Cats (2019)
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A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer...
Black Widow (2021)
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On the run from the authorities after the events of Civil War, Natasha Romanoff must come to terms...
Point Break (2015)
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Thrill-seeking criminals perform a series of daredevil stunts to steal money and gems, only to give...
Cold Mountain (2003)
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.In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a...
Edge of Darkness (2010)
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Big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed BBC drama serial. Detective Tom Craven (Gibson) is appalled...
conspiracy revenge
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Fool's Gold (2008)
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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson go for the gold (and the diamonds emeralds and rubies) as a...
The Mr Porter Paperback: The Manual for a Stylish Life - Volume One, Two and Three
Jeremy Langmead and John Brodie
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This boxset of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of The Mr Porter Paperback is the ultimate compendium of life and...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Edge of Darkness (2010) in Movies
May 5, 2020 (Updated May 6, 2020)
As well as two-thirds of the running time and most of the plot, the movie version of Edge of Darkness also cheerfully dispenses with virtually everything that made the TV show so memorable: theoretically a fiendishly convoluted thriller, it also contained an environmentalist subtext, an incest subtext, a subtext about Anglo-US relations, even some borderline SF & fantasy elements. All of this is gone and just replaced with Mel Gibson looking intense and beating people up. As a result it is very hard to care about what's happening, although the illogicality of much of it does manage to cut through (someone poisoning someone else and then deciding to shoot them as well is practically a motif). Ray Winstone is not bad as Jedburgh, but given the source material the rest of it is unforgivably lousy.