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The Brave One, not so much

12:49 PM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
Stephen Becker

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Anyone see The Brave One this weekend? Anyone feel like they had seen that movie a thousand times before? For me, it didn't pass the Lifetime Television test. Which is to say: had you made the same movie without the high-profile stars Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard, would this still be a big-screen movie, or would this be something you'd see on Lifetime? And the answer for me was decidedly the later. I suppose you can make that same argument on a lot of movies -- the stars sell the film -- but to me the story here was just so simple that it felt like a TV movie of the week. Woman gets beaten to within an inch of her life. Woman decides she needs to get tough. Woman tracks down the perps. Sure, it's well acted, but if you can't see the resolution from watching the preview, you haven't been paying attention.

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Posted by Chris Vognar @ 1:19 PM Mon, Sep 17, 2007

Vigilantes seem all the rage these days - Kevin Bacon shaved his head and went after his son's killers just a couple of weeks ago in Death Sentence. Somewhere Charles Bronson is smiling...

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