Absolutely Brilliant!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Man on a Ledge is truly a terrific film it starts as a suicide movie and turns into an action thriller which keeps you at the edge of your seat and you really want to see what is going to happen next. Also William Sadler and Sam Worthington look like father and son a little bit and Ed Harris gives a great performance as the bad guy also Elizabeth Banks is amazing. Some of the stunts were also real and Harris gave a big bravo to Sam for doing them. If you like good action movies that they have an actual plot and a good acting you will definitely find enjoying this movie. I give it a 10 out of 10 because watching Jake Sully jumping from a rooftop is always awesome!!!

I want to say that I liked this film because it was pretty entertaining, all things considered. But there were so many ridiculous implausibilities and sitcom-like moments that I cannot really praise it as a work of art. It's always nice when the good guy prevails and the evil guy is exposed, but in this story it only happens by the grace of God or reasonable facsimile. The only reason why the convict framed for the theft of a jewel still in the possession of its owner ends up prevailing is because the latter was stupid enough to remove the rock from the safe in which it was stowed and then proceeded to walk around New York City with it in his pocket. On top of that, the idea that a couple of complete novices (the convict's brother and his girlfriend) could actually pull off entry into a top-security vault (where they did not find the diamond anyway, of course) stretches credulity to its breaking point. And then there were the gratuitous and nonsensical depictions of the girlfriend as a bimbo in a Victoria's Secret thong and push-up bra as she squeezed into her Emma Peel style skin-tight suit. And then there's the blonde negotiator, Mercer, who is also supposed to be something of a tramp but ends up together with the ex-convict after she helps him to clear his name.Overall, the ratio of deus ex machina to plausible plot was way too high. None of this could or would ever have happened. The tone is that of a gritty crime drama—with a touch of slapstick thrown in for laughs. I think that gritty crime dramas work better when what they depict could in fact happen in the real world. This was more like fantasyland. If pigs could fly, sure, but the main character in this film would have been killed or thrown back in the slammer, barring that.

Maybe this movie would get 7/10 if it were made 20 years ago. I don't know maybe I have seen too many movies, but there was nothing fresh, and it was kinda boring and at times not believable. I'm not talking action scenes not being believable, I am OK with that. The normal drama scenes were the problem. Elisabeth Banks didn't do a very good job in my opinion. She is beautiful though.The ending of the movie is like what??!?It's good, but that was so lucky it's not even funny. I was wondering all along what the plan is, to reveal Ed Harris is a fraud.Their original plan could not work. What would Sam's brother and his girl do if they found the diamond in the place where it was supposed to be? No one would believe them. They could plant it there! Like what was the plan!!??And so, that plan fails , and then another plan fails, and then, plan C that could not be possibly predicted works great, and is probably the only possible way that all this stuff could work.Well in the end at least it worked.The movie actually wasn't that bad. It was just OK. And had some problems. Mainly though, I just wish the actors and casting did a better job. The only great role was Ed Harris.This movie is so so. Has some watchable moments, but it just doesn't click. Maybe I could give it 6/10 , but 5/10 is fair.

The movie was okay for most of it, then it took a turn. I'm so sick of modern writers. They write a character who is supposedly so smart that he can outsmart everybody and get the diamond, but not smart enough to realize that giving the diamond back means nothing, they're all dead anyway because men like that don't let people live. Lazy writing makes me want to find out where the writers live, fly, take a train, or whatever how many days it takes to get there, go to their house, knock on their door and punch the writers in the face when they answer the door for being lazy, inept idots using lame plot devices and not staying true to characters they spent time building and wasting our time with drivel. The characters spend all this time getting the diamond to prove his innocence but they have no end game. Seriously, they didn't plan this out. I'm no writer but just off the top of my head in thirty seconds I can come up with they could have had cameras with them broadcasting live to the internet when he returned to his office with the diamond proving he had it all along. They could have used their guns to walk him down to the street and make him reveal on camera to the hundreds of people waiting and the news crews that he had it all along. I'm not even a writer and I came up with two way more plausible outcomes than the hacks who wrote this did and I did it in seconds. You would suppose they had months to write it but the best they could come up with for a man they wrote as so intelligent that he could outsmart everyone, get out of prison, recover the diamond, set off an explosion while nobody notices, keep the public eye on him the whole time, he's that brilliant, but so they can have an action scene, they suddenly write this character they've portrayed as so bloody brilliant as the stupidest moron on earth with no exit plan. The hacks who wrote this should never get another job.