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Man on a Ledge, Movie

Man on a Ledge 2012

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You can only push an innocent man so far.

Police thriller about a wrongly-accused criminal (Sam Worthington, Avatar) who threatens to jump from a high-rise ledge in order to talk with a negotiator (Elizabeth Banks, Catch Me If You Can) and orchestrate a plan to prove his innocence. More

Nick (Worthington) was an honest cop who landed in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Desperate, he escapes and hours later stands on a New York City window ledge. Police cordon off the area and agree to Nick’s request to speak with police negotiator Lydia (Banks). But Lydia doesn’t know that she is part of his grand plan: the staged suicide is a diversion from a huge diamond heist happening somewhere else in the city. Also stars Ed Harris (The Truman Show) and Jamie Bell (King Kong). Hide

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    • Frazmetaz

      From the writers of 'Man in a Phone Booth' and 'The Fugitive Man.' Looks derivative and silly

    • Isla

      Looks great but I don't like Worthington and his douchebag haircut.

    • larri

      looks like the trailer just told the whole movie

    • Ms Terbate

      Brilliant title! As witty and lyrical as 'Snakes on a Plane!'

    • SenseiEpu

      Enough is enough. I've had it with these mother f#*king men on these mother f#*king ledges! LOL

    • Sensei Shonal

      I'm with you Epu! its time we got some women on some goddam ledges too!

    • Elna

      I'm afraid Senseis, that like the glass ceiling, there is also the glass ledge. You might see Mel Gibson's beaver on one though.

    • Community

      looks compelling enough, could easily sway into load of BS tho. Spesh with aussie Sam and his limp/bland acting. Jamie Bell is good tho

    • reetz

      sooo have to see this,love this dude sam for his acting. and he's not american, they are soo false, he's real.

    • Hugo Burns

      frickin awesome!

    • george

      They tell you the plot twist in the trailer???? Not clever!

    • muppet

      still with tha aussie accent bro, c'mon.

    • muppet

      i love it

    • Jwoww

      looks cool but dam it y did they give him that hair style

    • Simon-Howard

      Gutted that this has seemingly also been moved back from March 8th, despite release in USA this week. Can't understand it.

    • jessie

      looks awesome as! cant wait to go see it

    • bee(:

      is this worth seeing guys?

    • Wendyelise

      You bet it is, I loved it and so did my teenage daughter. But hey what do we know.

    • @bee

      No.

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  • Wendyelise

    this movie is truely amazing, there is so many twists and turns and just when you think you have it work out. Bam it gets you again.

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Matt Glasby Flicks Writer

Once in a while, a film comes along with exactly the right mixture of energy and amateurishness to promote it from so-bad-it’s-bad status up to so-bad-it’s-good. Displaying the pace, scale and utter witlessness of an early 1990s Arnie movie, Man On A Ledge teeters on that brink. More

After breaking out of prison during a faked funeral (surely no mean feat for a publically disgraced policeman) Nick Cassidy (Worthington) checks into New York’s Roosevelt Hotel, eats a symbolic last meal, then climbs out the window and threatens to jump, causing the city to grind to a halt beneath him.

Although it seems like the filmmakers started with the title – or perhaps that dizzying fish-eyed poster – and worked outwards, it’s a work of multiple unlikely plot strands. Cassidy’s Negotiator-style attention-grab is a cover for another, even stupider, stunt, which involves his brother Joey (Bell) and Joey’s girlfriend (Rodriguez) attempting to steal a narratively significant diamond from baddie David Englander (Harris) to clear our hero’s good name

The fact they’re not even sure of the stone’s whereabouts doesn’t deter them, and why should it? Nobody here seems to know what they’re doing. Elizabeth Banks makes an unlikely hostage expert, Worthington and Bell are difficult to buy as brothers, let alone Americans, and the logic of committing a string of extremely high-profile crimes to prove your innocence is never questioned. For these reasons, and more, Man fails as a big-screen release, but depending on your levels of credulity – and blood alcohol – it might just pass muster as a late-night six-pack flick. Hide

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Amazing Movie

Aidan1 Flicks Superstar (?)

This was amazing i was so impressed with this movie and the great camera shots. It also had a great story and i thought the actors did a great job. 5 stars

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Gripping action movie with a twist

likeyogi Nobody (?)

This movie provides action with the thriller genre element as a foundation structure being deeply rooted within the story. It has a well-balanced and easy to follow back story and its pace keeps you interested and entertained right to the end. Well worth the viewing time and definitely recommended.

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Press Reviews

A.V. Club (USA)

As the plot unfolds, brick by brick, the structure starts to wobble until it finally collapses into unintentional comedy. Full review.

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

The movie cuts back and forth between two preposterous plot lines and uses the man on the ledge as a device to pump up the tension. Full review.

Empire (UK)

It doesn't spend enough time on its ledge to be the definitive 'jumper' movie the title promises, but it’s a hoot if approached in the proper mood. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

To his credit, director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil) gets right to the business at hand where the set-up is concerned, but it's in the execution that this would-be thriller falls flat. Full review.

New York Times

Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness. Full review.

Rolling Stone (USA)

The shopworn script by Pablo F. Fenjves, who ghost-wrote the unpublished O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer, gets no help from director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil). Full review.

Time (USA)

It's fun in a perverse way; the viewer gets to experience a vivid sense of what it feels like to occupy a pigeon-poop smeared piece of stone high in the sky. Full review.

Time Out New York

Trusting an action drone like Worthington to anchor the human drama is a fatal mistake. With him perched on that narrow slab of concrete, it's only a matter of time before the film plummets. Full review.