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The Brave One
2007
· Movie
· 122 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3265
- IMDb #2936
- Rotten Tomatoes #3506
- Metacritic #3502
- Letterboxd #3624
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4134
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3041
- Metacritic Critics #2822
- Metacritic Audience #4206
- Douban #1281
- Kinopoisk #2756
- AlloCiné #2929
- Trakt #3053
Every rating
43–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 43, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 50, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A radio host's life is shattered when she and her fiancé are brutally attacked in a random act of violence. While she survives, he is killed, leaving her traumatized and filled with rage. Unable to rely on the justice system, she buys an illegal gun and becomes a vigilante, stalking the streets of New York to exact revenge on criminals.
Details
- Director
- Neil Jordan
- Writers
- Bruce A. Taylor, Cynthia Mort, Roderick Taylor
- Released
- 12 September 2007
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $70.0M
- Box office
- $69.8M
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