Rating of
1.5/4
If You Sit Through This...You're The Brave One
Freddie - wrote on 12/15/09
Hey, Bruce Wayne, meet Bernie Goetz. I felt like I was watching Batman Gon' Psycho. Foster's character's name is Erica Bain for a reason--she should be Poison Ivy's maniacal assistant. Jodie foster and her fiancee are brutally attacked in a tunnel in Central Park and the fiancee ends up dying. In response she buys and gun and tries to execute every bad guy in New York. She should go join the WatchMen. This movie tries to create a moral dilemma by creating this vigilante who takes justice into her own hands, but really turns out to be a loose cannon who should be locked away forever. Her actions were laughable and ridiculous. The only "justified" killing was the first one in the convenient store. Had she not shot that man she probably would have gotten shot. He was obviously not afraid to use again. Other than that, unnecessary.
Foster's execution of this role was flawless, despite the ridiculousness of it all. Then again, Foster never goes wrong with revenge dramas. Honestly, the only reason I sat through to the end of this silly movie is because I wanted to see if Howard was going to arrest her; and, well...that ending was just annoying.
