Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

torstensonjohn The film is a British version of Death Wish in many capacities, with the stellar Michael Caine as Harry brown leading the way. Taking place in London in harsh quarters as the streets ae being taken over and ran by youth gangs, Harry Brown takes it upon himself to clean it up after a friend is brutally murdered. The film capitalizes on Caine's delivery and raw emotion as he ventures in the vigilante psyche. I thought in general the film was nicely paced and although predictable it shined through with a great screenplay. I give this a 7 out of 10.

juneebuggy Excellent movie, made me feel very uncomfortable and even anxious. I can't imagine being afraid to walk around my own neighborhood. Michael Caine is just excellent here, with visions of Death Wish & Get Carter. Set in south London, Caine is a widower in his 70's, on medication for his emphysema and living in a dilapidated council flat on a rough estate. Drug dealers and gangsters rule his neighbourhood, the police (Emily Mortimer) are unable to make a difference. Harry meets his friend Len (David Bradley) at the pub, they play chess, Len is afraid and then Len is killed by drug dealers. Harry is tired of being afraid and with nothing left to lose, rediscovers his forgotten military past, embarking on a revenge campaign against some very bad dudes who don't realize who they've come up against. This is a gritty, violent, revenge thriller. I was kinda blown away by Michael Caine, he is just awesome.

Cheese Hoven I remember watching films like Dirty Harry and Death Wish in the 1970s and thinking that America must be a seriously messed up place to produce violence like this. England at the time was still a fairly genteel place, although crime was massively on the rise. Sadly, some 40 years on, I wish I could say that this film is a ludicrous over the top version of Modern Britain, but, from my own experience, I don't think it is.Therefore, politically, I think the film is bang on. However, aesthetically it is rather lacking.Only one sequence stands out as a striking cinematic vision. This is when Harry Brown visits a couple of coked up gun dealers. He enters a subterranean world, a little bit of hell on earth and part of the power of this sequence is that the dealers are too drugged up to realise the level of degradation about them. This section is extremely well shot and acted by all concerned.The other parts of this fail to approach this level. Much of the film looks like it could have been made for TV. True, the scenes of the 'youths' being interrogated are energetic and realistically written with four letter words in every sentence, but generally the police scenes are rather dull and empty. The caring female PC and her officious male superior are too cliché ridden (and politically correct) to be effective. The writing of these characters just seems to be going through the motions.The final bloody shoot-out again fails to convict, while the conclusion just has a dangling unfinished feel.

kevin white If taken as a bit of fantasy fun loosely based on what are proportionately very rare events in London - then all good and well. However, when viewed by fantasists as an accurate representation of life in London then, not so good.It's just a concentration of the worst bits of London life strung together for entertainment purposes. I was born in London and have lived across its roughest bits and the vast majority of my elderly British neighbours, despite a bit of recreational moaning which we all enjoy, for the best part live happily alongside their neighbours, young and old and of all races. Most have had and still have the option to move out to live with family but they love where they live so much they don't want to.Of course London has crime, always has done. And in Michael Caine's day murderers and torturers were some of the most revered and 'respected' people in the community - and no they didn't just hurt their own - it was anyone who they took a dislike to.The film's not worth the electricity used to display it on an an LED TV in eco mode.