"Edge Of Darkness" or "How To Ruin A Film In 45 Seconds"

“Edge Of Darkness”, the latest Mel Gibson action film to hit the DVD aisle, comes across for the first half of the film as though the plot may be interesting, if not ‘cliched with the usual “evil defense contractor” plot line.

Mel seems as though he’s trying to cash in just one more time on the tough guy image before his age makes these types of movies unrealistic for him to tackle. (side-note: he seems to add credence to the idea that one’s ears never stop growing)  But still, he pulls off the “nothing to lose” vengeful father roll respectably.

I of course roll my eyes as we find that his daughter turns out to be a whistle blower for a private firm who makes weapons for the defense department in secret.  To Hollywood, the only bad guys left seem to be defense contractors, corporations, Christians, Southerners, and Soldiers.

But the one thing I couldn’t take was a little “explanation” as to why exactly the “whistle” was being blown.  The main bad guy, the CEO of course, of this company manufacturing the weapons tells his government “handler” that it wouldn’t be good for the news to come out that his company is making “dirty bombs” for the US government using foreign materials to foreign specifications so when the bombs went off they would be blamed on jihadists. (and despite spell check insisting that I capitalize “jihadists”, I refuse to do so)  What a liberal “wet dream” this scenario is.  A little “gift” to the 911 truthers out there I suppose.  I couldn’t focus on much of the film after that little bit of delusion, but I’m guessing he killed some people and then maybe died, I don’t know.

I really don’t understand why Hollywood and liberals in general don’t re-embrace Gibson.  After all, they seem to have some things in common.  Gibson’s political views have always seemed very much liberal, and he’s been known to go off on tirades against Israel and the Jewish people, so why don’t the liberals like him?  They trash Israel while licking the feet of the palestians constantly.  Oh yea, I forgot, he defied Hollywood and made that pesky Jesus film that stuck pretty close to the Biblical story; a seemingly unforgivable sin in today’s Hollywood.