1. [Jordan] transforms here into a Hollywood hack, out to satisfy the lowest-common-denominator movie-exploitation prerequisites.
2. My one complaint about this otherwise excellent film involves the ending, which doesn't ring true to me.
3. Eventually we wake up. This is really just another Ms. .45 revenge flick, only with artistic pretensions.
4. We loved looking at the movie. The performances from Foster and Howard are absolutely terrific. What the hell any of it means escapes us.
5. It's lily-livered narrative cowardice, and I reject it.
6. It is vengeance porn dressed up as an important film, a reverse slasher movie feigning some weak pretense of meaning beyond its own bloodlust.
7. Two terrific lead actors under the direction of the estimable Jordan aren't enough to overcome the proven axiom that although you can make a bad movie from a good script, you can't make a good one from a bad one.
8. Some form of this eye-for-an eye argument could probably be made, but The Brave One never bothers to make it. Instead, it relies on sentiment, platitudes, plot holes and fear itself.
9. Less a brave movie than a foolhardy one. Trapped in a no man's land between seriousness and pulp trash, it plays like a combination of Death Wish and The Hours. If that sounds like an awkward fit, it is.
10. The likes of the great, loony Ms. 45 and dozens of Asian exploitation movies did [this subject] trashier. Yet, somehow, many of those felt more honest.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
Magnetic by between Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard can't quite compensate for The Brave One's problematic and unconvincing eye-for-an-eye moral.