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 Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: Harry Brown | Film review |
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<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.20.3/67713?ns=guardian&pageName=Harry+Brown+%7C+Film+review%3AArticle%3A1305036&ch=Film&c3=Obs&c4=Film%2CMichael+Caine%2CCulture+section&c6=Philip+French&c7=09-Nov-15&c8=1305036&c9=Article&c10=Review&c11=Film&c13=&c25=&c30=content&h2=GU%2FFilm%2FMichael+Caine" width="1" height="1" /></div><p>Michael Caine does his diamond-geezer, heart-of-gold cockney bit as Harry Brown, a recently widowed, former Royal Marine driven to despair by the young thugs terrorising the sink estate he lives on in south London.</p><p>The last straw comes when his elderly best mate is beaten to death by vicious, unemployed teenagers high on drugs. Before you can say Asbo or Bronson, Harry has acquired a little arsenal and proceeds to get medieval on the asses of the neighbourhood tearaways, whom he thinks worse than the terrorists he confronted in the services. This is a vigilante movie, impure and simple, with lip-licking bloodbaths and unconcealed contempt for law and order. It's better than any of the five<em> Death Wish</em> films, mainly because Caine is a very good actor and he pulls off some fine moments, especially when confronting earnest Detective Inspector Emily Mortimer.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/michael-caine">Michael Caine</a></li></ul></div><div class="guRssAdvert"><a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yes&site=Film&spacedesc=rss&system=rss&transactionID=12582693009646917567986142658740"><img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yes&site=Film&spacedesc=rss&system=rss&transactionID=12582693009646917567986142658740" border="0" /></a></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/philipfrench">Philip French</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" />
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