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Edge of Darkness
In this film, the only daughter of the Boston murder investigator, Thomas Craven, was shot. That process tragically took place on his doorstep. Now, everyone assumes that Thomas was the intended target, but when Thomas investigates the case, things turn out completely. Now, Thomas discovers only her secret life, and she uncovers a dangerous world of corporate covers that cause real controversy.
29 May 1958, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
April1974, Jerusalem, Israel
16 October 1971, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
14 August 1963, Durham, North Carolina, USA
August 01, 2010
Martin Campbell returns to the once edgy and jagged ground of his excellent BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness with a much slicker spin that sheds much of what made the first go around so good.
January 29, 2010
Edge of Darkness is reasonably well executed, but its competence reeks of fatigue. Another dead kid. Another angry dad. Another day at the office.
February 01, 2010
Edge of Darkness is a meathead revenge picture, but it's very satisfying.
October 21, 2010
Monahan mistakes rambling exposition for captivating back-and-forth and Campbell doesn't help any by making the film as drab and turgidly paced as possible.
March 21, 2011
Adapted from the landmark BBC mini-series by original director Martin Campbell, Edge of Darkness is a polished piece of political suspense masquerading as a crime drama and pulling off both rather successfully.
April 04, 2011
Films like this are musicals for people who enjoy gunfire and Mel Gibson being shouty. They're that satisfyingly heightened version of reality no one actually gets to experience.
February 02, 2010
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality.
October 29, 2010
The attempt at grittiness comes off soft.
February 01, 2010
I liked the pace and the pulse of the film, but it launches no genuine surprise and, despite being irradiated with scenes of sickness and morbid one-liners, has little afterglow.
January 29, 2010
Campbell and his cinematographer, Phil Meheux, create a pervasive sense of dread, with danger lurking around every corner of Boston and its environs.
July 06, 2010
Gibson, of course, snaps and snarls and blows out some brains with a joylessness that is thoroughly enjoyable. It's like he never left.
March 30, 2012
A thoughtful and harrowing drama about the lengths people will go to survive - and the changes of heart that one person undergoes to help them.