The Brave One (2007)
Director: Neil Jordan
Screenplay: Bruce Taylor, Roderick Taylor, Cynthia Mort
Running Time: 122 minutes
Seeing the premise, I thought I was about to watch another instalment of Charles Bronson’s Death Wish series with the talented Jodie Foster taking over the prime role created by the 1970's action star.
Then we move onto the recovering Foster who no push over, who soon has thoughts of revenge surfacing in her mind as she recovers from her ordeal.
Thinking a formulatic tale of revenge was about to unfold, the thumb started hovering over the off button on the remote. The only thing that stopped the index finger putting an end to the whole show was knowing the class of director Neil Jordan and his leading lady Jody Foster would surely win out. As it turned out, the gut instincts were right, but Terrance Howard's contribution as Detective Mercer - a man going through some struggles of his own caught between feeling sympathy for the numb Bain and trying to fulfil his duty as a sworn officer of the law - should have also been taken into consideration.
A slight twist at the end initially led to thinking suspension of disbelief was being stretched, but after mulling it over, felt fit the end result. All in all, a good pic.
4 stars out of 5
