by a very experienced french director, with some shooting high vertically. Secondly, the story itself, for me,very different from "Death wish". Different because of what the end of "The Brave One" raises more precisely such issues as what would be the best choice: to trust justice and institutions or to do oneself the job ? In "Death wish", it's overall, what Ch.Bronson does, make falling aggression statistics,so: why not; and he seems "to like" acting this way. Jodie Foster, on the contrary, seems to be shared between a revenge and the consciousness that she has not the right to kill a man, to do her own justice. To finish, she proves again that she's still a very good actress; too much seen in France these years. Cdly,

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juneebuggy
2007/09/20

I liked this one a lot. Its a revenge thriller or remake I suppose of the Charles Bronson's Death Wish series of the 70's. Jodie Foster takes the lead here and I enjoyed seeing a woman in the role of vigilante, refusing to be a victim and fighting back.Foster can be a bit much at times but she was perfect for this role setting out on a mission of revenge after a brutal attack (it's really rough) leaves her fiancé dead and 'Erica' unable to move past the tragedy. Eventually she buys a gun and begins prowling the city streets at night to track down the men she holds responsible. Foster does a good job here with the conflicted emotions and I have to admit to yelling "yes" a couple times after she smoked one of the bad guys.I also really enjoyed Terence Howard's detective character, the cat and mouse game between him and Foster is well done and suspenseful. Naveen Andrews has a small role here as the boyfriend, and the ending with the dog, jeez for some reason that almost had me in tears. It's the dogs that seem to get me every time. 03.13

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stormwings
2007/09/21

... can cross that line. Said to all who forgot it or like do deny.What remains when happiness disappears and you're willing not to fake yourself but then faking yourself with shootings in which 'the others' die instantly without a scream and your gun is always loaded?I once held a drawn bow in my hand and know how a loaded weapon changes the feeling of the own body. Jodie Foster knows it and although she had inscribed her face to a character who makes use of the light trigger she always makes clear that this is not the only way. The movie shows full respect from different views to this fundamental issue by leaving enough silence to become aware about the movie in spectator's brain.The story seems only like a muzzy frame disintegrating itself when ever it is possible while "making a movie".Every single human being has to figure out how to live with fear - how to live at all, even "with a grudge". That's hard, yes.What can happen when some of the best meet and do their best to make art out of a "kind-of-standard-topic" using the financial power, knowledge and the equipment of the worlds most famous entertainment industries? You can see it when watching "The Brave One". The story disappears more and more every time I watch this magnificent work, but what I see still grips me tight and I feel my face getting wet. Mostly silent. Listen to Jodie Foster's voice during the 2 minutes (from the last caller on) when the first of her shots is heard again and Erica leaves the studio at 1:14:25. Emily Dickinsons poem „Death" spoken with a dark voice while putting gloves on - ennobled by a touch of music - just as she is called by name on the street in the night, between the last time she rather voiceless had tried to be received by a police officer and then calling the new friend on the phone in the night while waiting for the next one to kill. Anyway.~ * ~In my mind "The Brave One" is already far beyond questions about law or morality. There is no cheat code and no ace up my sleeve. Even if I think so. But then a reminder asks me to listen again carefully how heart and brain sound together.Some thankful words to Ene Oloja: Without you this film was simply impossible. Although this is only a story someone with open eyes had to wipe up the blood. God is a woman.How to come to an end? Simply stop writing and post the lines to where it's intended to.And forget about Erica Bain - if I can.

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