The Brave One

Name: The Brave One
Director: Neil Jordan
Released: 2007

Synopsis

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

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ReelViews
Not since "The Crying Game" has Jordan crafted as compelling a motion picture.
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The A.V. Club
The moody tone and carefully balanced drama turn a grubby premise into something unexpectedly elegant.
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Chicago Tribune
The Brave One is "Death Wish" with a guilty conscience, and while it may be a bit of a hypocrite as vigilante thrillers go, the internal contradictions of the thing make for a very interesting picture.
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Village Voice
Taken literally, almost everything that follows in The Brave One so seriously strains credibility (even by the standards of the genre) as to enter the realm of the absurd. Taken on the level of a menacing urban fairy tale, however--something akin to what Jane Campion was aiming for with "In the Cut"--it's strangely fascinating.
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The Hollywood Reporter
A vigilante drama boasting a powerful Jodie Foster performance and carefully weighted direction by Neil Jordan.
70
Washington Post
It's hard to hate, because as a rabble-rouser it is superbly effective, driven forward by two powerhouse actors.
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Austin Chronicle
A confounding movie on many levels. For all its sophistication and sensitivity, it turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even.
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Variety
Foster’s pistol-packing turn as an avenging dark angel nearly sustains director Neil Jordan’s grim vigilante drama through a string of implausibilities and occasionally trite psychological framing devices, with deft support from Terrence Howard as a sympathetic cop.