Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

dylanb-23290 Michael Caine may be known for his uncanny role as batman's butler. However, in the case of this film, a different role is portrayed.A brilliant story which is highly akin to real world scenarios and that makes you happy about the 'saddistic' way that revenge takes place within Mr Brown's character.Drugs, sex, illicit arms and hooligan-style bullying are the main topics of this film. After the inevitable loss of his wife and the horrific loss of his lifelong friend, Mr Attwell, Mr Brown transforms from the most humble and gentle being to the most quick-witted 70-year old marine revenge guy. His subtle and calm voice as opposed to the actions taken in getting his revenge play a pivotal role in the brilliant performance; a very bright contrast that compliment each other perfectly.Every decision taken leads to having safe streets once again. It may be used as a symbolism, that sometimes personal action is required as those who are supposed to do the work are dull-hearted.A very brilliant film, that illustrates the real world through the eyes of a ex-marine widower, where the lost love of his dearest ones, pushed him over the edge to take control of the situation at hand.A must watch film!

emilywes56 Let's start with the fact that I am really fascinated while I am watching British cinema. I am not completely aware of the political history of this country but I understand that many times the theme of British movies has exceptionally political content, sometimes with great humor, too. I liked Michael Caine in the Batman movies, directed by Christopher Nolan. I thought and still believe that the role of butler- housekeeper was the most suitable for his figure and looks. In this movie the main character repulses me. While I watched the whole movie, I realized that director wants to present us how it is in modern society today to live in the sink estates of Britain, while the main protagonist Harry Brown is living alone and suddenly he loses his male friend Len, who is killed by the gangs of aggressive and violent teens. When Harry was younger he was in the marines at war plus in the movie his wife and daughter are dead, while he is living all alone in a sink estate apartment. In this area, young teens are trafficking drugs for money, girls and often harass people who are just passing by "their" covered walkway. For me this movie was violent enough, and one thing strikes my mind. There is one scene that Mark (Jack O'Connell) gives blow job in his own uncle inside his car. Mark is one of the boys that killed Harry's best friend, Len. The scene where Harry Brown abducts Marky and hits him, hurt me the most, because we can see crystal clear that the family of this child push him more and more in the darkness and the system itself has abandoned him, has destroyed his childhood irredeemable. The violence, the hate, the hostility starts from withing the family bonds and that is the main structure that has to change. But the solution that is given, Harry Brown takes revenge for his friend and seek justice, pays murder with murder, without having any concern or feeling sorry about his manslaughter. The circle goes on again.

FilmBuff1994 Harry Brown is a a decent movie with a reasonably well developed storyline and a good cast. The main reason I am giving this such a low rating is because I found it to be an unpleasant experience, it's very gritty and surreal, something I didn't expect from this cast, I felt in complete discomfort for the majority of the film. Michael Caine is certainly the highlight of the movie, though I found seeing this violence with him on screen unpleasant, he does potray his character very naturally and steps in to Harry Brown's shoes with pure class. The characters were certainly a huge issue, I didn't find a single one likable, the bad guys were bad guys, and the good guys were basically bad guys as well, it's very hard to follow a film when you aren't truly supporting a single character. It's certainly not terrible, but Harry Brown is a weird film experience that I wouldn't recommend. An elderly former marine exacts revenge on a group of teenagers who killed his only companion. Best Performance: Michael Caine Worst Performance: Joseph Gilgun

grainstorms Harry Brown (Michael Caine), an aging chess-playing widower, lives by himself in a deteriorating low-income London housing project, a vast Soviet-like expanse of ugly crumbling gray-brown concrete block- towers of depressing apartments, sterile walkways, uninviting communal spaces and shadowy underpasses terrorized by violent young drug peddlers. Too dreary to be called Hell, it's really a form of limbo where drab, sad people try to get through another day without too much grief, scurrying past each other with just a nod and a word, because to dawdle here is to invite an encounter with pain, or worse. We are no longer in England's green and pleasant land, but a nasty place that is disintegrating and rotting.In fact, the housing project most closely resembles a prison, its tenants kept cut off from the rest of society. It's hard to travel to and from this bad place. It sits alone, as quarantined as a radioactive test site. As isolated as the other tenants, Harry minds his own business, keeps to himself. Aside from a pint and a game of chess in the local pub, he has little to do with his neighbors, even ignoring the occasional scream in the night. He keeps a wary eye on the scum around him, but steers clear of them. After all, he is a quiet old man. But after a gang of punks murder his one friend in the world, his chess partner (David Bradley, the grumpy Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch from the Harry Potter franchise), Harry takes things into his own hands - - old hands which have never quite lost their very special skill. For withdrawn and soft-spoken old Harry is in reality a retired and heavily decorated NCO in the Royal Marines. There is no nice way to put it: Harry Brown is a resourceful and remorseless angel of death. After a number of dealers are found floating in their own gore, a smart but somewhat brittle detective inspector, played by Emily Mortimer, focuses on Harry as the murderer. She sees revenge as the motive. But her bosses are not eager to spotlight a vengeance killing which might give self-help ideas to a public under siege. Instead they throw police resources into halting an imaginary gang war. A massive night-time riot in the housing project results in a pitched and amazingly confused gun battle, with a plot bombshell or two thrown in to stir the pot further.Now "Harry Brown" could be enjoyed as your standard-issue vigilante slaughter fest/vengeance-killer thriller, and on that bloodthirsty level it does grab you by the throat and forces you to total and horrified concentration as the body count gets higher. You'll be cheering the right side, of course. The bad guys are loathsome and frightening and do horrible things to helpless people. No socially redeeming qualities at all. Make no mistake: for all of Caine's nuanced acting, a riveting soundtrack and the camera's documentary-like surveillance, director Daniel Barber has composed a neatly deranged movie in the Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood tradition of heavy caliber do-it-yourself cesspool cleaning. In the grand tradition of revenge thrillers, one of the movie's most ominous lines is delivered by Caine as a grandfatherly admonition that becomes the last word in terror: "You failed to maintain your weapon." But "Harry Brown" is more than a day trip to the Carnage Carnival.It's a master class in film acting. And this moves the movie several notches up, from a murder spree to a must-see. Caine, an awesome actor whose talent and range from "Alfie" to "Zulu" and beyond have magically kept expanding and deepening, brings a touching dignity to the role of old codger Harry Brown. There's another side to this senior citizen as well -- a coiled- spring watchfulness that, when it suddenly turns into brute action, leaves you both gasping and cheering. The violence may take you off guard, but it does play fair. Upon reflection, you'll realize the safety valve was ready to pop, even if you couldn't read the signs. Michael Caine hides nothing from you. "The camera catches everything you do, so don't be afraid to play things subtly." (Sir Michael Caine) Watch the way Caine tells you that Harry Brown is lonely. He moves quietly through his little apartment, taking great care to clean up after eating his miserable little meals. Mostly, though, he just sits, waiting. And it tears your heart out, as you realize just alone he is. "Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser." (Sir Michael Caine) Through a restrained build-up of his character, Caine keeps the movie from turning into a geriatric version of "Death Wish," or even his own iconic "Get Carter," a template for revenge thrillers. Harry does what he does because that's who he is. Pummeled by life, rejected and dejected, he still has internal resources that he can call upon, even though they may be cruel and terrible."Harry Brown" may not be especially socially significant, but it does have a lesson for you to take away: Don't leave a bag of guns around for some sweet old guy to stumble over. Somebody might get hurt.