Review – The Brave One

Here we have a post-feminist remake of Death Wish. Everything’s okay for a woman (Jodie Foster) who does a radio show about the streets of New York. Too bad she and her fiancé decide to take the dog to Central Park after sunset. After the predictable mugging puts her in the hospital and her boyfriend in the morgue, the slow road to recovery leads to a pistol purchase and inevitably to a series of vigilante slayings. The gender reversal from the standard revenge flick allows the protagonist to have a more emotionally honest reaction to her rage and fear. It also allows romantic tension between the killer and the cop on her tail (Terrence Howard). Otherwise this is a typical specimen. Mildly amusing