Almost immediately (in a New York minute, one might say), she encounters a string of sleazy murderers, thieves and perverts-all of whom are just itching to be gunned down. Traumatized by the encounter, Erica buys herself an illegal handgun from a back-alley merchant.
(The guy was perfect, they were crazy in love and the wedding invitations were already in the mail-the odds of him surviving past the first film reel were about as good as a police detective one day away from retirement.) Erica ends up in a coma and David ends up dead. Erica is an erudite booster of “The Safest Big City in the World,” at least until she and her hunky doctor fiancé David ( Naveen Andrews from “Lost”) are brutalized in Central Park by a trio of nasty street thugs. While it would seem a reactionary, NRA-loving action flick isn’t the sort of project that would attract a discerning Oscar winner like Jodie Foster, there are a few telltales signs that the well-acted, handsomely assembled project is reaching beyond the typical shoot- first- ask- questions- later crowd.įoster plays Erica, the host of an NPR-style radio show in which she waxes poetic about the New York City of yesteryear. What’s gotten into Hollywood lately? Are vigilantes suddenly chic again? Is CAA representing Bernie Goetz? Mere weeks after Kevin Bacon did his best Charles Bronson imitation in the bloody urban revenge drama Death Sentence, Jodie Foster is recruited for largely the same duty in The Brave One.
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