Edge Of Darkness Movie Reviews

Mel Gibson, aged 54, might be playing a tough, no-nonsense cop in Martin Campbell's new film, but the actor has clearly come some way from his action-comedy roots. The first few minutes of Edge Of Darkness show Gibson's Tom Craven stand shellshocked as a masked man yells his name and shoots his daughter lethally in the chest, and yet when commiserating cops ask him if he has any suspects, Craven sullenly draws a blank.

The last time we saw Mel Gibson in a leading role, he was throwing cold water on alien invaders in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. Now after a hiatus spent burnishing his reputation as the world’s pre-eminent director of ultraviolent dead-language epics, he tries a return to movie-star form in Edge of Darkness, in which he plays a grieving dad trying to solve and avenge the death of his daughter. This is hardly new territory for Gibson