The Brave One Reviews and Ratings



  • November 10, 2009
    Just kind of blah. It didn't really illicit any emotional response and obviously with the story it presented, it should have. The performaces weren't great by either Jodie Foster or Terrence Howard which is unusual. Just a bad script I guess...
  • November 10, 2009
    Jodie Foster is absolutely one of the best actresses. a predictable revenge movie..
    Jodie Foster loves playing strong women and no doubt it really suits her..one of the greatest revenge films ever
  • October 29, 2009
    It was OK.Death Wish 3 is way better
  • October 24, 2009
    NO STARS!!! i soo call this movie "The Lame One" BOOM BOOM!!
  • October 21, 2009
    Un autre excellent film où Jodie Foster joue un rôle de battante, mais elle prend un rôle de justicière, ce que je crois est dépasser les limites...
  • October 20, 2009
    Gut wrenching. Excellent acting.
  • October 19, 2009
    Loved it ! Full of action
  • October 18, 2009
    AHHHHHHHh the swet smell of revenge baby
  • September 23, 2009
    This film was terrifc. Great performances, excellent screenplay and a thrilling tone that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
  • September 23, 2009
    An impressively emotional nail-biter! Very slow at times - but that is just the pace it needs for the feeling to set right... It sat very very good with me!!
  • September 21, 2009
    She isn't brave when she just goes down the street shooting people. Overall it was alright.
  • September 20, 2009
    Jodie Foster is a fantastic actress, and on paper this is a good premise, it's a shame that it's as Hollywood and hollow and shitty as the next one, if you catch me. It's another ruined thriller, filled with "deep" and "meaningful" monologues that "don't" drag on forever.
    It even...( read more) tries to justify vigilantism at the end - how fucking dare they insult us all so much?
  • September 20, 2009
    It was a great movie. The story was spectacular it was really realistic and also the end was great. I love this kind of movies. Jodie Foster was spectacular as usually.
  • September 12, 2009
    Definitely worth watching.
  • September 2, 2009
    jodie tá linda, mas o filme não é nada de mais.
  • September 1, 2009
    stupid how all jodie foster movies include her getting raoed or something. rape is not entertaining
  • August 27, 2009
    Foster gave an excellent performance in a film that's not entirely original and yet not entirely trite. Sure, vengeance plots have been played numerous times, but this movie had a different feel. The cinematography irked me at times, but it eventually grew on me.
  • August 27, 2009
    It's a good movie, with a good script and wonderfully acting. Psychological, makes you truly wonder about certain things. Of course they screwed the ending with some classic romanticism but it was ok.
  • August 26, 2009
    *Yawn* If you're gonna do vigilante do it right. What a pretentious piece of crap.
  • August 22, 2009
    "the brave one" is jodie foster's latest blockbuster breakthru by some art-house director neil jordan with the helpful upstaging thru charismatic terrence howard. so would "the brave one" be a smash hit? obviously, it sells well but would its crucial viewpoint be taken without be...( read more)ing midled and over-generalized as another "chic with vengence" rehash, especially from male audience? another sort of chic/woman's flicks about strong woman risen up against all the odds just like 40s "mildred pierce"?

    it's a story about a woman and her husband-to-be being almost beaten to death in the central park. she survives but her loved one passes. so angered by the injustice and grievance as well as approaching fright, she purchases a gun for the sense of safety. then some other perilous events drive her into using her lethal pistol into immediate killings which she's obtained great kicks from until she actively sets her path into disposing of the genuine evil men that including her fiancee' murders. therefore, she's become an involuntary vigilante partially forced by circumstance.

    "the brave one" is actually a film noir to its essence but inevitably it over-lingers over the sentimentalities of a woman's traumatic pysche after the catastrophe such as the self-inflicted confession over the radio-broadcastings, and those attributes are easily categorized as "feminist refugee" like 90s "thelma and louis".

    there're four basic elements of film noirs that this flick's contour could ascribe: 1. the dark side of humanity over sex or violence. 2. anarchistic distrust over the law. 3. a vigilante to perform the justice on his own, usually private dick like philip marlowe. 4. the seedy backset of a metropolitan's shadowy retreat like raymond chandler and james m cain's frequent spots of los angels, grendale, pasadena in southern california or danshiel hammet's san fransisco. and "the brave one" is about human's potential appetite of violence being provoked by grand tragedy, and the woman protagonist's distrust over the law is so severe that she has to buy a gun to feel safe, then bang bang bang! she would do justice on her own, a vigilante! and it's about the dark corners of new york as well as her obsession over this super-metropolitan that's well-channeled by her radio-broadcastings...unfortunately these traits have been neglected by the viewers, does it occur to you that audience cannot deem it as film noir just becuz the vigilante protagonist ain't male despite jodie foster has every believable characteristic of a tough guy inside her? or it's too sentimental to be taken as noirish? or it's becuz the director hasn't toyed enough of cinematography of starkness but chose naturalistic rendering instead?

    still, it's very engrossing to put a woman into a spot in this kind of story as gender-reversal. jodie foster has a genuine grit in her and her "tough guy" ain't like uma thurman's cartoonish "kill bill"(a semi-dominatrix vixen in boyish pulp), she conveys real fragility as well as genuine toughness to win the odds. probably she's the only woman actress who could pull off the task of action heroine without taunting her sex appeal. perhaps, a woman in the main spot would bring out some feminine aspects to mellow out such material which is supposed to be harsher, rougher and more expressionistic to be considered noirish. pitifully "the brave one" would still be labelled as "chic flick", "woman's movie" or "feministic refugee".
  • August 20, 2009
    maybe I'll see this one.
  • August 18, 2009
    i really wanna see it
  • August 17, 2009
    Jodie Foster gives great NPR voice. The rest of the movie is not so successful. Foster herself essays a noble performance, always interesting even when the movie is going to totally improbable narrative places. It's by her virtues that The Brave One is even watchable at all, beca...( read more)use it really doesn't offer anything else. The action isn't all that interesting, though Neil Jordan does have a knack for communicating brutality without making it feel exploitative, and there's not very much of it. I'm inclined to believe that Jordan tried to use this action/violence thematically, but it feels stitched on and sort of unnatural. We already know most of what it tells us: that Erica is frightened, that she is desperate, that she is wounded and angry and unable to help herself. It is by the grace of Foster's inventive performance that the movie avoids massive repetition, but it lands in a completely uninspiring place as a result. Terrence Howard, meanwhile, is a total disaster. Shockingly miscast, he looks and acts babyfaced and overly fresh in a part that calls for someone restricted, beaten down and morally divided. He does not project an ounce of the character's internal conflict, instead content to ride his narrative purpose throughout the movie. He's simply window dressing, an obstacle for Erica to jump over, not a complex human being. The performance is downright lazy.

    Foster hasn't been doing much work lately, presumably opting for the whole motherhood thing, but this is a disappointing return to cinema. We all know that she's never going to find another Silence of the Lambs, but I have faith; surely she can do better than THIS.
  • August 13, 2009
    Got to love a vigilante, especially in the form of Jodie Foster. She's kick butt.
  • July 30, 2009
    Yes it's a dark movie but it's way better than a lot of other dark movies out there. How much do I love Terrence Howard in this role and Jodie Foster is amazing as always. They play off of each other very well each bringing a controlled talent to the table. I personally liked ...( read more)the story and the ending.
  • July 27, 2009
    She still hates men I see
  • July 15, 2009
    really good movie to watch..
  • July 11, 2009
    Excellent thriller. Great cast. Erica (Jodie) is a radio presenter who is viciously attacked and her partner is killed in a random attack in the park. She finds herself on a killing spree, defending herself and others in a supermarket, subway and on the streets. She has a police ...( read more)officer (Terrence) on her tail as she hunts down the gang of youths who attacked her.
  • July 8, 2009
    Saw it LOVED it.........
    Reminds me of me.....
  • July 8, 2009
    Incredibly powerful. This film struck home on so many levels and has left me thinking about the stranger I have become within myself in the wake of trauma.
  • July 5, 2009
    Very Good Action Pack Movie. I really enjoyed.
  • July 2, 2009
    shoulda been called vigilante chick .. or something.
  • June 25, 2009
    Good! 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...
  • June 24, 2009
    This female version of "Deathwish" turned out to be much better than I thought. The inciting incident hooked me automatically and kept me interested up to the end. The plot was well-thought out and the story moved at a decent pace to keep the viewer intrigued. Foster is excell...( read more)ent as Erica Bain, but the true star of the show in my opinion is Terrence Howard, who turns in a stellar performance is the troubled cop who befriends Foster!
  • June 23, 2009
    I loved this movie up until the last 15 minutes. I just don't get why there is this trend in Hollywood of making endings that are designed to appeal to the audience instead of making endings that are reasonable. I don't want to spoil anything, so let's just say I would have done ...( read more)things differently if I was the director.

    The rest of the movie is excellent - good story, interesting characters, and a great performance by Jodie Foster. It's just too bad that it couldn't be great from start to finish.
  • June 20, 2009
    havent seen one of the best actressess in hollywood "jodie foster" in a new movie...and i did now and the movie was good..however Jodie didnt deserve the golden globe nod..however also the movie suites Jodie calm character and how she emerged to be a lesbain..the ending could hav...( read more)e been alot better..the movie however tells an important message about how bad people should be wiped!!!however the main character made a mistake by doing it herself instead of leaving it to the law..i want a better movie Jodie Foster!
  • June 15, 2009
    not all the guilty should receive the death. How this movie made danger we live in the streets of the city.
  • June 15, 2009
    An interesting take on revenge. A good portrayal of how far someone would go for the person they loved
  • June 14, 2009
    Jodie foster plays a total badass and strangely, it works!
  • June 10, 2009
    I watched it and homegirl kinda' went off the chain there...I sensed a little insanity coming on
  • June 6, 2009
    I didn't enjoy his film, although theres action, Jodie foster annoys me in it!
  • June 6, 2009
    achei que fosse mais focado na ação... a história demooooora pra se desenvolver. me deu sono n.n"
  • June 6, 2009
    Retirement term of Jodie Foster.
  • June 5, 2009
    Good movie and well acted. Have it.
  • June 5, 2009
    Not to be confused with the...family-mushy film of the 50's,this...well...how to exclaim it..revenge topic comes off clean for the sadists of the genre.
    If you ask me though,personally...Jordan must defend his reputation in the Worldwide Court of Film Industry and resuscitate his...( read more) dignity because by making a ludicrous,semi-militarist piece of shit like this,he'll need more than an innocence presumption!!!

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