Man on a Ledge (2012)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
DVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Cover | 01:42:18 | 7,25 Gb
Audio: English, Spanish - AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English SDH, Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Crime
DVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Cover | 01:42:18 | 7,25 Gb
Audio: English, Spanish - AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English SDH, Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Crime
In the heart-pounding thriller “Man on a Ledge,” Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) makes a desperate and life-threatening move to prove his innocence after he is framed for the theft of a rare, prized diamond. Recently escaped from prison and with nowhere else to go, Nick climbs onto the ledge of a towering skyscraper, inviting the eyes of New York City to anxiously watch as one wrong step could mean plunging to his death. But as one police negotiator soon learns, Nick’s daredevil stunt, captivating the eyes of the public and media, masks a dangerous ploy to reveal the truth about his tarnished name.With the help of his brother and with time running out, Nick’s intricate plan must work perfectly, but when you’re on the 25th floor ledge of a building, going down takes on an entirely more hair-raising meaning.
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"Man on a Ledge" doesn't aim high, but what it aims to do, it does. It grabs the audience's attention, engages its anxieties, stokes its resentments and, at the finish, sends people out saying, "That was good." A year from now, no one will care about it or even think about it, but for right now, for this particular moment, this is a movie pressing the right buttons.
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The hard-to-resist premise would guarantee an audience in any climate: A falsely accused man (Sam Worthington), released from prison on a one-day pass, escapes, takes a room in a high-end New York hotel and steps out onto the ledge, threatening to kill himself. But the suicide threat and the traffic-stopping theatrics are just covers for something else, a high-risk, one-shot-in-hundred plan to exonerate himself before a live TV audience.
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Fine. Good enough. Sold: Hit thrillers have been made from lesser ideas. But the something extra at work here is the way in which "Man on a Ledge" plays on the anger the audience is already feeling. Who put our hero behind bars? Of course, it was a big businessman (Ed Harris), covering up his crimes. And who serves as the businessman's henchmen? None other than the government itself, represented here by a phalanx of corrupt police officers who know the truth but don't care - thugs who can murder with impunity.
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This is no place for a history lesson, but if you go back to the Great Depression, the top movie villains were businessmen and cops. In bad times, the individual - the man alone, on the ledge, with nothing to rely on but courage and the truth - counts for everything, and organized authority is looked upon with fear and suspicion. We're there again.
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The actors perform their important function of fleshing things out, taking a movie designed as an audience-pleasing machine and turning it into something human. Worthington has the right innate toughness, and he digs down to find the desperation to make sense of the character's actions, and Edward Burns is appealing as an almost jaded cop who still has a soul.
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But the performance that lingers is that of Elizabeth Banks, as an officer specializing in talking down hostage takers and would-be jumpers. Banks knows she's playing a professional listener, and so she listens beautifully - watching and reacting with a natural empathy tempered by years of hearing lies. Banks, who was Laura Bush in "W.," deserves a role tailored to her specifications. In the meantime, she takes whatever they give her and makes it special, whether the role demands the harsh comic antics of "Our Idiot Brother" or the terror and despair of "The Next Three Days." She makes "Man on a Ledge" feel as if it's her story.
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The height effects are done with considerable care. Worthington was certainly never in danger during the making of the film, but the illusion of being high up is complete. It's aided by the fact that Worthington himself never acts like a man who feels safe up there. So we don't, either.
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Special Features:
- The Ledge Featurette
- Trailer With Commentary By Elizabeth Banks
Man on a Ledge (2012)
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