The Brave One [Blu-ray]

The Brave One [Blu-ray]
by Neil Jordan

The Brave One [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Jane Adams, Jodie Foster, Mary Steenburgen, Naveen Andrews, Terrance Howard
Director: Neil Jordan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-02-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 113984
Studio: Warner Home Video
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?Why don?t they stop me?? Erica Bain wonders. Bain, a popular N.Y radio host, watched her fianc? 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

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Movie Review: "The Brave One" is great!
Summary: 5 Stars

"The Brave One" is great! The cast led by Jodie Foster (as Erica Bain) and Terrence Howard (as Detective Mercer) is excellent! The directing by Neil Jordan (who also directed "The End Of The Affair" (1999), "In Dreams" (1999), "Michael Collins" (1996), "Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles" (1994), & "The Crying Game" (1992) is excellent! The story by Roderick Taylor & Bruce A. Taylor and the screenplay by both Taylors & Cynthia Mort is excellent! The music by Dario Marianelli (who also did the music to the upcoming "Atonement" (2007) is excellent! The cinematography by Philippe Rousselot (who also did the cinematography to the upcoming "Lions For Lambs" (2007) & "Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles") is excellent! The film editing by Tony Lawson (who also been working with Jordan since "Michael Collins") is great. The casting by Laura Rosenthal (who also did the casting to the upcoming "I'm Not There" (2007) is excellent! The production design by Kristi Zea (who also did the production design to "The Departed" (2006) & "The Silence Of The Lambs" (1991), which also starred Foster) is excellent! The art direction by Robert Guerra (who also did the art direction to "The Good Shepherd" (2006) is excellent! The set decoration by Lydia Marks (who also doing the upcoming "Sex And The City" movie (2008) is excellent! The costume design by Catherine Marie Thomas (who also did the costume design to "Kill Bill Volume 1" (2003) & "Vol. 2" (2004) is excellent! This is an intense suspense-thriller that will keep you thinking and keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Summary of The Brave One [Blu-ray]

"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.

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

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