"The Brave One" stars veteran actress Jodie Foster as Erica Bain a New York City woman who works as a radio talk show host, and she seems to be happy and have all comfort in her life including a loving relationship with an emergency room doctor. Then one night when she along with her lover take a stroll in Central Park the unthinkable happens a brutal attack on both which leaves her hurt both mentally and physically, after Erica awakens she finds the news is bad her boyfriend has died. This film then takes on a fear factor mind set from then on something that many victims rights groups can relate to with the goals and struggles to overcome the constant fear. Also the film is transformed into a revenge story as Erica becomes a gun loving lady that she carries all the time to protect herself, even though good investigative work is provided from Detective Mercer(Terrence Howard). The message this film points to is a justice of vigilante style a kind that is a crowd pleaser, yet it's not to common in the real world because the justice system brings to many consequences and still wrongs to many victims. Good film that can be enjoyed by victims rights groups and mainly vigilante groups who can only hope for change in the justice for victims while the realism of the world's justice is often not standard being very scattered and bleak.
Review of The Brave One
The Brave One
(2007)
Vigilante justice the standard you hope for, but weak in realism.
5 October 2007