Xamonas Chegwé wrote:tattuchu wrote:Harry Brown, Michael Caine's vigilante revenge film. Very well done, and I love Michael Caine. Kinda depressing, though. The message of the film seems to be: If your neighborhood is infested with scumbags, as it inevitably will be, kill all the scumbags and don't expect the cops to help you.
I liked that film in places. Plan B (Ben Drew) was fucking OSSUM as the gang leader. But the police were depicted as pathetically inept and one-dimensional and so much about it spoke of the Daily Mail reader's view of an inner-city estate, rather than any version of reality.
All of that I could cope with - but the fucking cringeworthy closing scene where Caine walks through the subway was such a fucking HUGE cliché that it sent the film from C+ to D- in my estimation. How anyone could watch that scene without puking is a mystery to me!
Wit, what? By subway, do you mean the underpass? If so, I don't understand. It seemed a natural ending. He'd never been able to walk through it before, and there was an important scene in the film that showed him wanting to walk through, hesitating, and then deciding against it (when he was on his way to the hospital to see his dying wife). So for him to finally, at the end, be able to walk through safely made perfect sense to me. He walked toward it, almost went around like he'd always done before, stopped, hesitated, realized it was finally safe for a change, and walked though. I thought it was well done
But, yeah, I know what you mean about the film being somewhat exploitative and pandering to the baser instincts of the masses. It's like when I watched Jodie Foster in The Brave One. Love Jodie Foster to bits. But I was like, "Not...sure...if...I...should...like...this...?"
No idea who Plan B is, but agree he was very effective in the role as lead scumbag
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