They are dramatic little gems that can make people do crazy things- get down on one knee, hold up a jewlery store and make us listen to countless amounts of Shane Co and Zales commercials. In this case it is all the fault of a single diamond that Nick Cassidy was forced to stand on the ledge of a building for the entire 1 hour and 40 minute running time of the film, oh-so-creatively titled Man on a Ledge.
It's difficult for me to know where to begin when reviewing this film. It starts with a sequence of flashbacks so that the audience is not left completely in the dark as to how the whole being on a ledge thing started. These flashbacks indicated that he has been sentenced to 25 years in prision, went to his dad's funeral and then got in a couple of fights with cops and miraculously survived being hit by a train. Now he's on a ledge. But WHY?? I know you are all dying to know. But don't worry, over the course of the movie, he will tell you all about it.
The story drips out bit by bit through his conversations with Officer Mercer (Elizabeth Banks) who is the sassy, hostage negotiator that isn't afraid to ruffle some tailfeathers on the force. She learns of his intentions and that some crooked cops actually set him up for stealing a 40million dollar diamond from some bigshot businesman who needed a little more money. She begins to believe in him and its a race to the finish as she tries to prolong the situation and the other cops from shooting Cassidy. Meanwhile, Cassidy is waiting for his brother and his wife to break into the business across the street to steal the diamond proving his innocence in time.
The plot builds like an M80 and once the fuse goes out it explodes with everythign happening all at once. However, just like an M80, after the climanx, there is just a bunch of bits everywhere that the movie seems to just sweep up and put right into the trash as plotholes and happily every after solutions seem to lull the crowd into a happy but confused closure which makes for a good car ride home.
It's difficult for me to know where to begin when reviewing this film. It starts with a sequence of flashbacks so that the audience is not left completely in the dark as to how the whole being on a ledge thing started. These flashbacks indicated that he has been sentenced to 25 years in prision, went to his dad's funeral and then got in a couple of fights with cops and miraculously survived being hit by a train. Now he's on a ledge. But WHY?? I know you are all dying to know. But don't worry, over the course of the movie, he will tell you all about it.
The story drips out bit by bit through his conversations with Officer Mercer (Elizabeth Banks) who is the sassy, hostage negotiator that isn't afraid to ruffle some tailfeathers on the force. She learns of his intentions and that some crooked cops actually set him up for stealing a 40million dollar diamond from some bigshot businesman who needed a little more money. She begins to believe in him and its a race to the finish as she tries to prolong the situation and the other cops from shooting Cassidy. Meanwhile, Cassidy is waiting for his brother and his wife to break into the business across the street to steal the diamond proving his innocence in time.
The plot builds like an M80 and once the fuse goes out it explodes with everythign happening all at once. However, just like an M80, after the climanx, there is just a bunch of bits everywhere that the movie seems to just sweep up and put right into the trash as plotholes and happily every after solutions seem to lull the crowd into a happy but confused closure which makes for a good car ride home.
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