Edge of Darkness
When the only daughter of a Boston homicide detective, Thomas Craven, is shot on his doorstep, everyone assumes that he was the intended target. But when Thomas investigates the case, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups.
3 April 1964
15 August 1967, New York City, New York, USA
1969, USA
19 February 1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
20 March 1985, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 August 1963, Durham, North Carolina, USA
16 October 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
16 April 1953, Austin, Texas, USA
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.
February 02, 2010
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality.
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.
October 29, 2010
The attempt at grittiness comes off soft.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Campbell and his cinematographer, Phil Meheux, create a pervasive sense of dread, with danger lurking around every corner of Boston and its environs.
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.
February 01, 2010
Edge of Darkness is a meathead revenge picture, but it's very satisfying.
