Actor comebacks can sometimes be a bigger story than the movie they’re in. We saw that with Demi Moore when she played the villain in “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” and we might be swerving into the same territory with Mel Gibson in “Edge of Darkness.”
Don’t get me wrong... Demi Moore looks much better in a bikini than Mel Gibson does (at least at his age), and that’s not to say that “Edge of Darkness” isn’t enjoyable to some degree. However, Gibson has done much better films in the past, and this won’t be remembered much beyond the news stories about it being his first starring role since “Signs.”
“Edge of Darkness” follows Craven (Gibson), a Boston police detective whose only daughter is murdered on his doorstep after she returns home for a visit. The entire police force seems to think that he was the intended target, but as Craven digs in to the case, he discovers a greater conspiracy and much darker motivations.
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