1997 · action · adventure · drama
The Edge
Directed by Lee Tamahori1h 57m1997
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.
Our read: The Edge (1997) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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