Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
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In this hit thriller, a prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife. When an unknown assailant gruesomely slays San Francisco newspaper heiress Paige Forrester (Maria Mayenzet), her husband and business partner, Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges), turns to corporate attorney Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) for counsel. Teddy, who quit her job with the district attorney's office four years
Oct 4, 1985 Wide
May 2, 2000
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (4) | DVD (11)
A well-crafted, hardboiled mystery.
The wholesome cast completely obliterates the unstated perversities that have been this genre's reason for being.
The screenplay, by Joe Eszterhas, does what it can to throw up a smokescreen, but the audience will probably be well ahead of the story's final resolution.
Supremely effective.
Like many entries into the genre, Jagged Edge works best when it's watched with a minimum of analysis.
Slick and manipulative, Jagged Edge is nonetheless a vastly enjoyable psychological thriller due to the expert turns from Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, and Robert Loggia, who won a Supporting Actor Oscar nod for his role.
Expertly conceived and executed.
No cutting edge, but does keep you guessing.
These days it is almost unheard of for a movie to keep you guessing until the last frame, but this one does, partly because Marquand plays it so beautifully straight.
An exciting "whodunit" that fits in with the sensational crimes reported in the tabloids.
Slick, unsatisfying silliness
So-so thriller that's finally pretty unintentionally funny.
Taut legal thriller that really does keep the audience guessing.
Your average thriller. Is he bad or is he good? Fine for a diversion.
A great, tense and violent thriller as a laywer defends a man accused of killing his wife.....and starts to fall for him herself.
June 15, 2007Super Reviewer
The whole selling point of this film at the time was it's "shock" ending. Which is so unbelievably predictable, a 2 year old could guess it. A waste of time.
April 1, 2007
Super Reviewer
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