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THE BRAVE ONE

By ROB TURBOVSKY

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Aside from a tiny part in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement, Jodie Foster has been in just five movies in the last decade, a list that includes Flightplan and Anna and the King, and proves that when you're picking between "quality" and "quantity," you can easily choose "none of the above." Considering its star and its director (The Crying Game's Neil Jordan), there's some hope that The Brave One will be more than what it looks like, which is an insane, feminist retelling of Death Wish with Foster in the Charles Bronson role. Here, her dark-skinned boyfriend (Naveen Andrews) is killed by some damned hoodlums, and Foster sets out for justice with a lot of guns and not so much patience. (In other words, it's Giuliani time.) After this and Panic Room, I'd like to ask Foster if she ever gets tired of kicking ass -- but not to her face, because I'm afraid she'd kill me.

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