Synopsis
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Cast
- Michael CaineHarry Brown
- Emily MortimerD.I. Alice Frampton
- Iain GlenS.I. Childs
- Lee OakesDean Saunders
- Liam CunninghamSid Rourke
- Sean HarrisStretch
- Charlie Creed-MilesD.S. Terry Hicock
- David BradleyLeonard Attwell
- Ben DrewNoel Winters
- Jack O'ConnellMarky
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Essential stuff, even by the big man's considerable standards. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This movie plays better than perhaps it should. Directed as a debut by Daniel Barber, it places story and character above manufactured "thrills" and works better. - 70
Variety
Bleak, gripping, sporadically exciting drama. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Caine makes a grave, soulful vigilante avenger, and first-time director Daniel Barber gives the film a dank, streaky, genuinely unnerving palette. - 60
Time Out
We like our secondhand vengeance as sleazy and bloody as the next grindhouse fiend, but even an intentional throwback shouldn’t feel content to coast on so much déjà vu. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Part punk-drab British art-house portrait of underclass despair, part bloody vigilante pic, Harry Brown is shakily held together by industrial-strength sound design and the expertly employed theatrics of Michael Caine in the title role. - 50
Observer
Michael Caine is such a consummate actor that it's a major cause of concern to see him in Harry Brown, another hateful vigilante flick the wags in England have already labeled Dirty Harry Brown for reasons that are immediately obvious. - 40
The New Yorker
Thoroughly derivative, and it doesn't illuminate youth crime -- it exploits it.
