When the only daughter of a Boston homicide detective, Thomas Craven, is shot on his doorstep, everyone assumes that he was the intended target. But when Thomas investigates the case, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups.
5 December 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
12 December 1978, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
14 May 1992, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April1974, Jerusalem, Israel
16 April 1953, Austin, Texas, USA
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
17 November 1981, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
1969, USA
2 December 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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 01, 2010
Edge of Darkness is a meathead revenge picture, but it's very satisfying.
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.
October 29, 2010
The attempt at grittiness comes off soft.
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 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.
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.
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.
February 02, 2010
Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality.
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.
