- Holy crap was this movie depressing.
- The completely random act of gun violence at the start made me pretty ill, especially since we saw it as a crappy iPhone video recorded by one of the hooligans to preserve their obvious awesomeness for posterity. Gross.
- And then the violence got worse from there. It was, mercifully, not overly graphic (by my standards) but since the random shooting at the start set the tone for alienating and pointless violence early on, the lack of motive for any of the violence made it way worse than the explicit violence you find in other movies.
- I know Harry is an ex Marine and all but he makes a lot of not terribly well thought out decisions. Yes, just stroll into an opium den looking for illegal guns to purchase, that’s a great idea.
- Speaking of which, the miscreants who ran said drug emporium were absolutely horrific, culminating in the fact that they apparently just casually sit around watching home made porn of Miscreant #1 raping some poor woman in a drug coma before he finishes and lets Miscreant #2 have a go. Ugh.
- Miscreant #1 is a moderately creative person, though, because he managed to turn his gun into a crack pipe. I presume, given that I have no familiarity with crack or crack pipes, so I’m only guessing here.
- This movie seems a little apolitical on poverty as a leading cause of crime and violence given that the whole thing is set in derelict council housing. It’s hinted at a couple of times whenever the locals complain that they get no help from the police or paramedics when they report violence in the neighbourhood, but ultimately Harry decides that these kids are just violent for sport. Which is true, of course, but certainly there are a variety of other factors that lead to that boredom and dissociation with general humanity.
- The score kept reminding me of Blade Runner for some reason.
- Is it less shocking for people to say “cunt” in British films than in American films? It always seems to come with less baggage when used by Brits.
- When Len showed his knife to Harry, I almost died laughing. I just love the idea of someone taking on a gang of thugs with a bayonet.
- I know I wasn’t very cool when I was a teenager, so maybe that’s why I don’t understand why it’s super cool to hang out in an underground pedestrian walkway. Or to wear sweatpants in public.
Harry Brown
Super intense and I hope to never watch it again.
IMDB Plot Synopsis An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
I thought this movie was hysterical. OOOOH THOSE KIDS THESE DAYS AND THEIR IPHONES AND SUBTERRANEAN TUNNELS!