Harry Brown: Blu Ray Review
Harry Brown
Rating: R18
Released by Warner Home Video
Caine is ex serviceman Harry Brown, who lives his life on a council
estate and getting by since being recently widowed.
His one real friend in life, fellow pensioner Leonard (David
Bradley) drinks with Harry but confides in him one day that he's
frightened and being terrorized by the estate's hoody
brigade.
When the police show up on his door - in the form of Emily
Mortimer's quiet and thoughtful DI Frampton - one day and tell him
that Leonard's been found in a local underpass brutally murdered,
Brown realizes that the fight against the lawless has come to his
door.
So he decides to take his own measures to ensure the clean up of
the estate begins.
Touted as the UK's answer to Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino and
Charles Bronson's Death Wish, there's certainly plenty of
similarities in this one man campaign for violent vengeance.
But it's thanks to Caine's studied and underplayed performance,
that it's more shocking when the quiet soulless eyed pensioner
Brown finally explodes into a murderous rampage.
Gritty and uncompromising, Harry Brown shows why Caine is still the
best at what he does.
Extras: Really, really disappointing here - simply
a few deleted scenes and some trailers - almost enough to make me
want to go Harry Brown on those behind the disc.
Rating: 7/10
