The Brave One

Forget ‘brave’ – Neil Jordan is being positively heroic here. From the moment he took it on, The Crying Game director must have known his gender-swapped Death Wish would struggle to escape the shadow of the myriad other movies that have walked the urban-vigilante road. The man’s certainly got guts. Sadly, that’s not enough – he needed a good movie, too. He doesn’t deliver it.

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