| Harry Brown [DVD] [2009] | ![Harry Brown [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PuEfLOsxL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Daniel Barber
Actors: Michael Caine, Jamie Downey, Iain Glen, Raza Jaffrey, Amy Steel
Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  70 reviews
Format: PAL
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060052418753
ASIN: B002XWV3CC
Release Date: March 22, 2010
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 Excellent December 3, 2009
chelios1981 (Glos, England)
51 out of 52 found this review helpful
A very, very grim look at a London council estate, full of thuggish hoodies doing drug deals and fighting in the street, Harry brown is downbeat in all aspects. The camera work and lighting are a mix of shakey hand held, and monotone colours.
Michael Caine gives a pitch perfect performance as a quiet pensioner living among this hellish estate, watching from the windows of his flat the chaos around him. His quiet existence is shattered when his freind is beaten to death by the young thugs. Not long after he is confronted by one young scumbag and uses his old military skills to defend himself. From this point on it really is a case of Caine getting a gun and exacting revenge on the gang, eventually leading to a tension filled conclusion where few survive.
Whilst the subject matter is very grim, the film is so well constructed in story, characterisation, performances and direction, that it is an enjoyable movie experience. Be warned though this is full of very graphic violence, and bad language. Most people draw a comparison to this and Death wish, but it is actually closer in terms of look, feel and story of the Sean Bean thriller Outlaw.
Caine's best for along time December 22, 2009
PJ Rankine (Wallington, Surrey United Kingdom)
51 out of 54 found this review helpful
This is British cinema at its best. Michael Caine plays Harry Brown; a widowed ex-marine, who lives alone on one of South London's sink estates and keeps himself to himself. One day his one and only friend is murdered by the feral youths who run the estate and something in Harry snaps. He says early on that his military life was locked away and forgotten when he met his late wife and now it comes back with a vengeance as he seeks justice in his own way. Caine is outstanding as Harry Brown and portrays perfectly the hopelessness and loneliness of so many old people in this country today. No punches are pulled in displaying the futility of life on this estates either. Having worked in places like this it was very familiar and discomforting. When you watch this film in the comfort of your comfy living room remember that thousands of people live like this. This film doesn't glamourise violence and gun play in the way of so many American films but shows the desperate lengths that the hero goes to for justice when the police can't or won't get it for him. When Harry Brown gets a gun its because he sees the enemy has them, not because its a natural thing for him to do. If Caine doesn't get at least an Oscar nomination for this then there ain't no justice there either.
A UK Gran Torino?? No, It's Much Darker & Edgier... March 22, 2010
Adam Jackson (Stoke On Trent , England)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Great, gritty Brit movie! Caine is superb - as is his ill fated friend, David Bradley and I was reminded of the Noel Clarke Kid/Adulthood movies - although this is much darker, edgier and more violent.
Many comparisons have been made with Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino but for me they are superficial similiarites. Harry Brown is a harsher movie in many ways and less sentimental than Clint's masterpiece. More blood, knives and good old fashioned putting the boot in style scenes. It's scary stuff and all the more relevant if you have the misfortune to use subways on a regular basis!
Special mention to Joseph Gilgun (Eli Dingle in Emmerdale) and Sean Harris (Creep); these two guys play possibly the grimiest, nastiest, most revolting druggie dealers that I have ever seen. Absolute human scum. Great portrayals, lads! And Ben Drew AKA Plan B was good as street gang leader Noel Winters, with a particularly foul mouth (lots of the rather in vogue C word). The always excellent Liam Cunningham needs a mention for an excellent turn as the shadowy pub landlord, Sid Rourke.
It's Messrs Caine & Bradley though who take the honours as two almost lone stands of decency in a world that is literally decaying around them and eventually driven to drastic and bloody methods of retribution and revenge.
If you like this, I'd recommend a Brit movie from the early 90s called The Young Americans starring Harvey Keitel which treads similiar urban waters and look out for upcoming futuristic, London set thriller, Shank...
 Looks great, Caine's great, but credibility fades May 6, 2010
Kentspur
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Harry Brown is an enjoyable film that could have been really special if a little more discipline had been brought to the script. The director seems to be caught between two stools - a contemporary western set in South London and a more challenging study of violence and inner city despair.
The silly intro aside - shooting a woman pushing a pram - the opening part of the film is the most impressive. The bleak cinematography of what looked to me to be the Aylesbury Estate and the pub where Caine and his old chum play chess - wreathed in dust - were very striking. The initial arrest and questioning of the thugs in connection to the murder - cutting between each interrogation - was quite skilful too and the police tactics were seen as morally ambiguous - taunting the sexual abuse survivor - which gave the exchanges a certain gritty richness.
However when Caine goes off to get a gun and gets offered a Glock 17 - right off the bat - by the local marijauna pushers, you know it's going into fantasy. And, unfortunately, as the director still wants that authenticity established by earlier scenes, you don't get cartoonish fun, just improbability piled onto improbability.
Caine is - obviously - great, but this is no 'Get Carter' and those comparing it to the same need to go and watch the original again; a credible masterpiece. It's not actually as good as 'Gran Torino' where Clint Eastwood sends himself up. That film has far more engaging characters and the baddies are not utterly removed from reality as they are in this. You ever seen a hoodie with a Glock? Ever heard of that? Re-activated .22's maybe; state of the art weaponry available at the Dog and Duck? No.
Well worth seeing, if you can stick the violence, but there was such a good film to be made here if the director had just toned down the incredible 'Rambo' elements.
You failed..to maintain..your weapon!! August 7, 2010
A. E. Parsons (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Much has been said about the veracity, the overt gun-culture, and the "Bill" style police ~ but MC makes this film... especially the scenes he did with actors whom he thought were genuine junkie/villains. Enjoy it for what it is... and btw: CHAV is not an acronym..it's a word for a gypsy kiddie..now derogatory, once affectionate. God Bless!!
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