Film Review: Man On A Ledge (12A) (From The Northern Echo)

Film Review: Man On A Ledge (12A)

5:17pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Entertainment By Steve Pratt

Rating: 3/5

EX-COP Nick Cassidy books into the Roosevelt Hotel, orders one last meal on room service, then climbs out of the window and on to the ledge.

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At this point you might think you know where this movie is heading – a drama about efforts to stop the chap throwing himself from a very high building.

You’re right up to a point. Police negotiator Lydia Anderson (Elizabeth Banks) – herself having a crisis of sorts within her own department – duly appears and starts trying to persuade Cassidy to return inside.

Her colleagues, meanwhile, do their background checks only to discover he ‘s a former policeman who has escaped from prison – where he’s serving time for stealing a priceless jewel from billionaire David Englander (Ed Harris) – when given leave to attend his father’s funeral.

The twist – and as others have already given the game away I don’t feel guilty about continuing – is that his edge-of-the-ledge stunt is to draw away attention from what his brother and his girlfriend (Jamie Bell and Genesis Rodriguez) are up to on the other side of town.

Suffice it to say their mission is to prove Cassidy’s innocence.

Man On A Ledge is totally ridiculous with a plot that defies logic and makes little sense when you think about it but, for me, that’s a good thing.

Just sit back and enjoy the silliness of it all. I mean, where else would you find a jewel thief who wears a sexy red lace bra beneath her cat burglar’s gear?