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Man on a Ledge

2012

Asger Leth

Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Edward Burns ...

5.6

9,637

Thriller An ex-cop turned con named Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"This cloddishly contrived suspenser is too busy to bore, but too farfetched to thrill"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness"	NEG
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"Sam Worthington does a frighteningly good job (...) Leth does well in taking us to dizzying heights. If only he had found a way to ground that thrill in some real pathos as well"	NEU
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"A movie that employs all the mechanics of a standard Hollywood thriller, while taking sidelong glances at the same voyeurism that fuels both the film and cinema itself"	NEU
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Leth gets right to the business at hand where the set-up is concerned, but it's in the execution that this would-be thriller falls flat"	NEU

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