There are two or three great ideas in Edge Of Darkness, but none are exploited to their full effect. Instead, it is liposuctioned, lean and forgettable, while providing some jarringly exquisite eruptions of action.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2024

A fierce thriller that doesn’t disappoint.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

William Monahan’s script also brings a new sensibility that recalls contemporary American crime fiction as much as British conspiracy thriller and Campbell gives this take momentum and menace.

| Jul 1, 2023

Irrational thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 25, 2022

Only in Mel Gibson movies do the bad guys pay double for their crimes.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2020

The story's more thoughtful nuances (including the idea of a father haunted by guilt and his daughter's ghost) are soon jettisoned for more visceral thrills as Gibson's remorseless avenger hunts down his foes.

| Nov 27, 2020

A disappointing mishmash of performances.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

The problem here is the script, a hoary howler rife with maximum-revenge clichés and major-conspiracy convolutions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2020

[I]t's [Mel] Gibson who shines here, and it's fantastic to see him so back on form.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2019

Edge of Darkness has all the right ingredients to get us into Mel's corner...yet the film is lifeless, slow and worst of all, boring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2019

Never adds anything new to its genre, but it hits all the notes it sets out to hit with good, solid craftsmanship and little fuss.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

This is a film that has its crowd-pleasing moments, but also has a little substance beneath the surface that makes it pretty compelling, too.

| Original Score: B- | May 10, 2019

The acting, with the exception of Bojana Novakovic, adds nothing to the trite plot.

| Jan 13, 2018

In a film of unimpressionable characters, and vacant plots, Edge of Darkness is forgettable, dry and at times boring.

| Original Score: D | Sep 11, 2017

Gibson has always given good cop, and in Edge of Darkness he does not disappoint as decent, career-minded homicide detective Thomas Craven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2017

A thoughtful and harrowing drama about the lengths people will go to survive - and the changes of heart that one person undergoes to help them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2012

As I watched Edge of Darkness, I couldn't stop seeing it as a perverse form of Hollywood rehab.

| Sep 9, 2011

Films like this are musicals for people who enjoy gunfire and Mel Gibson being shouty. They're that satisfyingly heightened version of reality no one actually gets to experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Adapted from the landmark BBC mini-series by original director Martin Campbell, Edge of Darkness is a polished piece of political suspense masquerading as a crime drama and pulling off both rather successfully.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 21, 2011