Edge of Darkness

Oh, Mel Gibson how you make me laugh and cry. Usually at the same time too, funny enough. Just recently I read you went on another racially charged rant using the N word. Good to see you branching out in your anti-semitic outbursts I guess. For awhile their I thought you were gonna keep it strictly to the chosen ones. Well, now that I've indulged myself in your ever expanding reign as who can piss off Hollywood the most career, I think its time for me to give my best shot at an objective review of your latest offering, Edge of Darkness.
Let's just get this over with and thank Martin Campbell of Golden Eye and Casino Royale fame for always managing to craft a competent and intelligent thriller with material that is sometimes less than stellar. Here is another standard typical conspiracy story that manages to engage the viewer just enough to keep you watching. It's the dark tone set by Campbell that really gets under your skin even when the picture starts to get a little silly.
Gibson as an actor has always been watchable and here is no exception. As a grieving father whose daughter has just been mysteriously murdered he does a more than adequate job of exacting revenge against those who so badly deserve it. Im just waiting for when his acting choices get as exciting as his personal life. Stay out of trouble Mel. As an actor your more than competent and as a director your a force to be wreckened with.

C+

2010