Edge of Darkness (2010)
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Critic Consensus: For better and for worse, Edge of Darkness offers vintage Mel Gibson, working within the familiar framework of a bloody revenge thriller.
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Cast
as Thomas Craven
as Darius Jedburgh
as Jack Bennett
as Emma Craven
as Sanderman
as Burnham
as Millroy
as Whitehouse
as Moore
as Senator Jim Pine
as Melissa
as Agent One
as Chief of Police
as Detective Darcy Jones
as Young Emma
as Northampton Police Detective
as Detective Vicki Hurd
as Annie - Bennett's Assistant
as Interviewer
as Agent Two
as Paul Honeywell
as Doctor
as Reporter #1
as Tina
as Janet
as Northmoor Doctor
as State Trooper #1
as Hospital Nurse
as Northampton Doctor
as Robinson Jr.
as Watch Sergeant
as Neighbor
as News Anchor #1
as News Anchor #2
as News Reporter #2
as Automatic Weapons Cop
as State Trooper #2
as Security Officer Northmoor
as Boston Police Detective
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Critic Reviews for Edge of Darkness
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Gibson, of course, snaps and snarls and blows out some brains with a joylessness that is thoroughly enjoyable. It's like he never left.
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality.
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.
Edge of Darkness is a meathead revenge picture, but it's very satisfying.
Campbell and his cinematographer, Phil Meheux, create a pervasive sense of dread, with danger lurking around every corner of Boston and its environs.
Edge of Darkness is reasonably well executed, but its competence reeks of fatigue. Another dead kid. Another angry dad. Another day at the office.
Audience Reviews for Edge of Darkness
I've seen this film before, when it was titled something else just as unmemorable. Gibson played the same character in that movie too. Why waste the time on this one?
Super Reviewer
Mel Gibson's return as angry dad avenging his daughter's death works for the longest time, also thanks to a really interesting minor character. The bursts of violence are really sudden and gut wrenching, only Gibson's humorous face sometimes doesn't seem to fit in. While the solution still works, the epilogue is somewhat silly. Still, over decent enough revenge thriller.
Super Reviewer
Decent enough thriller, is a remake from what I understand, so would genuinely like to see the original.
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Edge of Darkness Quotes
| Craven: | Welcome to hell. |
| Craven: | Everything's illegal in Massachusetts. |
| Craven: | Well you had better decide whether you're hanging on the cross or banging in the nails. |
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