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(1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 38% Rotten Page   1   D+ "The Brave One is glossy trash masquerading as a meaningful and important drama, and that's the biggest shame of all."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4.5/5 "With a title that suggests the start of an epic poem or perhaps a fairy tale, The Brave One is a startling achievement for stars Jodie Foster and Terrance Howard, and yet another notch in the growing artistic oeuvre of Neil Jordan."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron C+ "Brave One isn't Death Wish, but there are moments where I could see Jordan giving in to that impulse."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf B- "As its blandly heroic title forecasts, "The Brave One" is a revenge fantasy that floats like a narrative helium balloon waiting to find its ceiling."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "In that moment, the movie changes too, from a subjective contemplation of her grief and loss to an erratic vigilante pic."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Bravura performances can't save this 'One, a run-of-the-mill vigilante flick from director Neil Jordan (not known for his run-of-the-mill anything)."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 3.5/4 "...one of the most compelling and flat-out exciting revenge thrillers to come along in quite some time."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "Got the exploitation part right but couldn't get much else right."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 7/10 "Jordan je, koriste%u0107i svoj nesumnjivi re%u017Eijski talent, snimio film koji je istovremeno i staromodan i moderan"   Index.hr   Dragan Antulov 2/4 "Riddled with illogical plot contrivances, pat irony, half-formed subplots, and a climax that stretches the boundaries of what can be swallowed."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "Suggests something tailored for people who buy their CDs at coffee shops and approve of how Rudy Giuliani pimped out Times Square to the Disney Company."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 2/5 "Una película mediocre, sensacionalista y manipuladora filmada por un buen director."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "Somehow, Foster and Howard make it work."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B+ "Jordan's most interesting film since The Butcher Boy."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "Deplorable urban-vengeance melodrama"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 2/4 "Jordan's Brave delves into a showy yet sluggish crime drama that incorporates all the cliched parts of a fatalistic fantasy audiences have seen over and over."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng C "The very fact that it's so well-made actually makes the picture all the more morally dubious."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3.5/4 "Although it is bloody and at times brutal, it doesn't revel in the violence. There's more to the movie than initially meets the eye for an eye."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "Suggests a real lack of imagination on the part of the filmmakers and a sad capitulation to the idea that violence is the only answer."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/4 "Dreadful misfire casts Jodie Foster as a vengeance-fueled vigilante bent on cleaning up a New York that hasn't existed for years."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 7/10 "The movie never seems entirely plausible. Yet it makes no difference; we still get involved with it."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "As polished as it may be on the surface, 'The Brave One' is never satisfying because the complexities of eloquent language or imagery are not present."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 1.5/5 "The only thing that could have made this movie better is if it were revealed at the end that our leading lady was really a man. But we've been down that path before."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C+ "...sullied by sludgy screenwriting, but Jodie and Jordan almost pull it out of the mire. It's a misfire, but an interesting one."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/5 "Has neither the depth of character nor of theme to justify the condoning of her actions."   UR Chicago Magazine   Mark Dujsik "Hoorah for vigilantism! Who needs the rule of law when you've got guns?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "An ugly, nasty, self-deluding piece of sadistic trash."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "[Despite some flaws,] I do recommend the movie - for Foster's stunning performance and for the story's willingness to explore the honest-to-goodness implications of violence."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "Just a more superficially sober version of Death Wish."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "Erica finds herself in mortal danger so often you'd think New York had reverted to pre-Giuliani anarchy."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 " Forget about comparing this film to Death Wish, as many already have this isn't good enough to deserve comparison to Death Wish 4: The Crackdown."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "With a smart script, sure-handed direction and strongly internalised performances, this film astutely blends a personal drama with a revenge thriller."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "It's as much about the unfocused feelings of vengeful rage many Americans had after 9/11 as about a woman going on a killing spree."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "If nothing else, enjoy Nicky Katt's hilariously smart-ass one-liners."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C+ "Foster and Howard are outstanding actors and they play their roles very well in this film, keeping the empowerment-by-murder plot from sinking until the end."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3/4 "An unapologetic genre picture powered by a pair of honest performances that plucks our emotional strings and races our pulses."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 2.5/4 "Every slimeball Erica encounters menaces her with remorseless, repulsive sadism—there's never anyone who just has a lewd comment, say… Everyone wants to bludgeon or shoot her, mutilate and molest her…"   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 8/10 "Almost tortuously high-tension and exciting, it switches gender with Charles Bronson's "Death Wish.""   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 5/10 "Too unpleasantly stern to be exploitation, and too bloodthirsty to be drama."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 38% Rotten Page   1