Best movie of this year hands down!

Best movie ever!

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Continuing my plan to watch every Mel Gibson movie in order I come to Edge Of Darkness (2010)This was the first movie starring Mel Gibson in a leading role in 8 years. And to say a lot had happened in those years is an understatement. He stood by Robert Downey Jr's side during his personal problems and A hate filled rant whilst being pulled for DUI. Apocalypto doing well despite being a tough sell on top of Gibson's scandal was proof audiences will ignore a certain amount of bad behaviour.Plot In A Paragraph: As homicide detective Thomas Craven (Gibson) investigates the murder of his daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.This is a tough one for me to review, as I was a fan of the BBC mini series this is based on. They obviously changed a lot, to fit it into the time constraints of one movie, but it's not bad, it's not great by any means, but it's an above average movie that has a few 'jump' moments in there too. All the supporting cast are fine, and Winstone pops up in possibly my favourite performance from him, but this is Gibson's movie, and for me, in Edge of Darkness, he remains a likable man with a natural screen presence, whose character I didn't have too hard of a time getting behind. Edge Of Darkness grossed $43 million dollars at the Domestic Box Office to end 2010 the 73rd highest grossing movie of the year. So, it wasn't a hit for Gibson.  But it didn't totally bomb either.  If anything, it can probably be viewed as a minor victory, that some (maybe only older action fans) audiences didn't seem to be holding his scandals against him.And the THOSE tapes dropped.

It's hard to say specifically what I liked and maybe didn't like about this movie, It's definitely not a feel-good movie, it harsh, brutal and sad at times. It's a good movie, but I can't help feeling I have seen it before, in other stories, in other films with Gibson, that doesn't make this a bad flick, it just made me look at it all harder and see if it was different and better.All-in-all I liked it, good acting, good story, good characters, Gibson has something about him in these kind of movies and Winstone really had a great bi-character to it all.It's not for the faint at heart, it's properly not for most women, it's for the men and even we will sit back with a feeling of sadness, disgruntle and kind of impotence.

Largely a fairly suspenseful, yet subdued conspiracy thriller, with some 'fun' trips like the delusions of Craven (Gibson) and quite often a fierce injection of action; yes, it was sort of fresh.Nearing the end, the big question arose how Campbell was going to work all this out into a satisfying finale. Well, didn't I just expect it: Craven gets cheated, imprisoned, breaks out with great ease and goes 'Payback' (1999) on all of them asses. The last part of that I expected to be more subtle, but it didn't disappoint anyway. And then, Jedburgh (Winstone) even takes things up a notch; the idea in itself is terrific, but, altogether, this is still not an exceptional film. I had a fun enough, though.A big 6 out of 10. And I'm still (all the more) very curious about the original series (1985) by the same director!

I sat in one Sunday Night and watched this. Here's a film I liked better than I thought I would. Edge Of Darkness is an exciting film, first rate, that marks the return after 8 years of one of Hollywood's most difficult stars. Gibson plays a Homicide detective who's activist daughter (Novajak) is gunned down before his very eyes. He originally thought the bullet was intended for him, but soon, things have him thinking otherwise, as he walks a dark path of investigation, towards discovering who the murderous hand was, and we know what Mel will do when he finds him and these other sons of bitches. The whole film was a great night in, and this film never lets go of it's pace or intensity, One moment, involving a car run down, jumped me, I must say. Winstone as some seedy PI made the film more involving, his demise a shock, when his true self came to light at the end. What was a nice, beautiful, and affecting memory was a flashback scene in the finale with Gibson and daughter strolling a hospital corridor as if she survived. One of those exciting and engrossing films, which Hollywood is in scant supply of and none more a perfect vehicle, that herald Gibson's return to the screen.