The Brave One (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt, Mary Steenburgen
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 113929
UPC: 085391139294
EAN: 0085391139294
ASIN: B0010HOZW6
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 5, 2008
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| • | ?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 |
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For Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), the streets of New York are both her home and her livelihood. She shares the sounds and the stories of her beloved city with her radio audience as the host of the show "Street Walk." At night, she goes home to the love of her life, her fiance David Kirmani (Naveen Andrews). But everything Erica knows and loves is ripped from her on one terrible night when she and David are ambushed in a random, vicious attack that leaves David dead and Erica close to it. Though Erica's broken body heals, deeper wounds remain--the devastation of losing David and, even more overwhelming, a suffocating fear that haunts her every step. The city streets she had once loved to roam, even places that had been warm and familiar, now feel strange and threatening. When the fear finally becomes too much to bear, Erica makes a fateful decision to arm herself against it. The gun in her hand becomes a tangible way to protect herself from an intangible enemy...or so she thinks. The first time she shoots someone, it is kill or be killed. The second time is also in self-defense...or did she make a choice not to take herself out of harm's way? The fear that had once paralyzed her has been replaced by something else...something that drives her to reclaim the life that was taken from her that night...something that Erica does not even recognize in herself. Stories of an anonymous vigilante grip the city, and NYPD detective Sean Mercer (Terrence Howard) becomes increasingly determined to track down the killer. As he pieces together the clues, the evidence begins to point not to a guy with a gun...but a woman with a grudge. With Mercer closing in and her own conscience trying her, Erica must decide whether her quest for some form of justice, and even vengeance, is truly the right path, or if she has become the very thing she is hunting.
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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
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 kill or be killed in New York? February 21, 2010
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
As much as I may have enjoyed this movie,
I think it is questionable making heroes out
of people twisted by life into monsters they themselves no longer recognize.
New York has turned itself into an hell on earth
with greed, crime and drugs, such that those receiving crime
are hard to distinguish from those dishing it out?
The woman vigilante here is New York's finest?
Something is very wrong when the police have lost so much
respect that people take the matters into their own hands.
 NOT LIKELY February 11, 2010
Meme
It is laughable to see tiny, little woman like Miss Foster playing the "macho" part in movies. As convincing as Demi Moore in JI Jane! Anyone who went through boot camp knows Mrs. Moore would not have survived the first half hour! (I didn't because I'm a woman but my husband did.) Women don't have the strength of men--and I mean PHISICAL strength--no matter what they do. If you think I'm wrong, if you're caught inside a burning building, who'd you trust more to rescue you: a strong man or a strong woman?! Keep in mind that firemen physical fitness requirements (as well as the Military) had to be dropped considerably in order to be able to accommodate women.
 2010 MUST SEE MOVIE February 3, 2010
Asia Woods
WOW!! THIS MOVIE IS A MUST SEE FOR ALL.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES THAT I HAVE SEEN IN MY LIFE. TERRANCE HOWARD AND JODIE FOSTER MADE THIS MOVIE VERY CONVINCING, THEY BOTH WERE PERFECTIONISTS IN THEIR OWN WAY AND IT SHOWED.
THEY SHOULD HAVE NAMED IT TWISTED. OH, EVERY LITTLE DETAIL FITTED LIKE A PUZZLE IN THE END, THE DIRECTORS DIDN'T MISS A BEAT!
GET IT FOR YOUR COLLECTION!!
WOW!!
The Underrated One December 31, 2009
David Butler (Winter Park, FL, USA)
THE BRAVE ONE is a daringly realistic portrait of a woman pushed too far by violence and shows just how violence begets itself even while the intentions change.
When ERICA BAIN walks the city, she takes the time to observe that which most don't. She sees where she is and what it all means, all meshed together with crime and business and love and affection and affliction and power and fun and beauty. She can see and see well. Or can she? After the unfortunate event that lays the story's foundation, ERICA has a frightening epiphany. Despite her private belief of strength and superiority, she finds that she is no safer than anyone else. But rather than join a support group, take to the bottle, cry herself to sleep or barricade herself inside her apartment, she decides to do what few others do. She decides to fight back.
Even though the police do excellent work, solve countless crimes and remove thousands of bad seeds from the streets, it is never enough. Americans have the right to bear arms to defend themselves. Not just from foreign invasion, but from the evil of the individual who threatens you from right down the street. Why wait for the bad people to make the right mistakes that would lead to their prosecution? Why not protect the sheep - driving their cars, riding the subway, walking the streets, sitting alone in bars and offices - before they're sheered by the wolves? Why not intervene instead of cowering and then calling 911 after the damage has been done? Why not act as as a truly united people by protecting each other?
People say that the events of The Brave One are too "coincidental" to be realistic, but that misses the main character's intentions. ERICA seeks out bad people by frequenting bad parts of town, especially at night. She knows the city and for the first time she is deliberately going to the places she has always known to avoid. In a very real sense, minus the cape and rubber suit, she is a superhero. Like the operatives who protect our citizens by keeping their identities a secret, so does ERICA BAIN. Remember: real superheroes are the ones you don't see.
Comparisons to Death Wish, Taxi Driver and others are expected, but this film has something distinctly real and different to offer the thinking movie-goer. She is not a villain, she has no ego about her agenda, she is not cold or malicious, and she is not a sadist. She is a regular person (not an ex-cop or ex-con or ex-military) who has had enough of the vile sociopathic minority whose only aim is to terrorize, rape, rob, and murder the majority who just want to make their way peacefully in the world. Some argue that this is impossible, but that is just an echo of the fear machine propagated by the media and by the politicians whose votes are cast out of fear.
ERICA sublimates her fears to carry out a mission of justice for the people of the city she loves, as well as for the greater good of humanity. In every office and classroom and city street, you can find a whole cast of characters that represent the different sides of the human condition. Among them are the happy one, the sad one, the friendly one, the lonely one, the confident one, the frightened one, the peaceful one, the angry one, the zealous one, the tired one, the healthy one, the sickly one, and the apathetic one. ERICA is the brave one. If you don't accept this, then ask yourself why is it that millions cheer on the antics of Batman or Spiderman? Isn't it a good thing when Jason Voorhees is chopped to pieces? How about that personal vendetta of The Bride? Many believe that killing masses of "bad guys" is fine as long as the movie's setting is a far cry from reality. But when reality takes center stage, minds and stances often easily and radically changed.
The Brave One December 17, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
This movie will keep you on the edge on your seat, thriller but the acting was very good and the story was pretty original, different then all the formula movies out there. It was good to see a movie that provided justice without the lousy and corrupt judicial system and lawyers like in real life. I enjoyed the ending!
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