Starring: Michael Caine (born 1933) Veteran Actor of Note.
and Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles.
Michael Caine's stellar performance is the high point of the film, Harry Brown. The low point is everything else. This is a film that humbles us all by its omission of the names, identity, history of those Harry Brown(Michael Caine) chooses to murder in cold blood because they are interfering in the enjoyment of his less than idyllic life style.
His vigilante solution to the social problems of the London youth who are unemployed permanently due to lack of jobs and poor education and the strength of the English caste system(although they don't call it that) reduces us all to infinitesimal specks in this densely populated, colossally huge World.
It is frightening to think that any major film company would spend over 100 million dollars to put on the screen a film of this dubious quality and anticipate a profit. I know this vigilante type behavior has been sanctioned with the bombing of Iraq and Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Drone plans but there is still something grotesque in the shooting in cold blood without due process and hopefully there always will be.
This display of random killing without personal provocation earns my award for "shame on you" films that should never have been made.
Warning: This film might incite dangerous/unacceptable/anti-social behavior in those Under 21 and those particularly prone to mimicry
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