3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Hopkins at his best

A Customer from Edinburgh, Scotland, 2nd September, 2005

A highly enjoyable thriller with a simple story that keeps the focus on the characters. Hopkins is fantastic as the shy billionaire Charles Morse.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Grizzly

Jennifer Lazzari from Gainsborough, England, 23rd July, 2007

I saw this film a few years ago and remembered the scene where they are being hunted down by a bear. I thought it was very graphic then and was determined that it wouldn't have the same effect the second time but it did. Very well done and I would even think about purchasing this for future viewing.

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The Edge

A Customer from PERSHORE, 6th February, 2010

This film was worth waiting for. A good story shot in fantactic scenery. Anthony Hopkins steals the show even with Alec Baldwin in the supporting cast. The plot develops over the period of the movie and comes to a climax toward the end....but even then there is a twist in the tail that comes quite unexpected. A thoroughly good movie that is worth watching. Don't go out and make the tea without pausing!

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The Edge

Wynter from , 18th August, 2009

1997 was a good year for David Mamet. As well as a play and a book (The Old Neighbourhood and The Old Religion) there was Wag The Dog, which he wrote, and The Spanish Prisoner, which he also directed then there was the fantastic survival thriller The Edge. Directed by Lee Tamahori, the film sees billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) survive a plane crash thus becoming stranded in the wilderness with a photographer (Alec Baldwin) and his assistant (Harold Perrineau) and hunted by a man-eating bear. What marks the film out as a solid piece of work is Mamet’s simple and unsentimental view of nature (including man) as a savage opponent and Tamahori’s uncomplicated direction. Re-watching The Edge in the aftermath of More 4’s recent season on bears, one suspects Grizzly Man (2005) director Werner Herzog would approve. Both films extol the view of nature as being ‘red in tooth and claw’ and whilst Timothy Treadwell’s fate was seemingly sealed because of his child like ignorance and sentimentality, Charles Moore has a mountain of knowledge to fall back on and an understanding of survival as an act rather than a concept – “most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame.” Here is an understanding that if you strip away the comfort of civilisation there is nothing to life but the constant battle of survival. As ever Mamet is telling it how it is, an unsentimental trait that seeps through his work (in Spartan (2004) a soldier is told that a Ranger survival manual passed down through his family might save his life one day – “use it to start a fire”), no matter what the setting, and strips films down to basic, effective mechanics… and he also writes fantastic dialogue.

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Never got this one

A Customer from Poole, 24th July, 2009

Sorry I never received this one so Ihave to order it again.I know it is a good film.

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Love it!

A Customer from Derry. Northern Ireland, 29th June, 2009

You wont be disappointed with this film. A really excellent film. A must see. Hopkins steals every scene. Really suspenceful. The grizzly Bear called Bart is brilliant.

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