Edge of Darkness

United States, United Kingdom

2010

117 Min

Color

English

Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
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EXEC Gail Lyon, Danton Rissner, David M. Thompson, E. Bennett Walsh, Suzanne Warren

PROD Tim Headington, Graham King, Michael Wearing

SCR William Monahan, Andrew Bovell

CAST Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novaković, Shawn Roberts

An emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous, looking glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder – and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven’s solitary search for answers about his daughter’s death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.

Director

Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand TV and film director. Campbell was born in Hastings, New Zealand. He directed two James Bond films, 1995’s GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, and 2006’s Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, and was the first Bond director since John Glen to direct more than one film, as well as the oldest director in the series’ history, at the age of 62 (beating the previous record set by Lewis Gilbert, who directed Moonraker at the age of 59). He also directed the two recent Zorro films, The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

On television Campbell had overseen some of the more action-oriented episodes from the TV series The Professionals (1977–1983), however his best known work is the 1985 BBC Television drama serial Edge of Darkness, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Director in 1986. Campbell has also directed a movie remake of… read more

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Mathias Palmberg

14May12

Boring and uninspired all the way. Shame!

Ben 94

4Apr11

Gibson qui coure partout pis qui pète des gueules, c'est quand même un film pas pire.

Francesca Perry Carboni

15Oct10

Dreadful film which gives Gibson endless opportunities to overact. And yep Ray Winstone walked away with all the honours.

Arisa

9Oct10

Gibson's first leading role in quite some time. I think this movie could've been much more successful if his personal life wasn't such a mess right now, because I think it's definitely the type of film that would appeal to a mainstream audience. And as everyone already said, Ray Winstone's performance was really the best part.