Now the movie becomes less about Erica's killings and more about how they make her feel. "Yes," she says, "there must be a lot of us." Us. With Foster, it's Terrence Howard, playing a detective named Mercer who is assigned to the original mugging, who chats with Erica, who observes there seem to be a lot of people in the city who would like to get even. And often there's a cop on the case who grows curiously close to the killer. These are the general parameters of all vengeance movies. Erica has never seen herself as capable of killing, and now she grows addicted to it, offering herself as defenseless bait for criminals and then proving how terribly mistaken they were. We've started with one of those admirable National Public Radio types whose voice is almost maddeningly sane and patient, and now we have a woman (narrating the movie, sometimes) who sounds more like she doesn't work upstairs over the saloon but she does own a piece of it. A holdup takes place, there's violence, she kills a guy to save her life, and she feels - well, how does she feel? Shaken, nauseous maybe, but certainly glad she's alive. Not long after, she's in a late-night convenience store (note: midnight strolls in Central Park rank second only to all-night stores in their movie-crime rates). One day she buys a gun and practices on a shooting range where you can see fear turning into anger in her eyes. Her illusion of a safe city life is destroyed. When Erica is discharged, she's shaking with terror. She's engaged to a doctor named David (Naveen Andrews), they're in Central Park late one night, they're mugged, he's killed, and she's badly injured. Terrence Howard and Foster are perfectly modulated in the kinds of scenes difficult for actors to play, where they both know more than they're saying, and they both know it.įoster plays Erica, a talk jock on a New York radio station. And Neil Jordan's "The Brave One" gives her someone strong to play against. How are we supposed to respond to them? When Bronson's kill count got above 50, why didn't the scales of justice snap? But now here is Jodie Foster, with a skilled co-star and director, to give us a movie that deals, really deals, with the issues involved.įoster is such a good actress in thrillers: natural, unaffected, threatened, plucky, looking like she means it. Kevin Bacon's "Death Sentence" was released two weeks ago. How many films have there been about victims of violence who turn into avengers? Charles Bronson made five "Death Wish" movies.
Rated R (for strong violence, language and some sexuality). Roger ebert has given the film a 3.5 rating.
Samrat.good review.but read Roger ebert's review given below.
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