Harry Brown is a recent British film starring the well-known actor Michael Caine. Caine has starred in other notorious films such as 'The Italian Job' and 'Get Carter'.
As Harry Brown, Caine plays an elderly ex-royal navy marine who takes on a congregation of yobs that terrorised his friend to death. As Police are not efficient enough in dealing with the gang, Brown takes the matter into his own hands and takes a vigilante approach to avenge the loss of his friend. He uses the group's own violent, intimidating, manner to punish them one by one.
This film, like other Michael Caine films, is extremely gritty and opens the eyes of a viewer that is unaware of urbanised culture that is idolized by naive adolescents. It displays crimes which are graphic, extremely intense and shocking.
The film has a sense of nostalgia as it almost praises the era of the second world war and suggests that the crimes shown would not have occurred in Britain in that period.
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