The movie starts out really tight, but it lost me as a story unfolds. I could find all the cliche of B movies but this is not a flat out B action movie. This is a movie that doesn't know what it is! Sometimes it tries to be somewhat serious, using a conspiracy theory plot and sometimes it's trying to be a flat out action movie. And it doesn't catch two birds with one stone. At the end, it is not serious and it is not fun either.

Decent ass-kicker noir.

Mel Gibson...love this man so much.

Good film.

Mel's old, tired and/or indifferent. I don't blame him because that's how I felt about the plot.

Gibson does a decent job but it simply feels incomplete when compared with the original mini-series. Admittedly I probably set my expectations too high, as I was hoping for a movie to rival Liam Neeson in Taken, but regardless it isn't landmark cinema. Thankfully Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone really do add to the film preventing it from being mediocre.

Edge of Darkness is not "Taken." On the surface it appears to be playing that card, but in reality, audiences are given a slow-moving procedural detective thriller with revenge elements. By all means this isn't a film without its faults, from its lacking relationship dynamics and questionable plot, but the film is skillfully directed as a hard-boiled R-rated conspiracy film with a terrific return from Mel Gibson who hasn't lost his form after a 7-year absence. This is a solid, violent thriller.

Mel is mad... again. His return is as unrelentingly unoriginal as the trailer will lead you to believe.

Solid, with a couple of really excellent moments, but this will hardly linger in the memory. Gibson & Winstone do well, but the support cast are pretty average, & at times this film is just too slow. The plot though interesting in concept, is too precticable, feeling thin & stretched, especially during the slower parts of this movie, when the plot needed be fleshed out to supliment the good action sequences. The last 20 minutes in particular are a mess, & the final scene just horrible.

Wonderful. I don't know if certain things left out (we didn't see anything where we might have) helped or hurt the film. Riggs shot the fuck out of everyone. The heroic sacrifice at the end was amazing.

A rather disappointing film. Very well done, great movie making, but with a plot that you must have seen before. The two leads were interesting characters, and well portrayed by Gibson and Winstone, but didn't have much of a plot to work with. The best scenes in this film weren't the thriller bits, and there weren't any great action sequences, but the dialogue between Craven and Jedburgh.

Gibson, in his first starring role in eight years, comes back strong, and gracefully aged. The detective work is solid and followable, and it offers a fair share of ah-ha moments. If the investigation depends overmuch on bullish Dirty Harry tactics to move it along, it at least pulls up short of the overscaled action -- the outrageous chases, the explosions, the Hong Kong combat -- that has so numbed the contemporary action film.

Most of the time it was boring, except some seperate scene's which attract your attention (shooting & killing). But most of the time it doesn't offer much special. One thing I really liked was the performance of Ray Winstone.

Nothing you haven't seen before but it is no rip off of "Taken" either. Much less focused on the action side of things which did lead to some rather slow moments. Mel Gibson's sheer presence performance helped throughout along with some impressive exchanges of dialogue with Ray Winstone. Solid thriller that is at least worth a look.

Has some thriller charm to it and a few really cool moments. Worth Netflixing at least if you're a big thriller junkie like I am. I got really sick of Gibson's flashbacks / hallucinations of his daughter though, and you'll effortlessly figure the mystery out half an hour in if you've ever seen a conspiracy thriller before.

Good to have you back Gibson, even if you were just about the only thing keeping me awake during this movie.

The trailer has more action then the movie, and I'm not joking. You might get bored expecting the opposite. Other then that, its a quite ok movie with really good acting, specially Gibson. A bit slow, but still ok.

Thought this movie wasn't that bad, but they misled me and it was (at times) excruciatingly slow. I had a terrible theater experience though. This fat bitch sitting behind me was the loudest popcorn eater in existence. Not only that, but she had to refill the bag 3 times during the course of the movie. Can you not go 2 hours without stuffing your face? And then sitting down and complaining and breathing loud so everyone can hear you. Sometimes murder should be okay, like in this movie.

A completely serviceable and entertaining thriller. None of it is truly spectacular, but it's nice to have Mel flexing his acting muscle once more, and although he doesn't do an incredible job here, he's as entertaining and engaging as always. The violence is typically surprising without being gratuitous and the film has a decent sense of pacing. It won't blow you away, but it's a good two hours of entertainment and it does what it set out to do.

Riiiiiiiiiggs!

Mel Gibson comes back to the big screen with an exciting performance as a bereaved father determined to solve the puzzling death of his only daughter. The film itself doesn't move from scene to scene very seamlessly. Still, Gibson compels you past this with an intense realism that only he can deliver. This movie contains enough thrills to keep you in suspense throughout. An satisfying and enjoyable experience.

A slow paced thriller, never thought I would be putting those words in the same sentence, but that is exactly what this film is, it settles down mid way to explain the not so shocking shocking secret. A thriller we have all seen before that tries to outsmart us on a topic that has been the focal point of a film for the last 3 or 4 years. Someone knows too much about our business, next thing they are dead, parent investigates, question answered. No different from any other film I have seen.

Revenge drama provides good performances and some shocks, along with cringe worthy dramatic bits, and a plot that gets too convoluted for it's own good.

This was a very slow film in my opinion. It took too long to develop some plotlines and we had to wait way too long for some action or developments. I was glad to see Gibson back on the big screen, but this new film he was in, was boring.

It seems that everyone hoped Edge of Darkness was an action film in the style of Taken as a father seeks retribution for his daughters death but the limited action doesn't even compare. The intrigue in this film is based on the dialogue between the main characters, the complete lack of morals shown by corporations and the cover-ups which occur at government level. An interesting watch but dont expect all action !!

This movie was pretty cool. Milk is the best weapon. Shitty ending, though.

Worth seeing if you're feeling like watching an average thriller. Most of the characters are compelling, the pace is brisk, and there is clearly a lot of heart in the story. However, parts of the story either don't make sense or don't follow logic. Perhaps there is a reason to this. Either way, it took me out of it--that defeats the purpose. The film would be best enjoyed if you don't expect director Martin Campbell to be doing his best work (Goldeneye and Casino Royale for example).

Wonky moments can mostly be forgiven in this flick which does end up eliciting an emotional response. The wonkiness included, most prominently but certainly not limited to, Gibson's capture by, and subsequent (rushed) escape from Northmoor headquarters. This was vintage Gibson through and through, and I enjoyed the corporate corruption subtext. Solid performances throughout; Winstone was particularly great. May suffer from poor pacing, but intent here is more intelligence, less explosiveness.

BORED

If you turn off your brains, this is actually quite fun to watch.

A good action film with a mostly tight script (the attempted assassination by vehicle was weak). The taught scenes with Gibson and Winstone are excellent, and the running gag about Massachusetts, particularly given recent events there, really hit home. Like many conspiracy theory movies of late, the bad guys come from corporate government collusion. There's also a Republican US Senator. In Massachusetts? Are they nuts? When Hell freezes over!!!