What lets the movie down, surprisingly enough, is its David Mamet script which promises high tension and emotional confrontation bolted to quality action.
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The Edge (1997)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:24
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: An aging billionaire (Hopkins) and a fashion photographer (Baldwin) having an affair with the rich man's wife must struggle against the elements--including a man-eating bear--after their plane goes... [More]
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau
Director: Lee Tamahori
Reviews for The Edge
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01/26/06
Top Critic...even less intelligent than your average action flick.
01/01/00
I laughed frequently, but the problem is that I'm not sure the director intended there to be as much humor in his film as I uncovered.
01/01/00
Not a great movie by any stretch, but hugely entertaining nonetheless.
01/01/00
A wilderness struggle that will take you to some deep emotional places.
02/28/02
Bart the Bear delivers the film's most memorable performance.
01/01/00
It's subtly funny in the way it toys with the cliches of the genre.
01/01/00
Top Critic...the project resonates because of the talent of its stars...
01/01/00
...a solid man-against-nature tale...
01/01/00
With its stripped-down emphasis on surviving the elements and a natural predator, The Edge generates more suspense than many a fabricated action thriller.
01/01/00
...The Edge is not only half-baked, warmed-over Hemingway.
01/01/00
...not a terrifically memorable piece of filmmaking.
01/08/05
The Edge succeeds ably in blending his famously acerbic dialogue with nerve-racking adventure scenes.
01/01/00
Top CriticBut it's too predictable by half, and Mamet's profundities have more volume than mass.
01/01/00
A mediocre tale of wilderness survival.
01/01/00
A few scattered profanities, a couple of gory accidents and a subplot about suspected adultery are all that separates this story from the grade-school classic "My Side of the Mountain."
06/23/02
Unsuccessfully mixes melodrama with action/adventure and satire.
01/21/04
It takes more than a few lines of clever dialogue, a hero who reads books, and an actor with British training and lots of dignity to keep a movie from going pretty much by the book.
01/01/00
Anthony Hopkins' first action movie casts him as a gentle, brainy tycoon stuck in the Alaskan wilderness with only voracious bears and, just as threatening, Alec Baldwin for company.
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Latest News for The Edge
February 02, 2006:
Director Lee Tamahori Charged With Solicitation
According to celeb-watching site TMZ.com, New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori was arrested January 8 in Hollywood for solicitation of an undercover cop; furthermore, the... More...
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