Product Description

?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 MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 883929004607 Manufacturer No: 1000036240

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4525 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-02-05
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 122 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Excellent movie. Blu-Ray the best.
Purchased the Blu-Ray version and not disappointed. Jodie can be an excellent actress and the material very interesting and thoughtful.

Jodi Foster at her very best
It seems to me that Jodi Foster does not age. Which, of course, is a beautiful thing. Her eyes are piercing blue and translucent that give her particularly dreamy look in this movie. She plays a woman who is attacked, along with her fiancee, in the NYC's Central Park as they walk the dog. It is sensless and brutal beating and the scenes about the attack are disturbing. While Erica Bain (Foster's character) survives the attack, her boyfriend is killed. Considering how much in love they both were with each other, this outcome is devastating for Erica. before long, she is cruising streets of New York at night taking vengeance on the bad guys in the grocery stores, subway and even her attackers. During this she becomes friends withthe police detective who connects wih Erica's feelings onthe emotional level. Being recently divirced, he suferred "a little death" compared to the real death of her boyfrined. Both people are devastated by their lost companions and the lonely, cruel world thay are left into. They understand each other completely and that is what saves this film at the end. The strongest point of the movie is Foster's voice (she is a radio person) and her quiet narration of her New York stories is riveting. Her voice is mesmerizing and her "stories" true beauty of this film. If there is a book on tape with Jodi Foster narrating it, I want to know - because I want HER to tell me the story.

Jodie saves another one
Jodie's talent saves another thinly plotted script. How many life and death situations does an average citizen get into? Does anyone believe that this-what 5'4 woman really beat up fully capable 6'1 or more man with a crowbar-oh and toss him over a high drop parking deck? I like a little vigilante justice...in my Hollywood movies only, but the final moment with Terrence Howard helping her out in the end was just a bit too much. They weren't THAT close. Still despite being predictable, the film does deliver the suspense. I understand the need to have dark scenes, but I hate that almost nuclear green tint these films use. I always feel like I need a bath after watching two hours with that slimy color. Overall The Brave One manages to entertain...because Jodie is always fascinating to watch.