The Brave One (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
by Neil Jordan
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Actor: Jodie Foster, Mary Steenburgen, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt, Terrence HowardDirector: Neil Jordan
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Brave One (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Movie Review: Meh.
Summary: 2 Stars
A lot of problems with this one. Quite a few long boring scenes that stretched my patience. Many scenes were just implausible (NY subway stations are NEVER empty). Many scenes seemed stagey, not realistic. They seemed like set pieces. Had to take a break several times to break up the monotony. Jodie is a fine actress but I never really cared deeply about her character. The best part of the movie was the cute dog!! Dogs rock!!
Summary of The Brave One (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
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 fianc? 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
?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 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.Format: DVD HD Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 085391139874 Manufacturer No: 113987
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