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Harry Brown

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United Kingdom · 2009
Rated R · 1h 43m
Director Daniel Barber
Starring Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Iain Glen, Lee Oakes
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Harry Brown, a retired Marine and a widower, lives alone on a depressed estate. His only company is his best friend Leonard. However, when Leonard is murdered by a gang of thugs, Harry is forced to exact justice on those responsible.

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Village Voice by

Director Daniel Barber's lame handwringing about the root causes of youthful alienation forms a thin veneer over the real purpose of this self-important piece of rubbish--to hold us hostage to the director's bottomless appetite for spurious depravity.

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Time Out by David Fear

We like our secondhand vengeance as sleazy and bloody as the next grindhouse fiend, but even an intentional throwback shouldn’t feel content to coast on so much déjà vu.

58

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Part punk-drab British art-house portrait of underclass despair, part bloody vigilante pic, Harry Brown is shakily held together by industrial-strength sound design and the expertly employed theatrics of Michael Caine in the title role.

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Observer by Rex Reed

Michael Caine is such a consummate actor that it's a major cause of concern to see him in Harry Brown, another hateful vigilante flick the wags in England have already labeled Dirty Harry Brown for reasons that are immediately obvious.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

This movie plays better than perhaps it should. Directed as a debut by Daniel Barber, it places story and character above manufactured "thrills" and works better.

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