Mel Gibson with Martin Campbell returns from a long drought of staring in a picture with the revenge thriller Edge of Darkness which allows Gibson to do some nice work but falls flat pretty much everywhere else.
Gibson plays Craven, a Boston police detective, whose daughter almost instantly upon her return home for a visit is almost instantly killed by in an assumed botched attempt on Craven’s life. Craven quickly dives into the case and tries to find out what really happened as he feels he has no enemies and begins to uncover his daughter’s past which is under vary high surveillance. Realizing Craven is getting close, and unknown associate enlists a mysterious “fixer” to put a handle on the quickly brewing situation. This “fixer”, Jedburgh points Craven in the direction of his daughters boss Bennett as he thinks he might be to blame for the events that are unfolding.
From here the film takes on a rather convoluted and contrived path that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and really feels like a bit of a hodgepodge of scenes. It almost feels like the filmmakers were just taking ideas for scenes and running them back to back with little to no reason or connection [Read more...]