Braven

Logging company owner and family man Joe Braven (Jason Momoa) lives with his wife Stephanie (Jill Wagner) and their daughter Charlotte (Sasha Rossof). Braven's father Linden (Stephen Lang), who suffers from brain trauma due to a head injury, gets into a bar room brawl after mistaking a woman for his wife, requiring Joe to come to his aid and resulting in hospitalisation for Linden. At Stephanie's suggestion Joe and Linden decide to spend some time together at the family's secluded mountain cabin, unaware that Charlotte was hiding in the back of the vehicle so she could tag along.

While transporting logs by truck, Joe's co-worker, a driver named Weston (Brendan Fletcher), is asked by Hallett (Zahn McClarnon), a drug trafficker, to recruit other drivers into Hallett's criminal activities, but Weston refuses. During the exchange, Weston loses control of his truck, causing a crash that displaces all the logs and cocaine from the vehicle. After they resolve to go to Joe's mountain cabin to store the cocaine there, Weston and Hallett are picked up by a police patrol car. Hallett relays the news of the crash to his employer, drug lord Kassen (Garret Dillahunt).

After Joe, Linden and Charlotte arrive at the cabin, Joe discovers the cocaine hidden in the shed, so he hides Charlotte in a storage closet before being surrounded by Kassen's mercenaries. When Weston tries to act as a go-between, Kassen kills him. Unable to call for help because of lack of cellular signals at the cabin, Joe, armed with a bow and arrow, and Linden with a gun, kill some of the mercenaries during the ensuing standoff.

Needing higher ground to access a cellular network, Joe drives out of the house on a quad bike with the original cocaine bag, with Charlotte hidden under a blanket. Joe drops off Charlotte and instructs her climb to the mountain, where she calls her mother, who in turn calls the sheriff. Circling back, Joe dispatches more of Kassen's men. Kassen finds the bag, but it is empty. Discovering where Joe sent Charlotte, Kassen sends one of the mercenaries, Ridley, to find her, though when Hallett enters the cabin, he is stabbed twice by Linden, who then retreats, and is later fatally wounded by another mercenary, Essington.

Just before Ridley catches up to Charlotte, a bow-wielding Stephanie arrives and shoots Ridley with an arrow. A hand-to-hand fight ensues, during which she stabs Ridley before fleeing. Meanwhile, Joe returns to the cabin, where he dispatches Clay and kills Essington. Charlotte is picked up by the sheriff as Ridley continues to pursue Stephanie. Kassen takes Linden hostage and, after Joe pleads for his father's life, Kassen fatally stabs Linden. Kassen shoots the sheriff and escapes from the cabin, later retrieving the lost cocaine. Joe chases after him and after a violent knife fight Joe pushes Kassen off a cliff, killing him, before being reunited with Stephanie and Charlotte.

Sala Baker, Glenn Ennis, Fraser Aitcheson, and Todd Scott, who play the stunts, also play as Kassen's mercenaries Gentry, Ridley, Clay, and Luisi. And another stuntman Patrick Kerton, who plays Kris.

September 3, 2015, it was announced that Jason Momoa would star in the action thriller film Braven to be directed by Lin Oeding, based on the story by Mike Nilon and scripted by Thomas Pa'a Sibbett. Momoa would produce the film along with his partner Brian Mendoza through their Pride of Gypsies banner, along with Nilon and Molly Hassell.[3] On December 14, 2015, Garret Dillahunt joined the film to play the villainous role.[4]

Principal photography on the film began early-December 2015 in Newfoundland, Canada.[4]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 77% based on 31 reviews, and an average rating of 5.9/10.[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]

• Braven at IMDb