Braven 2018

     Joe Braven lives in Canada and he is a logging company owner.  His father Linden is suffering from dementia.  Joe Linden mistakes a woman in a bar for his wife.  This causes a barroom brawl that lands Linden in the hospital.  Joe and his family decide to take a break at their secluded log cabin.  They run into trouble with a drug dealer.  He wants to use Joe’s business as a front for his cocaine operation.

     This is an action movie like almost every other so-so action movie.  Fill in all the gaps with a lot of brutality, okay performances, some tension, terrible dialogue and a minimal plot.  It gets more mind numbing as it moves along!!  There are a LOT of weapons, sniper rifles, knives, axes, fireplace tongs, arrows, smashed bottles and pitchers.  I really don’t like films with the main theme of violence.  I just get tired of watching!!  I’d rather count paperclips, match socks and perform other tasks not requiring any thinking!!   2* (I didn’t like this movie)

   

94 min, Action directed by Lin Oeding with Jason Momoa, Garret Dillahunt, Jill Wagner, Stephen Lang, Sasha Rossof, Sala Baker, Fraser Aitcheson, Teach Grant, Glenn Ennis, Todd Scott, Zahn McClarnon, Brendan Fletcher, James Harvey Ward, Steve O’Connell, Tye Alexander.

Note:  Imdb 6.1 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes 77% critic 78% audience, Roger Ebert Nick Allen 2 ½*, Metacritic 61 out of 100 with 10 critics (7 positive, 2 mixed, 1 negative) 5.7 out of 10 user scores with 30 ratings (9 positive, 18 mixed, 3 negative), Slant Magazine Derek Smith 2 ½* out of 4*, Common Sense Media Brian Costello age 17+, 5* violence, 1* sex, 4* language, 3* drinking, drugs & smoking, Amazon Video 3.7* out of 5* with 1271 reviews.  

Special Note:  Jason Momoa was also in Aquaman.  Filmed in Newfoundland, Canada.  Two of the henchmen are named Ridley and Essington.  These are the names of two towns in South Eastern Pennsylvania.  They are located in Delaware County just south of the Philadelphia International Airport.

Mistakes:  Joe has a bad bruise under his right eye from the fight in the bar but it quickly disappears.  Weston and Hallett have an accident with a truck in the night.  When they get to the cabin, it’s daylight.  When they return to the accident, it should not be night again?  The sequence happens all in the same night?  When Jason Mamoa hides his daughter in a small compartment, he lights and electric lamp in the compartment.  Supposedly, there is no electricity in the cabin?  Braven’s shoes are completely different at 1:20 when he runs after the bad guy from the garage where he picked up a rope.  An actor supposedly, dead has a very noticeable full body shiver?