wildcard
12th September 2010, 01:41 PM
I watch a lot of movies. Not as many lately because they're full of crap. I came across this British film named Harry Brown from 2009.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289406/
Now, everyone that has a teevee maybe they heard about this and saw it in theaters, but I doubt it was played much in America.
I didn't even realize there was a major motion picture studio left in Britain, still not certain there is. Anyhow, on to the movie.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars. It was somewhat predictable and formulaic, but it felt like a much older movie. Y'know, before rainbow casts and political correctness took over everything. There is some of that here (the main bad boys are all white except 1) and there's a female lead detective (but I won't ruin that). Typical revenge story that doesn't have a lot of flashy action or effects, but still a good story with some deep symbolism about Britain.
Download it if you can't find it. I intend to try and buy it to support British film-making.
Here's the imdb summary, better than my rambling:
In England, the retired mariner Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge bar owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local gang of hoods is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289406/
Now, everyone that has a teevee maybe they heard about this and saw it in theaters, but I doubt it was played much in America.
I didn't even realize there was a major motion picture studio left in Britain, still not certain there is. Anyhow, on to the movie.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars. It was somewhat predictable and formulaic, but it felt like a much older movie. Y'know, before rainbow casts and political correctness took over everything. There is some of that here (the main bad boys are all white except 1) and there's a female lead detective (but I won't ruin that). Typical revenge story that doesn't have a lot of flashy action or effects, but still a good story with some deep symbolism about Britain.
Download it if you can't find it. I intend to try and buy it to support British film-making.
Here's the imdb summary, better than my rambling:
In England, the retired mariner Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge bar owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local gang of hoods is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands.