We watched The Brave One with Jodie Foster the other night. She was excellent as the NYC woman with the charmed life (engaged and in love with a doctor, great job as a radio talk show host) who finds it all ripped to shreds when she and her fiancee are violently attacked while walking their dog in Central Park. When she wakes up from a coma three weeks later to find that her boyfriend has died, she eventually returns home to try to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find that the violence has changed her irrevocably. She in turn becomes violent while seeking some peace and definitely some revenge.
Since the majority of the film is told through her eyes and ears, we feel Foster's pain as she tries to come to grips with with what has happened to her life. Her wonderful acting elevates this film far beyond a remake of "Death Wish". Terence Howard as the detective on the hunt for the vigilante also does as good a job as always.
