Edge of Darkness (Blu-ray) (2010)

"...musings on family and grief and Gibson's intense, but subtle, performance stay with us longest.  Claudia Puig, USA Today
"An intense Mel Gibson performance anchors this brutally effective crime thriller.  Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter

Editor's Note CASINO ROYALE filmmaker Martin Campbell directs a remake of his own BBC miniseries with this thriller. Mel Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a man who has spent years as a detective in Boston. When his own daughter is killed near the door of his home, Craven realizes that her death is only one piece of a puzzle filled with corruption and conspiracy, and it falls to him to discover who is behind the crime. Written by Oscar-winner William Monahan (THE DEPARTED) and screenwriter Andrew Bovell (LANTANA), EDGE OF DARKNESS also stars Ray Winstone and Danny Huston.

	Mel Gibson
	Ray Winstone
	Danny Huston
	Bojana Novakovic
	Shawn Roberts
	William Monahan - Screenwriter
	Graham King - Producer
	Michael Wearing - Producer
	Andrew Bovell - Screenwriter
	Troy Kennedy Martin - Source Writer
	Martin Campbell - Director

Chicago Sun-Times
"Winstone's interaction with Gibson provides the movie with much of its interest....Gibson is a credible, attractive hero, as he has always been..." 01/27/2010

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "Mel Gibson shines in this kind of role, and he's at his very best in this politically charged thriller..." 01/27/2010

Los Angeles Times
"EDGE OF DARKNESS hangs in there and fleshes out its '70s-style symphony of paranoia....The best of the violence carries a brutal jolt." 01/29/2010

USA Today
3 stars out of 4 -- "Mel Gibson is back to doing what he does best....This tense tale of a father's love for his daughter and his blinding sense of revenge artfully blends emotion and suspense." 01/29/2010

Hollywood Reporter
"Mel Gibson returns to form in EDGE OF DARKNESS....Also sturdy are the supporting players, particularly Ray Winstone as a quietly threatening government op..." 01/24/2010

Entertainment Weekly
"Gibson speaks in a dry Boston accent and really gets the gruff, blunt working-class Boston Irish 'tude behind those inflections." -- Grade: B 01/29/2010

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Nobody goes postal quite like Mel, giving a white heat to his personal mission that keeps us watching." 01/28/2010

Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "Gibson brings the pain -- either with a pistol or his eyes, which carry the same wounded, vulnerable quality they always have, here fully exploited." 01/22/2010

Rolling Stone
"Mel Gibson's return to acting is a welcome sight....[He] shows his movie-star shine hasn't dimmed." 02/18/2010

Premiere
3 stars out of 4 -- "A slow-burning conspiracy with an incredible performance by Gibson." 05/10/2010

Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "A sturdy big-screen remake....Ray Winstone steals the show as an enigmatic 'fixer' who may or may not be one of the good guys." 07/01/2010

San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
In the six years since his last big-screen role, Mel Gibson has taken on the look of an aging parent. He plays a Boston police detective with a grown-up daughter, and seeing him with her - that is, seeing Gibson playing opposite the young actress who plays his daughter - is like seeing an older guy who accepts that his life energy is ebbing and who takes comfort that his vitality lives undiminished in his child...Gibson has only one scene with the daughter (Bojana Novakovic) in Edge of Darkness, and he plays it with the gentle self-consciousness of someone not old but getting old, who senses that the power balance between parent and offspring has imperceptibly shifted in favor of the younger generation. This is touching to see, and so when the daughter is killed - this happens within five minutes of the opening credits - it lands with an awful impact. Director Martin Campbell films Gibson staring into space in the aftermath looking small and weakened, as if he's not only lost his reason for living but also half his physical strength...Against Gibson's aura of uncomplicated decency his co-stars' villainy gets to stand out in sharp relief. As a nuclear executive, Danny Huston seems mentally convoluted and baroque, and Dennis O'Hare's government bureaucrat is like some fretting fiend, unwilling to slow down for one second to consider obscure matters such as truth or common decency. Damian Young plays a Massachusetts senator as the worst kind of stuffed shirt: corrupt, complacent and oozing politeness...These villains are specific, of course, but they're also archetypes for the things people fear - unseen powers running our lives, running our world, threatening to take what's most precious from us. I don't see Edge of Darkness as a great movie, or a particularly exalted one, but I do see it as one made by people who know where the buttons are - and who know how to press them. Hard. - Mick LaSalle