Man on a Ledge (2012)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 102
Uninspired acting and preposterous plotlines defuse Man on a Ledge's mildly intriguing premise.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 30
Uninspired acting and preposterous plotlines defuse Man on a Ledge's mildly intriguing premise.
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Movie Info
An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiator (Elizabeth Banks)tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective. -- (C) Summit Entertainment
Cast
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Sam Worthington
Nick Cassidy -
Elizabeth Banks
Lydia Mercer -
Jamie Bell
Joey Cassidy -
Anthony Mackie
Mike Ackerman -
Edward Burns
Jack Dougherty -
Ed Harris
David Englander -
Titus Welliver
Dante Marcus, Nathan... -
Genesis Rodriguez
Angie -
Kyra Sedgwick
Suzie Morales -
Mandy Gonzalez
Manager -
Bill Sadler
Valet -
Barbara Marineau
Screaming Woman -
J. Smith-Cameron
Psychiatrist -
Patrick Collins
Father Leo -
Afton Williamson
Janice Ackerman -
Robert Clohessy
Prison Guard -
Joe Lisi
Desk Sergeant -
Candice McKoy
Cop - Bullhorn -
John Solo
Cop - Room -
James Yaegashi
Police Technician -
Daniel Sauli
Police Technician -
Frank Pando
Cameraman -
Jason Kolotouros
ESU -
Michael Laurence
Bearded Guy -
Don Castro
CSI Tech -
Pooja Kumar
Englander's Assistan... -
John Dossett
Ted Henry -
Sylvia Kauders
Angry Traffic Woman -
Felix Solis
Nestor -
Jabari Gray
Brooklyn Cop -
James Andrew O'Conne...
Brooklyn Cop -
Ann Arvia
Investor -
Jonathan Walker
Investor -
Liz Holtan
Lady -
Jason Furlani
Cop -
Terry Serpico
Lutz -
Erin Quill
Cop - File -
Arthur J. Nascarella
Construction Worker -
Jimmy Palumbo
Detective -
J. Bernard Calloway
Detective -
Gerry Vichi
Older Orthodox Man -
Geoffrey Cantor
Gordon Evans -
Brett Smith
Tactical Leader -
John Comer
Correction Officer
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All Critics (152) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (102) | DVD (2)
This embraces its own lunacy readily enough, never aiming for anything more than the disposable thrills it delivers thick and fast.
Top CriticThe solution to "now what do we do for 103 minutes?" is to pile as many silly distractions into the running time as possible.
'Man on a Ledge' is our first legit contender for Best Worst movie of the year.
This is one of the few movies that, with its skyscraper action scenes, probably needed to be made in 3-D. As it is, though, it's barely in 2-D - and really, I'm not sure it needed to be made at all.
There's no escaping the sheer terror of a guy standing on a ledge that high up. "Man on a Ledge" delivers the sweats it intends to deliver.
When an action movie is as clumsy as "Man on a Ledge," it's begging to fall.
After an interesting guessing game in the first forty minutes, it slips and falls to a terrible and clichéd death.
This drama defies reason, logic and explanation but it can't defy gravity and ultimately falls flatly on its face.
"Man on a Ledge" is not a film that will change the way we look at thrillers, but it is a film that has enough thrills to provide for a very entertaining ride
Sam Worthington's Man On A Ledge is an absolute mess of a film, from start to finish. It's silly, dumb and ridiculous.
The fact that it works is nothing short of a miracle. ... The balance between genuine threat and B-Movie silliness is just about right.
Certainly enjoyable and occasionally tense despite some wobbly performances and plot holes.
...depending on your levels of credulity - and blood alcohol - it might just pass muster as a late-night six-pack flick.
It's pulp, airport fiction - the acting is mediocre, the characters are formulaic archetypes... but I didn't feel as if my time was wasted at all.
Man on a Ledge isn't a caper comedy. It's a heist picture, a thriller -- and a not-that-thrilling one at that. But the folks who made it have enough of a sense of humor to get how silly it is and run with that on occasion.
Man on a Ledge flirts with B-movie greatness but comes up short thanks to the far-fetched plot device used to power a clunky hybrid of heist flick/Hitchcockian wrong-man thriller.
... The ledge is the movie's most dynamic performer.
Here, Leth makes Worthington's ledge a constantly frightening gimmick and the pacing between scenes is so effective, you'd be on the edge of your seat if the film didn't constantly make you feel for the back of your chair.
a straight-up genre film with no ambition beyond keeping the audience minimally entertained with its workmanlike execution of a literally high-concept idea
Given that it stars action drone Sam Worthington, you'll be wishing they called it 'Man off a Ledge' before long.
Yep, there's a man on a ledge in it.
It's absolutely average. That's not exactly what you are looking for when your subject is about a man on a ledge.
From minute to minute it's ingenious, gripping stuff...
There's something endearingly deranged about Ed Harris's performance as a conniving businessman ( ... ) perhaps he realised that the film wasn't going to be as good as we hoped and that he might as well pretend he was related to John Malkovich.
[T]here is the problem of the man on the ledge being Sam Worthington... For the Great Mystery of Sam Worthington remains unsolved...: How is it that this guy is a movie star? He's got no screen presence, no charisma...
There's a professional slickness about the proceedings and it entertains for most of the time.
Audience Reviews for Man on a Ledge
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Super Reviewer
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- Mike Ackerman: Women jump for love. Men... we jump for money!
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- Lydia Mercer: I suppose that's a family heirloom?
- Joey Cassidy: It is now.
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- Angie: You don't want to know everything. Nobody does.
- Joey Cassidy: Sure I do.
- Angie: Boyfriends? Girlfriends? Best sex of my life?
- Joey Cassidy: Well, obviously.
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- Angry Traffic Woman: Anyone who creates traffic like this should be shot!
- Suzie Morales: I couldn't agree more, ma'am.
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- Lydia Mercer: Watch him.
- Jack Dougherty: You're getting a little too comfortable barking orders.
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- Joey Cassidy: Is she hot?
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Foreign Titles
- Ein riskanter Plan (DE)
- Dos au mur (FR)
