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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Night Moves (2014) in Movies

Sep 7, 2019

Not very exciting

The premise of this film sounded interesting, but really was quite boring. The acting and visual landscape shots were good and kept me interested, but a lot of the movie is waiting for things to happen and then waiting after certain things happen.

Two environmentalist partner with an ex military marine to devise a plan to blow up a hydroelectric plant that they believe is harming nature in an act of sabotage. They meet up, iron out the details, then procure the necessary materials they need to get the job done.

Their scheme goes mostly the way they thought with one big exception they find out about the day after the deed is done.

The three handle the news in different ways and with a varied emotional reaction. They then start doubting each other will be able to keep the secret of what they have done and tensions begin to mount.

I hoping was hoping for more going on and there were long sequences where not much actually happened. I found myself checking the time every 20 minutes which is never a good sign.

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Erika (17789 KP) Sep 7, 2019

I've been debating watching this movie for a long time, but it does sound super boring.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Edge of Darkness in TV

May 5, 2020

Edge of Darkness

1985 | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

7.7

(3 Ratings)

TV Show Rating

Age shall not dim its brilliance, nor dodgy big-screen remakes with Mel Gibson: Edge of Darkness remains a landmark piece of TV drama, of enormous scope and ambition. The pitch - grieving detective hunts his daughter's murderer - sounds straightforward enough, even if the plot rapidly becomes ferociously convoluted. The key thing is that the conspiracy-detective storyline is in many ways the least important thing about the series.

Lengthy theses could and probably have been written about all the things that Edge of Darkness touches upon in the course of its six episodes: Anglo-American relations, the military-industrial complex, nuclear power, secret societies, ecology, the future of the human race, and much more (the original script ended with the main character mystically transforming into a tree). Strong performances and great direction keep it engrossing even when it's not entirely clear what's going on (you can generally get a sense of the direction of travel, though, and episode five works as a terrific mini-action movie even in isolation). Martin Campbell went on to successfully relaunch the Bond franchise twice, but this remains his magnum opus.