Excellent movie, made me feel very uncomfortable and even anxious. I can't imagine being afraid to walk around my own neighborhood. Michael Caine is just excellent here, with visions of Death Wish & Get Carter. Set in south London, Caine is a widower in his 70's, on medication for his emphysema and living in a dilapidated council flat on a rough estate. Drug dealers and gangsters rule his neighbourhood, the police (Emily Mortimer) are unable to make a difference. Harry meets his friend Len (David Bradley) at the pub, they play chess, Len is afraid and then Len is killed by drug dealers. Harry is tired of being afraid and with nothing left to lose, rediscovers his forgotten military past, embarking on a revenge campaign against some very bad dudes who don't realize who they've come up against. This is a gritty, violent, revenge thriller. I was kinda blown away by Michael Caine, he is just awesome.

A solid flick and Caine never gives a bad performance but...Yes, there is always the but.The Death Wish films with Bronsan directed by Winner, especially the first two were purer, less preachy, directed less like a Midieval morality tale, and generally more entertaining.After the purpose of film is first to entertain, and the lecture on the evils of society only gets in if the first purpose is met.There are others in this type from the UK and some are better than this. I recall one where the middle-aged brother of an ex-gang member is killed and the brother (sort of a Kray type) comes back from Spain to find the killer. What he finds instead is a lot of young punks who have taken over his old neighbourhood and think they invented crime and have no respect for their elders. They soon learn otherwise.That one did not have Michael Caine. But it was a better film

Harry Brown is a a decent movie with a reasonably well developed storyline and a good cast. The main reason I am giving this such a low rating is because I found it to be an unpleasant experience, it's very gritty and surreal, something I didn't expect from this cast, I felt in complete discomfort for the majority of the film. Michael Caine is certainly the highlight of the movie, though I found seeing this violence with him on screen unpleasant, he does potray his character very naturally and steps in to Harry Brown's shoes with pure class. The characters were certainly a huge issue, I didn't find a single one likable, the bad guys were bad guys, and the good guys were basically bad guys as well, it's very hard to follow a film when you aren't truly supporting a single character. It's certainly not terrible, but Harry Brown is a weird film experience that I wouldn't recommend. An elderly former marine exacts revenge on a group of teenagers who killed his only companion. Best Performance: Michael Caine Worst Performance: Joseph Gilgun

"Harry Brown," a feature film debut from the director Daniel Barber gets to introduces us to a man at his wits' end, a man who doesn't know what happened to the world he used to know — and very determined to take action, however violent and bloody. And while the movie at times loses credibility (this "vigilante pensioner" seems to have many extra lives) and isn't easy to watch, it haunts the viewer with its details of life under siege. But at the center of this extremely violent revenge drama — almost a Western movie, ending up with a saloon shooting — is something quiet: two delicate, heartfelt performances matching each other, Emily Mortimer and Caine, master of gentle sadness.