the brave one be about a new york radio show host name erica bain ( jodie foster ) . her life be a dream living in the city she grow up in and love . she have her great fiancé david ( naveen andrew ) and whom she be plan to marry . but one night while erica and david be out walk their dog and they be attack and mug by a group of degenerate and leave david dead . erica recovers but be heartbroken and traumatize later on and and can barely cope with real life anymore . she buy a gun off a guy on the street for protection . but one day she shop in a store and and a man come in and shoot the clerk dead . it be then that erica shoot and kill this man and and she become a vigilante . kill anyone who try to threaten or harm her or any others . at the same time detective mercer ( terrence howard ) be track down this elusive unknown killer and and in the process become friend with erica . erica begin to regain her sanity a she kill these violent people and but be unsure of whether or not what she do be morally right . and a her and mercer become closer and he doesn not even realize the unknown murderous assailant be right next to him . jodie foster give a very good performance in the brave one . she portray this type of violent and morally corrupt character brilliantly . terrence howard be also great in this movie . both have excellent chemistry together and and strengthen the film to a certain level . the brave one look visually pristine and and convey some brilliant camera work and but not all of it work to a great effect . the scene where erica be absolutely traumatize and afraid to walk out her front door to face the world . the camera sway back and forth to the side in an almost dream like way and and really capture the moment with essence . whereas almost every time erica kill somebody and everything just have to go slo mo and show her facial expression in fine detail . the slo mo be properly use when erica commit her first murder . but why keep do this effect almost every time she commit murder . the camera work create a great atmosphere in most of the film and but there a few scene here that be just plain overkill . the brave one be very much about how these murder affect erica emotionally . her fiancé be kill by a group of thug and and suddenly her love of new york city be turn upside down . she realize that there be a dark side to the beloved city and and she say so on her radio show . i do not completely understand this though . erica act a if she never realize that violence can occur at night in the city and and that pretty stupid . if she live there all her life she must be either blind or very oblivious . erica also seem to be a glutton for inhumane and murderous people . she really doesn not even have to go look for them and they just to come to her a if theyre begging to be shoot dead for their wrong do . the brave one deal with the moral and proper use of violence strongly at first and and then suddenly it glorify it . the end be very negative and and completely immoral and inhumane . it also negate the purpose of terrence howard character and which the movie spend so much time try to evenly develop and and suddenly his moral take a u turn . the moral in the brave one become very fractured and and just plain shatter all over the place by the end . so violence be okay . it a good thing to commit murder as long a it for vengeance . i pretty much refuse to believe that . you know why . because i have a conscience and which this film surely lack . it be not right to take the life of another person and no matter how bad they be and or how much you hate them . erica bain set out to stop these evil doer and but in the end she be no good than the horrible people she kill . jodie foster and terrence howard provide a lot of strength for this movie . the brave one contain a strong message and but that message be both immoral and wrong . this movie may look pretty and well act and and intelligently strong . but it become pretty rotten by the end . i give the brave one a 1 . 5 out of 4. the message be very out of line and morally incorrect and and really can not be save by the good acting .