Movie: The Edge of Darkness

Mel Gibson is BACK!!! Finally back from the shadows of scandalous embarassment to grace us again with his amazing acting talent in yet another excellant action flick. The guy may be an anti-semite, but then again so was Ezra Pound, and, like Pound, Gibson is brilliant at his art. Gibson, who has proved himself quite comparable in protraying the unstable paranoid (Hamlet, Conspiracy Theory) and ruthless revenge seekers (Payback), is perfect for the part.

The film is a movie version of a popular British television series in the '80s. The show was based around officer Ronald Craven trying to solve the murder of his activist daughter and thereby unwinding a deep and troubling conspiracy effort by the government (got to love those Brits and their paranoia for the state). Robert Di Niro was originally supposed to play the part of the British sounding fellow, Ray Winstone (The Departed), but he left production the day he arrived on set due to alleged creative differences.