She has everything going for her in her career and also in her personal life as she prepares for her marriage to Dr David Kirmani. Written by: Roderick Taylor, Bruce A.Erica Bain is a talk-radio host in New York, specialising in spots that are close to poetry on various subjects.Starring: Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard.It's sad to think that Foster has gone from making quality films like "Little Man Tate" and "The Silence of the Lambs" to starring in mediocre thrillers like "Panic Room," "Flightplan" and, now, this.
Scenes often seem contrived, and the finale is a total cop-out. Despite its ambitions to the contrary, "The Brave One" still comes across as a dressed-up "Death Wish" rehash, only with lots (and lots) of close-ups of Foster emoting as Erica wrestles with her inner pain. It isn't quite as intriguing as it might sound.
Will he figure out that Erica's the vigilante he's seeking? And, if he does, what will he do about it? A kindred spirit, except he still believes in enforcing the law. In the meantime, she befriends a police detective, Sean Mercer (Terrence Howard), who's investigating the killings she has committed and who's frustrated by the way the law (or the manipulation of the law) sometimes protects the guilty. She seems resigned to follow this dangerous path to the end. She recognizes that the old Erica is gone, and what's left is a woman full of fear and rage. She feels anguish over what she's doing, but it becomes a compulsion. And it does in at least one regard: the way the victim-turned-vigilante is portrayed by Foster as someone who is destroyed by violence and emerges as a different person.
As I was leaving, the theater manager informed me that no one in the audience came out to complain.Ĭharlie's no longer with us, but now we've got Jodie Foster in a similar role in "The Brave One." Directed by Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game"), the drama clearly aims to go beyond the routine let's-slaughter-the-slime type of revenge flick. Bronson would the spend the rest of the movie tracking down the bad guys and executing them.Īt this particular screening of "Death Wish 4," however, the reels got mixed, and Bronson started killing folks before he had any reason to. One or more people close to Bronson's character would be killed, raped, maimed or something on that order by evil creeps. The "Death Wish" movies, starring Charles Bronson, followed a familiar pattern. One of the funniest, weirdest experiences I've ever had in a movie theater occurred when I saw "Death Wish 4" at the old Airport Cinemas in Hyannis.
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