Starring: Jodi Foster, Terrance Howard, Naveen Andrews
Directed By: Neil Jordan
Rating: R

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The psychological thriller, The Brave One will go down in my book as Jodi Foster"s best effort since Silence of the Lambs. Her taught dramatic performance of a person wanting justice after being brutally beaten gets you involved in the storyline and holds you captive till the very end. If you love crime stories that lead you to the dark side of life, then take a walk with Jodi and see how it feels to be obsessed with a brave and sometimes fool hearted sense of justice.

{mosgoogle right}Erica’s (Foster) the host of “Street Walk”, a unique radio talk show with the sounds of the city of New York in the background. Day after day she walks the street recording anything that catches her ear. She loves New York and feels safe in any neighborhood.

Her fiancé David (Andrews) is in the medical field keeping New Yorkers alive. Taking the dog for a walk in the park relieves their stress from a laborious workday, but on one such evening, they head down a path that changes their lives forever—one temporary and the other permanently.

The movie asks the question, What would you do if a brutal act tore your life to shreds in a matter of minutes? Erica’s choice forms the basic hero/retribution plot that takes her through the darkest alleys of New York, not to hunt the sounds of the city, but a hunt for much bigger game.

Although the plot sounds a little familiar, Death Wish 1-5, Foster’s character makes this killing spree look more like a superhero trying to make Gotham safe, rather than a revenge story. The Brave One poses the issue, ‘no mater how brutal the crime, does it justify taking the law into your own hands?’

Screenwriters Roderick and Bruce Taylor justify this by providing you with a platform to imagine what it would be like to retaliate and take that to the level of defending others.

Jodi Foster gives an amazing performance as Erica who believes everyone has a dark side within, ready to come out the moment you get tromped on. Foster shows us her dark side as Erica, and it’s very scary. In terrific support of her role, Terrance Howard plays Detective Mercer who gets assigned to a case in which he thinks there is a serial killer on the loose. His depiction of a cold, calculating detective is extremely good, adding to the credibility of the plot.

There are some very realistic violent scenes, off-color language, and brief nudity. You also may not want to see this one alone.

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