Mel Gibson is a troubled soul, what with all the booze and Jew-hating. I know there are people who can't separate art from the artist so me recommending Edge Of Darkness will no doubt fall on deaf ears. Edge of Darkness is a slow burn with sparse, dry dialogue. When characters weren't engaging in lengthy discussions on how to kill one another; the action that followed made up for 'meh' moments. The plot is simple and the supporting characters are majorly one-dimensional. Edge of Darkness competently tells a linear tale that many movies of various budgets could learn from. When Gibson is left to being an angry, self-loathing archetype, he is in his element.