Promising premise turns to a stale fart of a movie. Its Gran Turino directed by two 8 year old English boys... And the unlikely finale seemed like it was slapped on from a different film.

Effective and brutal vigilante movie, that suffers from the genre's usual moral ambiguity. But Caine was marvellous.

Harry Brown is the british version of Gran Torino but unlike Gran Torino Harry Brown is much more dramatic. There is no subtle jokes thrown in the middle, it is about revenge and how one man wants to make people pay. Michael Caine is convincing in the lead role and he does a great job of portraying Harry Brown on a human level. Emily Moritimer is good as well. Solid movie, but its only drawback is its been done before.

Caine has nestled comfortably as the sage advisor in Nolan's films, but it's nice to see him return to more angry and desperate role. His performance maintains a nice balance between vulnerability and badassery. The plot is fairly typical Death Wish fare - the villains are perhaps starker and less cartoonish, but they still almost one-dimensional.

Michael Caine as a septuagenarian vigilante fucking up a gang of hoody wearing twats in the council estate? Yes, please. Caine's most riveting performance in years.

Gran torino meets Taken? The result - pretty good debut movie for Daniel Barber

Not the very best in it's genre of old people kicking ass. (Taken and Gran Torino are much better). And in the field of a vigilante on a death path it has a lot in common with Death Sentence, it's just one kill after the other. Lucky for us, and the movie, it is Michael Caine who is kicking ass.

Dobry thriller. Jedyna rysa jest slabiutki, banalny watek dzielnej policjantki i jej zlego szefa.

Damn, Caine is good. I love how he goes Rorschach style berserk. I got goose bumps during the scene, when he is buying guns. I could freaking smell that shit hole.

caine still gets it done, even as a vigilante pensioner. cunningham was notable for his portrayal of sid as well. recommended.

It is vicious, it is vile but in the end it is ruined by the way it quickly escalates into a Medal Of Honor game in modern UK; killings, explosions, general mayhem. Caine performs expectedly well but his surroundings just won't work with him, sadly. I love how gritty it is though, and how well it portrays a mans struggle against a world that is so foreign to him. The powerful message contained personally plays out the rather flat filming but it is still a movie that is not quite there.

An intense look at England's dark underbelly through the eyes of an elderly pensioner with nothing to lose and all hell to give.

"Harry's world is the apocalypse that far-right-wingers normally need romantics like Cormac McCarthy to dream up." - Simon Abrams

Caine's a superb actor -- nobody sneers with uglier, angrier menace-but his lack of standards has landed him in so many rotten movies that his act-aholic presence is distracting throughout.

A terrible, unpleasant mess of a film.

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Huge disappointment. Caine is a pimp, but come on.

Well made, a bleak portrait of generations growing apart in the suburbs in the UK. I fount this film fascinating for its way of showing violence and the way we sometimes think of other without compromising. An insight into what's happening around us now.

Not as violent as it really should be but it's Michael Caine killing off chavs, I shouldn't be too picky.

I love Michael Caine as a crotchety old vigilante.

Vomitously right wing.

A Gripping vigilante movie. It has been done many times before but Caine is brilliant. The beginning was very powerful and if it had ended on the floor in the pub that would have made more impact.

I found parts of this film to be rather slow, but as a whole, it was entertaining. It's awesome to see old people kicking the shit out of little shits.

This is more realistic than your usual Hollywood revenge film. The whole movie depends on Michael Cain and he is excellent in the lead role. If you are a fan of revenge movies or Cain then definitely check this one out.

not unlike gran torino in the concept of a geriatric widower deciding to right society's wrongs, but differs in that harry brown doesn't justify anything, doesn't have any empathy, and is just plain more hard assed than eastwood was. he shows no mercy and is utterly brutal, in action only, he keeps his calm quite well and maintains a level voice for the most part, the outcome pulls it together quite well.

A beautiful 1st act, a glimpse of Caine rampaging the fuck out of hoodlums in the 2nd, and a totally lost 3rd act. A good debut for Barber, but struggles to move beyond the mature beginning with a completely underdeveloped supporting cast. Caine is the man though.

Great performance of Michael Caine, as always! He didn't play the character but he truly made me believe every second of it. I even felt sorry for his loss and felt outrageous over the death of his best friend.

It's true that this film wouldn't be as watchable without Michael Caine in this rare outing of badassery, but c'est la vie. Solid tension and suspense is made, and even if it drifts for a moment here or there, it remained an engaging thriller. Caine, of course, is the man to thank for most of this. On a last note, I know this film likely had a low budget, but I wish filmmakers would stop using CGI blood. I thought it looked bad in The Departed, of course it looks terrible here. Use squibs!

I believe that the acting in this film bt=rings this movie head and shoulders above other films amout drug use damaging society.Michael Caine was excellent and the actors who portraid the depraved drug dealer in the marijuana house were an important reason for the success of this movie.

I really hate British teenagers, they are the worst thing. Michael Caine obliterating them is a good thing. DARK REVIEW. One thing I love about British films is the abundance of tea cups in every scene.