Recensioni di Metacritic

Not since "The Crying Game" has Jordan crafted as compelling a motion picture.

The moody tone and carefully balanced drama turn a grubby premise into something unexpectedly elegant.

The Brave One is "Death Wish" with a guilty conscience, and while it may be a bit of a hypocrite as vigilante thrillers go, the internal contradictions of the thing make for a very interesting picture.

Taken literally, almost everything that follows in The Brave One so seriously strains credibility (even by the standards of the genre) as to enter the realm of the absurd. Taken on the level of a menacing urban fairy tale, however--something akin to what Jane Campion was aiming for with "In the Cut"--it's strangely fascinating.

A vigilante drama boasting a powerful Jodie Foster performance and carefully weighted direction by Neil Jordan.

It's hard to hate, because as a rabble-rouser it is superbly effective, driven forward by two powerhouse actors.

A confounding movie on many levels. For all its sophistication and sensitivity, it turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even.

Foster’s pistol-packing turn as an avenging dark angel nearly sustains director Neil Jordan’s grim vigilante drama through a string of implausibilities and occasionally trite psychological framing devices, with deft support from Terrence Howard as a sympathetic cop.

Everything about Foster's ocular intensity is riveting, but little in this hushed vigilante drama makes sense.

Foster’s feminist victimization complex seems to be looping around to meet Nixon and Agnew. Next she’ll be hunting Commies for the FBI.