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Summary: The Edge Keeps You On the Edge Of Your Seat!
Review: The acting in this film is superb; as is the suspense factor! In the movie, Hopkins, who plays an eccentric rich guy and Baldwin, who plays a slick play-boy who's after Hopkin's beautiful model wife, get stranded together in the Alaskan wildnerness after their plane crashes. Enter: THE BEAR! This bear deserves an academy award for being one of the most terrifying creatures ever to appear on the screen! This bear actually STALKS the men in the woods, creating an almost palpable air of suspense that will terrify you, even as you sit in the comfort of your own home! This movie is a definite "must see" - cleverly written and rivetting, no matter how many times you view it!
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Summary: We all agree
Review: Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin in an rugged, outdoorsy, life lesson learning film. Need we say anymore?
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Summary: Excellent thriller!
Review: This is one great movie. It will keep you on The Edge of your seat. The tension between the 2 main characters is the driving force of the movie. The acting is supurb. The Bear scenes are excellent also. A good movie to watch over and over again!
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Summary: Cutting Edge
Review: Despite having a title that makes me want to whip out a razor and shave my beard off, The Edge throws a couple of panty-waists into the wilderness and forces them to survive by wits alone. Wits. Remember those little cells, gray in hue, perfect in a pinch? As written by playwright David Mamet, The Edge comes across as a slightly goofy Jack London story, where jet-setters and shallow business types take the place of grizzled codgers and naive hikers. But like a brisk walk on a chilly October night, The Edge might just put a little blush in your cheeks.
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Summary: Good video, better actor performance: Anthony Hopkins
Review: The only mediocre in this film is Alec Baldwin, he overacted the scenes of horror or tension, it was better if he takes some expertice from Mr. Hopkins, he is really a master of actors.
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Summary: Great Drinking Movie
Review: OK First off, the movie was solid, good plot, great actors, not Elle Though, She should have shown her breast, but over all a 4 star rating. Now what I mean about the Drinking. While sent to Italy for the Bosnia Conflict my cohorts and I rented this movie. We found that A. Hopkins Charater gets his name called several times during the movie, so much so that we started to do shots everytime "CHARLES" was said. We never make it to the end of the movie without being BOMBED out of our gords...I won't say how many times his name is said, count for your self... Ok have fun and Don't drink and Drive...Arrive Alive.!
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Summary: Very Well Done, though puzzling emotionally
Review: Anthony Hopkins is great as usual and gives his character depth. Well written dialogue and story as Alec Baldwin plays the role he's been stereotyped in: the bad guy who isn't totally bad. The ambiguity of the final portion left me confused as to what was happening in Hopkin's character's mind. Why would he care about Baldwin's character? The film is frought with cryptic references and a soul-searching undercurrent during the fight for survival in Alaskan wilderness. Finally, the bear is really what the meat of the film seems to be about. The exciting terror of outwitting a bear before he has you for dinner. All else is a bit of an ill concieved 2nd plot, though the whole effort is worth seeing. At least you cant say too much is explained.
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Review: If you're coming at this picture as a David Mamet fan, you may or may not find it rewarding. The usual themes, subtlety of character, and strange, slowly evolving tensions are all there. Hopkins and Baldwin are both quite good, though the performances are slightly odd at times, and the looming threat of the bear throughout the film, and the fact that it serves as a symbolic and kinetic motif rather than a vehicle for a single action sequence, is to the film's credit. I could've done without the mandatory bear-meat minority character, though, and we all could've done without Elle Macpherson as Hopkins' wife. Mamet's sensibilities and dialogue do come off a bit awkward in this film, due to its setting. I like the script a great deal, but there's no getting around the fact that it feels like the script to a play rather than a wilderness movie. That juxtaposition could've been interesting enough to be more wholly condoned, but the aesthetics seem a tad clumsy at times. On the whole, this isn't exactly the dialogue-driven masterpiece that something like, say, Glengarry Glen Ross was, but it's still a solid, engaging film, full of those fun Mametesque character tensions that make his work so rewarding to his fans. The action sequences are well-handled and feel like a natural part of the film rather than brainless stunt-work and eye-candy. The cinematography is breathtaking, but it loses a LOT of its potency on video. This is one of those movies that should really be seen, if given the option, in widescreen format on a big, loud TV.
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Summary: Good Movie Except for...
Review: Anthony Hopkins is a wonderful actor. And sexy too. This movie was suspenseful, and well-written. In my personal opinion, it would have been better without Alec Baldwin. He just doesn't draw the crowds into theatres like some other actors do. If Anthony Hopkins could have been paired with, say, Tom Cruise, or Bruce Willis, I think this movie would have done better at the box office. If you think about it and add things up, Alec Baldwin isn't much of a draw. But wasn't that bear scarey! Run, Anthony, run!
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Summary: Alec Balwin deserves the academy award for his performance
Review: Alec Baldwin could not have done a better job in this movie!! Lots of tense excitement. Unfortunately Anthony Hopkins is rather bland. But very good movie on the whole. Worth watching.
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