The Edge | | Cast : | Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin | | Director : | Lee Tamahori | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | September 26, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | December 14, 2004 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Incredible | Content
 | Baldwin and Hopkins are masterful actors in this film. This film's suspense is top notch, and Hopkins' performance proves to me that he is in Olivier's class as one of the top five actors of all time, hands down. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 08, 2005 | | Summary | BEAR NECESSITIES | Content
| David Mamet's trademark dialogue is present in THE EDGE, a film that is buoyed by its stars performances and some truly disturbing scenes featuring Bart the Bear. Anthony Hopkins is a billionaire who accompanies his model wife (Elle McPherson) on a photo shoot in the Canadian wilderness. The cinematography brilliantly captures the immense wilderness beautifully. Hopkins is invited by his wife's manager (an effective Alec Baldwin) to join him on a brief flight north to get an Indian for a model. Harold Perrineau Jr. as Steve accompanies the two but the trip becomes a nightmare when a bizarre accident downs the plane and leaves the three survivors to find their way to rescue. Of course, Hopkins suspects Baldwin of having an affair with his wife, and is sure Baldwin is going to kill him to get her and his vast fortune. Bart the Bear begins stalking the survivors and in a particularly horrifying scene, devours Perrineau, leaving Hopkins and Baldwin on their own.
Mamet's script tends to be a little too literary but it doesn't diminish the impact of the situation, and Hopkins is typically brilliant as the billionaire.
THE EDGE is worthwhile entertainment and is to be commended on its viscerality and portrayal of the ordinary man up against the extraordinary. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 29, 2004 | | Summary | THIS IS NOT ANAMORPHIC OR ENHANCED FOR WS TV | Content
| How unfortunate that this movie was released on DVD by one of only several studios that refused initially to accept the anamorphic format.
What this means, is that if you own a 16x9 television, you will not only have the black bars on the top and bottom, but on the sides as well. If you use the ZOOM feature of your 16x9 tv, it fills the screen, but it pixilates and degrades the video terribly. So you'll end up watching it in full letterbox hell.
Don't buy this, until they do the right thing and re-release it in anamorphic widescreen. After all, they DID release it in anamorphic widescreen in EUROPE. [...]
Good viewing, everyone. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 30, 2004 | | Summary | Great story in a beautiful setting | Content
| Although the plot was nothing new, it was filmed in a beautiful setting and used one of the best actors currently doing movies. Anthony Hopkins does an excellent job in the role of eccentric billionaire, and Alec Baldwin is very believable as the back stabbing urbanite. The bear is simply amazing.
One of the better movies out there, and it will make you think "what would I do"? Well worth the purchase price. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 20, 2004 | | Summary | By God this film was bad! | Content
| I thought this was the worst film I had ever seen. Then I saw Antitrust. The Edge is now the second worst film I have ever seen.
Still, I got a good laugh out of the part where the desperate city-folk stranded in the wilderness use POINTED STICKS to defeat the merciless man-eating bear twice their height - and then appear in the very next scene in very dapper, matching bear-skin vests. |
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