After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
I would call the movie a trainwreck, except it's really four or five separate trainwrecks.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
7 May 2015
rotten:
There is nothing brave about "Bravetown," a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven.
– Barbara VanDenburgh,
Arizona Republic,
7 May 2015
rotten:
First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true.
– Sheri Linden,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2015
rotten:
Excruciating ... an unwieldy hybrid of high school dance competition movie and shameless flag-waver.