Behold.
A man.
A ledge.
A man on a ledge...sometimes.
Now, this could have been something quite beautiful, moving and clever.
Just picture it; a man, a suicidal man, a man with nothing left to live for, a hopeless man...perched high above a city that doesn't care whether he lives or dies...looking down on the half lives, half lived...feeling more alive than he ever has at the moment that his life is about to end.
Phew.
Sadly this is not that film.
This is a film about an innocent man, wrongfully arrested, his life taken from him and his attempts to make those responsible pay.
Actually that sounds pretty good too.
No?
Yes.
Even more sadly this is a film that cannot manage to take a good idea and make a good film out of it.
This is dumb, dumb, dumb and dumber.
Plot holes bigger than Michael Fassbenders magic wand.
Acting so stiff and wooden that you could smell the MDF from the back row.
A script that makes the writers on "The Archers" look like Aaron Sorkin.
Honestly, I know that this sounds terribly mean and that it reeks of the sort of "look at me" film criticism that nobody likes but this is a truly horrible cinematic experience.
Even Ed Harris is simply going through the motions...you can see the pain etched on his face as he delivers every ridiculous line he's given.
You don't believe me?
This film actually contains the line; "Nobody's getting into that beast" which is uttered by a security guard who is awe-struck by a safe.
A safe.
We are meant to believe that anyone would be wowed by a safe?
"Nobody's getting into that beast"
I mean, really.
Leading man Sam Worthington has appeared in;
"Terminator: Salvation"
"Avatar"
"Clash of the Titans"
He is currently slated for "Wrath of the Titans" and "Avatar 2".
This should tell you something about Worthington and everything about "Man on a Ledge".
To appear in one "Avatar" is unfortunate but to agree to appear in a second is just perverse.
No, I'm afraid that "Man on a Ledge" is just about the least amount of fun you can have in a dark room.
Boo.
