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Wick's Review
Summary - Pretty Bad 1.5
The Brave One is a competent thriller undone by an out-of-time setting: 21st century New York City just doesn’t support a premise of urban paranoia. So the movie comes across as more absurd than thrilling.
While I’ll always be a Jody Foster fan (who isn’t?), the woman has to start making better career choices.
Acting - OK 2.5
Jody Foster and Terrence Howard are two first class movie stars. Sadly, they’re wasted in this stinker.
Why has she – in particular – made such poor choices of late? She’s become the Paranoia Queen: Panic Room, Flightplan, now “The Brave One.” Like Michael Douglas in his early 90’s heyday (Basic Instinct, Falling Down, Disclosure), she’s fatally attracted to movies that make base instincts appear high minded.
Male Stars - OK 2.5
Female Stars - OK 2.5
Female Costars - OK 2.5
Male Costars - OK 2.5
Film - Pretty Bad 1.5
Direction - Barely OK 2.0
Dialogue - Pretty Awful 0.5
Music - Barely OK 2.0
Visuals - Good 3.0
Edge - Risqué 1.7
Sex Innocent 1.5
Violence Fierce 1.9
Rudeness Salty 1.7
Reality - Glib 1.5
Sadly for traffickers in urban misery, the crime reductions in New York and other big cities over the past 20 years no longer support civilian avenger stories. While Jody Foster’s character ironically refers to NY’s “safest big city in America” moniker, that doesn’t inoculate the story from its essential absurdity.