was looking forward to see this movie since i saw the trailers and now that I have seen.

I thought it even better then it thought t be.

This movie had me on edge of seat thought the movie, I had no idea what going to happen next.

There was some very good tense scenes in this movie that really got me of seat and shouting at the TV.

There were some really good twist and turns in this movie that I didn't see coming at all.

I Thought the acting was really good from the whole cast and Extras too.

I expected a good movie but ended up seeing a great movie

8/10

Okay, I didn't know what to expect when I watched this. And, after about fifteen minutes, the jury was still out. A man, played by Sam Worthington, climbs out onto a hotel ledge and threatens to jump. We don't know why yet. Hopefully we will. So I watched on.

I guess the closest film like this was probably Phone Booth, i.e. it's primarily set in one, very public, location. However, Man on a Ledge is definitely different. Without giving too much away, the 'man' is on a mission and there are enough different locations in and around the building to hopefully not bore the viewer. There's action, conspiracies, baddies and everything you'd probably expect.

Basically, it's a thriller and not a bad one at that. I didn't expect to like it. I'm not a fan of Sam Worthington generally and I thought the 'on a ledge' idea was a bit gimmicky and couldn't see where they were going to go with it.

Now, on reflection, I'm glad I didn't know too much about the plot. I was pleasantly surprised.

Not a classic, but certainly good enough to entertain (although you may have to suspend your disbelief to fully appreciate it - there were parts that may not quite have happened that way in real life - the heroes were pretty lucky in places, but isn't that why we watch films?).

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Do they still have paint-by-the-numbers kits? They came with an assortment of paints, a brush and a black-and-white reproduction of a classic painting with the areas marked with numbers. You filled in those areas with the corresponding paint and you have painted an exact replica of the Mona Lisa or Blue Boy or whatever it was. The trouble is that unless you're dealing with Mondrian, you've missed all the subtleties.

That's the feeling I came away from MAN ON A LEDGE with. You have the outline of a story, but the characters that fill in the spaces are missing. We have the falsely accused cop, we have his gamecock brother and the brother's girlfriend who seems to have been a carney contortionist at some stage. Lucky him. You've got SOB real estate magnate Ed Harris and bluff Irish cop Ed Burns. Elizabeth Banks is the plucky young police negotiator who is desperate to redeem herself. That's where we start in terms of character and that's where we end. As these line paintings ran through the plot, I was left with a feeling of annoyance that the people in charge didn't even think it worthwhile to get their geography right; the Roosevelt Hotel is between Madison and Vanderbilt, not Madison and 5th.

The cinematographer tries to get some interesting moving extreme point-of-view shots to deal with an essentially restricted field of movement. However, without a script that does more than offer a series of plot points and a director unwilling to let a talented supporting cast fill out the emptiness with some subtlety to let the audience care about the people in this movie, you've got a paint-by-numbers movie. It looks like he didn't and the actors were content to bank their salaries and move on.