So Jason Momoa is yummy. I used to watch Battlestar Galactic just for him. When I saw this movie in the Prime free movies, I jumped at the chance. Last Sunday it was rainy and nasty all day long. I napped and watched Braven.
The premise is that Joe Braven, is a logger (in Canada?). His dad has been having memory problems since a traumatic injury and he decides it's time to confront his dad about it. He's got a little cabin out in the woods where he takes his dad to discuss these issues. One of Joe Braven's coworkers, the truck driver, is also smuggling drugs in a hollowed out log. The semi crashes during a winter storm, it's close to Joe's cabin. He stashes the drugs there for safe keeping, until he can come back. He is accompanied by all the big bad drug traffickers on a retrieval mission. Unlucky for them, Joe and his dad have already arrived. The drug dealers just want to kill them and take the drugs, but Joe and his dad aren't going down without a fight. There's also another problem, Joe's daughter stow-awayed in the back of the truck and came to the cabin too. And, as you can see by the picture above, there is a big show down.
It's a pretty typical action movie. Guy, against all odds, defeats bad guys and saves the day. It didn't mean that it wasn't entertaining. Hell, Hallmark movies are all the same and somehow, you can't stop watching them. The only thing I didn't like was how they so quickly glossed over the memory loss/mental health issue. There was a slight mention of it and then the problem is gone. Tied up in a neat little bow. No actually having to face the scarier issue of mental decline in a loved one. Having helped take care of my aunt with early on-set Alzheimer's, some days, it would have been easier to fight off the whole battalion of bad guys than to have stayed patient while trying to help her dress.
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