enteredapprenticering Review of Man on a Ledge

Man on a Ledge (2012)

Predictable cheap story, not credible characters

[4/10 · 8 April 2012]

The story starts out with way too common themes, that have not only been overplayed in various movies already, but are connected in a not credible manner, it is almost a shame to have great actors like Ed Harris partaking in this very predictable movie. These themes are: cop in prison who is innocent and needs to prove it, bad cops that set him up, his long-term partner that supposedly is his friend, but also dirty, the "family members of NY Cops stick together" theme and last but not least the bad and corrupt powerful business magnate who has cops and the mayor in his pocket. The way the themes are tried to be connected are not credible and in some parts outright laughable. Just to mention one that is especially not credible: the actress Genesis Rodriguez plays the girlfriend of the cop-hero's brother. She is much more than just a pretty face and actually a great actress, as will be proved in the 2013 production of The Last Stand alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. But here in this movie, she is either reduced in a non-classy manner to show a physically fit body with emphasis on her push-up bra or elevated to be a top-notch sophisticated thief breaking in a state-of-the-art high-security vault, where priceless jewelery is stored. Her qualification to be able to do so is explained by "having sometimes broken into houses as a teenager in high-school". Let this movie go, folks. Don't say I didn't tell you. Only 4 of 10.