The Brave One
Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews
New York radio host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) has a life that she loves and a fiancé she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded and her fiancé dead. Unable...( read more
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DVD Released: February 5, 2008
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March 19, 2009It's Death Sentence, the female version!!! What's funny is that if those punks had tried to mug Sayid, this film would have ended before Act II.
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January 1, 2009Jodie Foster is the DJ of probably the most boring radio show in the world and enjoys a picture postcard romance with the perfect man. When he is killed by muggers, she takes her power back by gunning down every bad guy she comes across. Yes, it's Death Wish with a chick. I've ne... ...( read more )
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November 11, 2008''I always believed that fear belonged to other people. Weaker people. It never touched me. And then it did. And when it touches you, you know... that it's been there all along. Waiting beneath the surfaces of everything you loved.''
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October 10, 2008For generations, audiences have been completely enthralled in the revenge genre. There's just something so darn charming about seeing the baddies get what's coming to them. Where the people who do the threatening have the tables turned on them and are forced to pay the price. In ... ...( read more )
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June 25, 2009Good! I believe that if something like that would happen to you, one would also become someone else- a stranger. Not that I agree with the kind of revenge Jodie Foster is taking but I can understand if people will do...
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September 20, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
September 14, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Foster does her best with a flawed story whose ending rings even less true than the rest of it. full review
September 14, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
A true shocker that will shatter your nerves and get you talking. full review
September 14, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
It's lily-livered narrative cowardice, and I reject it. full review
September 14, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Psychological suspense is what makes The Brave One spellbinding. The movie doesn't dine out on action scenes, but regards with great curiosity how these two people will end up. full review
September 13, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The Brave One, though well cast and smoothly directed, is just as crude and ugly as you want it to be.
September 13, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Foster isn't the only one abused in this film. Viewers are, too. full review
September 13, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
There's a lot to admire in The Brave One. It just doesn't cut as deeply as it needs to. full review
September 10, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
What could impel Jodie Foster and director Neil Jordan to whisk us back to the bad old days of Death Wish and Ms. 45? Were their credit cards maxed out? full review
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July 20, 2008Very Good Movie, Don't wanna say too much & give away details... But Enjoy ! ;-)
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February 24, 2008I curently just got done watching The Brave One! I didn't think that this movie was going to be that good. But I loved it. It was a really depressing movie that made me cry but I would recomend this movie for a action/drama movie. It was one of those sad movies that you'll want to watch more than once.
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February 13, 2008does 2008 have to deal with this kind of movies.
why is everyone doing the same thing...
by the previews i expected more...
i won't recomend it...
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February 9, 2008Just saw this last night. Meh..when will Jodie stop making these types of films and do something different? Typical angry female revenge flick.
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February 7, 2008Jodie foster!! what a great actor She is. reminded me of meg ryan at a number of seens but with her own sexy looks and charm. this movie is pictureised around a really sad incident and a piece of reality from someone's life. which could happen to anyone and God forbids if it happens to anyone it will surely ruins one's life and way he/she persevies the world. that would result in the failure to acknowledge the boundries of human law and order and the world and will have only one purpose in life and that is will be to take revenge. its human nature we cant denie from it. its our nature to take revenge on whom has done wrong to us or our hurt our loved ones. i litterally cried at the end of the movie..i didnt know what to do or say. Only faith in God allmight and his plan made me stop the way i was thinking and that was what ever happens it happens for a reason and is a test in this life of our allegence and obedience to God and his commenmends. a must see and i would reoommend that movie to audience above 16 cause it has violence sex and facts of life that are way to complex for kids. the moral is taking revenge is human and its a slap on all the human right activists in favour of its violators. the the nature of punishment for cruelty is not to be decided by anyother than the victim and his family. and the justic dept has the obligatin of presenting the choice to the victims family and the victim.
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September 25, 2007Okay...as soon as I left the theatre I wanted to purchase a hand gun. Uhm...why? Could think of a number of idiots that deserved to be popped off. Maybe I got the wrong message of the flick...maybe not.
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September 24, 2007(spoiler alert!) in response to the previous comment, i have to say that that scene felt really weird to me at first too, but when i saw what they were doing with it, contrasting the beauty and intimacy that the two had shared with the horror and abuse of their attack... it is one of the scenes that has really stuck with me. incredible. HIGHLY recommended.
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September 19, 2007What was up with that really weird montage of emergency room footage interspersed with sex scene?
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September 14, 2007
I am desperate to watch this movie. Jodie is one classy intellegent actress and intense. I watched her in flightplan and I was sitting at the edge of my chair because you didn't really know if what you saw when she was boarding the plane was real or in her imagination. I won't say anymore in case you haven't seen flightplan yet. Her roles always show the dark side of her and it makes you wonder, lol.
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