The Brave One

At the beginning, the movie started a bit slow. Trying to portray the main character, Erica Bain as happy, in love and set for life. Thinking that New York is home, a city with it goods and bad, but never horrifying. And then, one unfortunate night, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, Erica and her fiancé was attack by bunch of thugs. Erica survived but her fiancé did not. Living her, alone, scared, traumatized, and changed.

This is a movie about a normal citizen, affected by the ever growing crime that has been happening all around the world. She finally had enough, feeling that the authority isn’t doing enough and decided to take matter into her own hand.

I was a bit turned off by the slow start, but it picked itself up again about 30 minutes after that. Right after that, it shows how someone doesn’t simply recover from such heinous experience, but they change. They carry grudge, anger and bitterness inside them toward all ‘bad guys’.

I admire the way they convey the fact that Erica Bain was cynics toward the authority. And although she chooses the vigilante justice’s path, still, she’s haunted by her own conscience. Jodie Foster carried this character very well. The coldness in her eyes, the restlessness that she has to live with, it just suits her. Despite the snail pace in this movie, for what is worth, Jodie Foster’s performance made up for it.

I give this one 3 stars!