Alright, two white guys and a black guy take a walk in the woods........who dies first? Sounds like a bad joke right?! No, no, someone was paid a tidy sum to turn this ridiculous premise into a screen play and that someone would be the most overrated writer in Hollywood......none other than David Mamet! The more I become familiar with his work, the more my loathing for him reaches Costner like proportions. Well that might be taking it a bit too far, how can anyone truly rival the evilness of Costner.......Damn you Costner!!!! Damn you to hell!!!! At any rate Mamet truly urks my soul.

The Edge is a movie I hadn't seen in years until recently when I stumbled across the DVD, and the cover alone warranted it to be reviewed for Bad Movie Knights. Close your eyes and picture this my friends: Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins both bearing their teeth in rage. The laughter that ensued from this image made it difficult to steady my hand to insert the DVD into the player.

David Mamet brilliantly pits billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins),photographer Robert Green (Alec Baldwin) and his assistant Stephen (Harold Perrineau) against the Alaskan wilderness. No, I wasn't joking, who do you think will die first?! A photo shoot set in scenic Alaska featuring Charles's trophy wife, Elle Mcpherson, isn't going as well as Robert had hoped for. I know, Elle playing a model, hard to believe. Who's complaining, we get to look at Elle! Allas, our tit counter did not activate for The Edge. Come on Elle, why so shy all of the sudden? As for the photo shoot, Robert is throwing a hissy fit, and in this regard Alec's performance is flawless. His portal of playing a premadana bitch, which almost all fashion photographers are, is amusing as hell and scarily accurate. Needing to obtain the most difficult thing to make a simple photo shoot work Robert insists on tracking down a local hunter to complete his "vision." An impromptu flight is arranged to find this guy and Robert convinces Charles to join the adventure. Needless to say the adventure turns into disaster as the plane crashes into the wilderness. Before you know it, our three hero's are being tracked by a man eating grizzly bear! The first one to go is..........oh, I won't ruin it for you.

The Edge is a fairly entertaining movie with high production value. The footage involving the Bart the grizzly bear is quite impressive and in my humble opinion Bart steels the movie. As I stated before, Baldwin's performance is top notch and we are treated to Anthony Hopkins over the top impression of Al Pacino. One of his rantings features my fellow Bad Movie Knight Pat's favorite line. "We're going to kill the mother fucker!" Nice! If your looking for a mediocre buddy movie with a bear and a cheating wife look no further then The Edge!

Hamlin Grade: 3.5

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