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The Brave One

The Brave One (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 183
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 105

Magnetic by between Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard can't quite compensate for The Brave One's problematic and unconvincing eye-for-an-eye moral.

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 22

Magnetic by between Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard can't quite compensate for The Brave One's problematic and unconvincing eye-for-an-eye moral.

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Movie Info

Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook results in the woman eventually dispatching vigilante justice. Terrence Howard co-stars as the officer in charge of the investigation. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

R, 2 hr. 2 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense

Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor, Cynthia Mort

Feb 5, 2008

$36.8M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Critic Reviews for The Brave One

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The Brave One is not merely the most morally repellent film of the year, but a contender for the stupidest.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: New Republic | Comments (3)
Christopher Orr
New Republic
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The fire goes out long before the film ends.

September 20, 2007 Comment
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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I think The Brave One could have been a better film with a different ending, but it's still a well-crafted, thought-provoking story with outstanding performances.

September 18, 2007 Comment
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Foster does her best with a flawed story whose ending rings even less true than the rest of it.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Uncertainty helps keep The Brave One on its toes.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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You long for all this combined talent to be in the service of something more deserving than a retread of a story that has lost the edge it had 33 years ago.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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Jodie Foster and thoughtful Irish international director Neil Jordan take us to places we'd probably rather avoid.

April 28, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
Kelly Vance
East Bay Express

The Brave One can at times be a brutal, violent and harrowing portrait of an over burdened system, where thugs rule the streets and the corrupt contaminate the upper echelon of society. It is also an un-original revenge/vigilante story.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews | Comment
Matthew Pejkovic
Matt's Movie Reviews

Deplorable urban-vengeance melodrama

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

You know what would be brave? Making an unflinching film about a difficult-to-tackle topic and complex characters, and sticking to your message, damn the torpedoes.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune | Comment
Mike Scott
Times-Picayune

The Brave One is worth seeing for the scenes between Terrence Howard and Jodie Foster.

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | Comment
Tony Macklin
Fayetteville Free Weekly

They're trotting it around at all the festivals trying to distract everyone from how bad it is.

September 8, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment
Heather Huntington
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Foster only good thing in violent revenge fantasy.

July 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Cynthia Fuchs
Common Sense Media

[A] dopey action movie featuring the contributions of people too talented to waste their time on something this risible.

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: MSNBC | Comment
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

Jordan je, koriste%u0107i svoj nesumnjivi re%u017Eijski talent, snimio film koji je istovremeno i staromodan i moderan

April 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Index.hr | Comment
Dragan Antulov
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Formuliac revenge piece ala Charles Bronson's Death Wish series of the 70's with Jodie Foster in the lead but little more to recommend it. Terrance Howard and the rest of the supporting cast cannot believe that a woman would turn vigilante ... which is tougher acting than it sounds.

September 23, 2007
moonrivers
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The Brave One is an average action film with a decent cast of actors. I thought that the film was pretty entertaining despite the fact that the ideas in the plot have been done countless times before in other films. The film is for me, anyways, mindless entertainment. The film is good enough for a mindless viewing

November 22, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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