Academy Award winner Mel Gibson ("Braveheart") makes his return to the big screen in the highly anticipated thriller, "Edge of Darkness".
Mel Gibson returns, though in a way, he never really left. Gibson, last seen on screen in 'The Singing Detective' (2003) has spent the better half of a decade as producer / director on epic, controversial classics 'Apocalytpo' (2006) and 'The Passion Of The Christ' (2004). 'Edge Of Darkness', adapted and updated from the 1985 miniseries, is a sombre but often stunning political drama with great performances all round. Mel Gibson goes into the well once more as a grieving father / committed policeman determined to find those who murdered his daughter: a corporate whistleblower working for a shadowy government agency allegedly producing nuclear WMD.
Similar in tone to 'Ransom', 'Payback' and 'The Constant Gardener', 'Edge Of Darkness' tends to rely upon certain narrative conventions but goes beyond the limitations of a standard police procedural by allowing us to spend time with the characters. Our protagonist subtly subverts the genre through personified memories, flashbacks and even converses with his late daughter in a brief but remarkable use of time-lapse voiceover. Assassinations, take-downs and executions are captured by director Martin Campbell ('Goldeneye') in short, effectively brutal, bursts of calculated violence; there's little in the way of pulse pounding action but an overarching conflict between industrialized detachment and individual concern. It is, in many ways, man against machine; another chapter in the long war between people and greed driven banality. Ray Winstone co-stars as a disillusioned hit man in a somewhat undemanding role that appears to be going nowhere until a hinted at, but nonetheless unexpected, crowd-pleasing twist.
In a world saturated with comic book movies, TV show adaptations and films based on toy lines, it's refreshing to see an honest-to-goodness, no-frills conspiracy drama that gets down to brass tacks and delivers the goods. 'Edge Of Darkness' takes no prisoners but definitely deserves to capture an audience.
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CASINO ROYALE'S Martin Campbell returns to familiar territory with this adaptation of his own 1985 BBC miniseries -- a mystery starring Mel Gibson as a detective looking into his political-activist daughter's death and uncovering layers of governmental conspiracies in the process. William Monahan (THE DEPARTED) provides the screenplay for the GK Films production, co-starring Ray Winstone and Danny Huston.
Political thriller based on the award-winning 1980s BBC series. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma (Bojana Vovakovic) is murdered on the steps of his home, it is generally assumed that he was the target. But Craven has reasons to suspect otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter's secret life as a political activist, which takes him into the dark and dangerous territory of government collusion and corporate cover-ups. Ray Winstone and Danny Huston co-star.
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