Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Eric266 My wife wanted to watch this because she's a Jason Mamoa fan. I watched because I'm a fan of my wife. Both my wife and I were not disappointed.Mamoa is Joe Braven, a logging employee who wants to spend some time in his log cabin with his dementia-suffering father (Stephen Lang). Unfortunately, one of his buddies has stashed a large quantity of drugs he's smuggling in the cabin and the owners of the drugs come looking for it. This leads to a standoff between Braven, his dad, his daughter, and the drug dealers.There is not a lot of new ground covered here. Still, the action is tense, the characters are appealing, and the plot never lets up. Mamoa has a certain screen presence that women adore and men admire. He's both hulking and sensitive at the same time, quite a feat. I enjoyed the movie, even though many of the characters do stuff that only dumb movie characters do.Still, the movie has it charm. Its worth a look.

jlee-89018 Great movie with everything you need to be entertained and touched; family, action, revenge, bravery, etc.

Terry Williams The film Braven has plenty in it. I don't want to spoil it for anyone. I'll just say it is one of the better films of the year. It's probably one of the better films you'll see in general. It does start off slow, but smartly so to build it up. When it gets moving you find yourself getting more and more engrossed. Not that I was underestimating this movie, it's just that it was more than I expected. Glad I gave it a chance and I highly recommend that you do the same. You won't be disappointed.

Eric Foster After seeing the trailer for "Braven" it didn't inspire me to want to check it out. After seeing the ratings starting to climb on Amazon Prime Video (it was at 4 stars when I viewed the movie last week and has since dropped to 3.5) and then seeing an, at the time of my viewing, score of 6.6 on IMDB I decided to give it a fair chance. As the movie began I started to see a very tired overdone plot beginning to unfold. The, 'oh no, we need to stash our drug haul somewhere and come back for it later' routine. And of course, they stash it in what they are led to believe is a cabin that won't be in use. But, as usual, the cabin does become occupied hours later and it becomes a battle between the drug lord and his gang to get their stash back from the cabin owners.Early on we are introduced to our potential "hero", Joe Braven (a lack-luster, Jason Momoa whose acting leaves MUCH to be desired), and his wife, young daughter and aging father who seems to be having the onset of dementia. Now, if you are a fan of action movies of this sort you would immediately figure that at some point in the movie one of the four of them will eventually die (there's almost always a sacrifice of some sort in these tired plots to "beef up" our hero's rage for revenge), or possibly a hostage will be taken to start the rage. Now, I will say that I was happy to see that not all of what I was expecting to unfold did. There were a few pleasant surprises. However, those did not out-weigh the ridiculousness of the overall poor movie.THE GOOD POINTS = The female lead, Braven's wife, Stephanie (Jill Wagner) and Braven's father, Linden (Stephen Lang) gave good performances. The score was alright.THE BAD POINTS = Jason Momoa's acting. The unexplained reasoning for a drug lord to smuggle drugs from a mountaintop in the first place. The poorly run drug gang who could have ended everything in the blink of an eye. But of course that would have made for a very short movie. The stupidity of some of the decisions of the police and the mother towards the end of the movie. (Yeah, let's run through the mountain range with our young daughter in open view to possibly be taken out instead of keeping her in the safety of the police SUV) The mind boggling time frame edits. (how is it that two men are chasing each other at one moment within VERY close distance of one-another and then seconds later one of them reaches an area with enough time to stop, devise a plan, carry it out and then turn around to wait for the other one to catch up?) And then, the ending confrontation. I'm not going to go into how unbelievably stupid the final ten minutes or so of this movie was because I would have to give everything away but let's just say it defies logic on SO many levels. Seeing as how this movie only mustered up a grand total $ 312,116 at the theatrical box office, and let me add that ALL of that income came from the international market, absolutely ZERO came domestically, we will, more than likely, never see a "Braven 2", at least let's hope not!