The Brave One (2007)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008…when you love something, every time a bit of it goes, you lose a piece of yourself.
No matter how much lipstick you put on this pig, in the form of an accomplished, Oscar-winning star and an Oscar-nominated director with art house credentials, The Brave One remains an exploitation movie at its heart. This distaff Death Wish is extremely well-written and, not surprisingly, superbly acted, but it cannot avoid the simple fact that it appears to have been written to pander to our collective need for vicarious vengeance against all the forces of chaos that we feel are outside our control.
