The Brave One
Neil Jordan’s The Brave One tries with every bit of skill and talent it’s got to bring more complexity to the themes of vigilance and revenge following in the footsteps of the Death Wish movies and this year’s earlier Death Sentence.Instead of merely attempting to make the viewers complicit in the enjoyment of watching the wronged protagonists stepping outside the legal system and taking matters into their own hands, it uses a great actress like Jodie Foster to see the conflicted emotions such actions can yield. Ultimately, however, even this story loses its worth as it cowers from examining the real social consequences involved.
The movie sets itself in New York City like the first Death Wish, where we meet radio personality Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) who happily lives with her fianc