Mel Gibson rolls into this film out of his semi-retirement from acting and does what he's always been good at on, and off, the screen: get angry. Playing detective Craven, Gibson goes rogue, seeking to find his daughter's killer and avenge her death, running into corporate and political obstacles along the way. Edge, as it's called by those that worked on the film, already has me anxious for the DVD, so that I can rewind and watch over and over again certain parts. With astounding special effects, this film lent itself to a brutal, hyper-realistic rampage, the concluding bloodbath sealing the deal on one of the killing-est films this year. The plot was relatively implausible, and by the end, it seemed that its only purpose was to fuel the anger and let Mel kill more people. The filmmaking was tightly packaged, and it's always great to see Boston on the big screen, but the quick-paced, hard-to-relate-to storyline kept this film from being a great film. As an up and coming participant in the film industry, I would have loved for this to be the first absolutely fantastic film that I worked on, but it just wasn't quite there.
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2/17/2010
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