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Edge of Darkness
In this film, the only daughter of the Boston murder investigator, Thomas Craven, was shot. That process tragically took place on his doorstep. Now, everyone assumes that Thomas was the intended target, but when Thomas investigates the case, things turn out completely. Now, Thomas discovers only her secret life, and she uncovers a dangerous world of corporate covers that cause real controversy.
29 May 1958, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
8 June 1965, New York City, New York, USA
16 April 1953, Austin, Texas, USA
1979, New Zealand
16 October 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14 May 1992, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17 November 1981, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
17 January 1962, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
March 21, 2011
Adapted from the landmark BBC mini-series by original director Martin Campbell, Edge of Darkness is a polished piece of political suspense masquerading as a crime drama and pulling off both rather successfully.
August 01, 2010
Martin Campbell returns to the once edgy and jagged ground of his excellent BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness with a much slicker spin that sheds much of what made the first go around so good.
October 21, 2010
Monahan mistakes rambling exposition for captivating back-and-forth and Campbell doesn't help any by making the film as drab and turgidly paced as possible.
March 30, 2012
A thoughtful and harrowing drama about the lengths people will go to survive - and the changes of heart that one person undergoes to help them.
October 29, 2010
The attempt at grittiness comes off soft.
February 01, 2010
Edge of Darkness is a meathead revenge picture, but it's very satisfying.
April 04, 2011
Films like this are musicals for people who enjoy gunfire and Mel Gibson being shouty. They're that satisfyingly heightened version of reality no one actually gets to experience.
July 06, 2010
Gibson, of course, snaps and snarls and blows out some brains with a joylessness that is thoroughly enjoyable. It's like he never left.
January 29, 2010
Campbell and his cinematographer, Phil Meheux, create a pervasive sense of dread, with danger lurking around every corner of Boston and its environs.
January 29, 2010
Edge of Darkness is reasonably well executed, but its competence reeks of fatigue. Another dead kid. Another angry dad. Another day at the office.
February 01, 2010
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.
February 02, 2010
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality.
