Edge of Darkness

Dudess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRdGKxsmD8
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226273/

Talk of nuclear related stuff re The Road prompted me to start this thread. It will be interesting to see this take on the absolutely excellent BBC series from the 80s: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090424/

So the story is relocated from Britain to the States (I'm not a Gibson fan personally but still really looking forward to it - hope it won't be a Payback II) and Ray Winston takes on the role originally played by American actor Joe Don Baker.

IvySlayer

Afraid to say I've never seen the show, Im young

Not a major fan of Gibson, although Signs was a good film. From the trailer, it looks interesting. This directpr did Casino Royale so hopefully it'll be good.

Dudess

I didn't see the TV show first time 'round either - invest in the DVD if you can.

mike65

It'll be some ridiculous man against the men paranoid melodrama with a big bang bang ending

Apolloyon

The original BBC miniseries was absolutely fantastic! The trailer of the new version looks more like your generic action movie and I'm not encouraged by that. But no doubt I'll go and see it anyway!

qwertplaywert

Martin Campbell?Mel Gibson?R Rated? Prepare for awesome!

Chad ghostal

Was looking forward to this, not so much for Gibson, but really like Martin Campbell and was looking forward to seeing him do something more serious (haven't seen the original series, but have seen the

daughter dildo kissing clip o_0

- I'm assuming that's not going to be in the remake)

But then I read that they're re-shooting it to make it more action orientated and now I'm afraid it's going to be like this:

mike65 wrote: »

It'll be some ridiculous man against the men paranoid melodrama with a big bang bang ending

Dudess

All of my fears very well articulated - didn't want to say anything like that though for fear of looking like I've made up my mind before seeing it, but yeah, it really does have a ring of Payback/Ransom to it... and yep, I wondered how they'd handle that bit you mentioned, Chad ghostal.
Makes sense it would be omitted - not something old Mel would approve of with his christian morals and whatnot. :pac:

BopNiblets

Hopefully this will be Mels Gran Torino, and what's wrong with Payback II?
Payback was cool and fun!

Dudess

Its style is not really suited to the message Edge of Darkness is trying to convey though...

S.L.F

I was one of the lucky ones to have seen the series back in the 1980's and I've owned the DVDs since they came out, I'd be terrified that they would make this masterful piece of tv history into an action film which to me would be sacrilege.

I've not seen it yet but will be going.

Mel Gibson is always at his best when he's lost something, be it his mind, wife, dignity, etc. Loss seems to bring out the best in him and I can firmly say that I thoroughly enjoyed the film. It's not a patch on the original but condensing over 6 hours down so much is bound to affect the story.

pickarooney

I must watch the series. Have had it sitting here for a couple of months.

Klingon Hamlet

Martin Campbell directed the original didn't he?

senordingdong

Reads like a good episode of The Sweeney.

In America, but.

Got to see this tonight and I wasn't impressed.

The movie was good for the most part, certainly wasn't the 'Taken' clone that I was expecting it to be.
I did find however, that the conspiracy was a little over the top and that the plot was a little convoluted and wonder if Ray Winstones character was supposed to be making a tongue in cheek remark about this at the end.
The plot felt like the movie might have gone through a few re-writes and suffered as a result.

senordingdong

Oh, and meant to say, Winstones character really saved this film for me.

Panda

Agree about Winstones character, but the rest of the film was predictable,
boring and because it was originally a mini series that was 6 hours long it suffered badly from the re-write.

Bottom line, i wouldnt recommend it.

DrumSteve

i thought it was pretty good but it was overly violent for the sake of it.

higo

i taught it was poor .. another pay day for gibson winstone stole the show . and the boston accent was dreadfull. 5/10
man on fire was the best revenge film ever ..imo.

evolutionqy7

trailer looked good...went to see it and it was absolute bore...start was ok but the rest was just so boring and slow!!!

kraggy

One of the worst films I've seen in a long time.

Pathetic, over-acting by Gibson and a crap screenplay. It got 55% on RT. Should be at around 5%.

IvySlayer

Saw this with the girl last night

I know I'll get slated for this, but I enjoyed it. OK it wasn't Oscar winning stuff but it was watchable.

Mel Gisbon was very one-dimensional but tbh what do you expect. I liked Ray Winstone in it.

The action scenes and any shootings were not ott.

Where the daughter gets shot or when he's taking on the broadmoor guys

I'd go deeper only no-one else liked it

TheDoc

Well enjoyed it and thought it was a nice watch.

I also enjoy watching something like this after been dragged to most of the epic ****e that does be on the cinema lately