45, yet it seems unnecessarily cruel to hold the riches of Abel Ferrara’s classic B, about a mute woman who is raped twice (!) in one day and subsequently enacts revenge on any man who annoys the shit out of her, against this lousy corporate facsimile. You can’t talk about The Brave One without bringing up Ms. But The Brave One, which suggests something tailored for people who buy their CDs at coffee shops and approve of how Rudy Giuliani pimped out Times Square to the Disney Company, is a hack work whose bad habits seem as if they couldn’t possibly have been cobbled together by someone responsible for such exquisite works of art as The Butcher Boy and The End of the Affair. That film’s hieratic style was a delirious expression of its main character’s psychological turmoil and, to a certain extent, a reflection of Jordan’s frustrations as an artist at the time. Jordan is no stranger to mainstream moviemaking, but even his unfairly disparaged In Dreams had a personality identifiable as his own. It hurts to see Neil Jordan’s name attached to something as deplorable as The Brave One.

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