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Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness takes us very close to the edge of dumbness in the first five minutes when Emma Craven (Bojana Novakovic) gets ripped open by a sawed off shotgun even though her assassin is aware that she’s been terminally poisoned. Her murder cuts short an already too infrequent visit to her father’s home in Boston. He is Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson), a Bean town cop – untouched by any double barrelled scattershot - who is assumed to be the target of the killer. However thanks to his eventual good police work we find out that Emma is not the innocent four year old he often revisits via videotape. She has managed to get in the crosshairs of a private nuclear company with heavy classified government contracts that is less than a good corporate citizen. As Thomas gets closer to the truth a mercenary plumber named Jedburgh (Ray Winstone) is contracted to tie up loose ends. Thankfully for Thomas (being one of those loose ends) Jedburgh is at a stage in his career where he’s developing a conscience. Interesting trivia: the corporate heavy Jack Bennett is played by Danny Huston the son of Walter Houston who in 1943 starred in a movie called – Edge of Darkness!. Coincidence? Well yes but it’s no coincidence that this pot boiler is boiled down from a British 1985 six part TV mini series as it was very well received. This version, not so much yet despite the initial departures in logic Gibson delivers a good performance of an over-the-hill, nothing-to-lose father going ballistic in some cool action sequences.

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