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Alynda Wheat, People: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...silly but pulsing..." (Read the full review...) 29 words, 02/02/12 Mary Pols, Time: MODERATE "...slight, but crowd-pleasing... stays aloft on the sparks provided by Banks, Ed Burns... Anthony Mackie... and particularly, Bell and Rodriguez.... I don't think I'll be the only viewer to care more about the charming couple across the street than the imperiled man on the ledge." (Read the full review...) 735 words, 01/26/12 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...so cliched and reheated, it almost feels like a parody of a generic action picture -- only no one seems to be in on the joke." (Read the full review...) 254 words, 01/26/12 Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Despite the occasional dumb fun -- especially with the heist portions -- the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk." (Read the full review...) 154 words, 01/27/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) " 'Man on a Ledge' just sits there like a lump of breeding clichés." (Read the full review...) 170 words, 01/27/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: WEAK (cg) "...the film succumbs to clichés, grows convoluted and outlandish, and winds up dead on arrival." (Read the full review...) 465 words, 01/27/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: MODERATE (cg) "...if we're experienced moviegoers, we have a good idea he isn't going to jump anytime real soon, because then the movie would be over, get it?" (Read the full review...) 822 words, 01/27/12 Kat Murphy, MSN Movies: WEAK (cg) "...fails, due to a convoluted plot that's also stunningly improbable.... Still, fortified with sufficient popcorn and soda pop, killing time with this amiable mess isn't the worst you could do at the multiplex." (Read the full review...) 780 words, 01/27/12 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a heist film with a great hook, a fast pace, and a major letdown of an ending.... Those who are more forgiving of lame endings than I am may walk away having enjoyed themselves." (Read the full review...) 812 words, 01/25/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "...any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter.... Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness." (Read the full review...) 461 words, 01/27/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "The primary problem is that [director Asger Leth] seems to want things both ways, seeking gritty, socially relevant New York realism from an unconvincingly glam cast -- including Kyra Sedgwick and Anthony Mackie -- saddled with hokey dialogue." (Read the full review...) 310 words, 01/27/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "[Director Asger] 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." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 01/27/12 Sara Stewart, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "...unconvincing and incoherent... Stranding [Sam Worthington] on a foot of concrete where he can't get into even one fistfight seems like a waste of a good paycheck." (Read the full review...) 522 words, 01/27/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "Danish director Asger Leth gets the job done with minimal style and a generally indistinct tone." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 01/27/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: WEAK (cg) "Cardboard acting and a threadbare plot make this thriller a waste of a perfectly good title." (Read the full review...) 505 words, 01/27/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "...if we're experienced moviegoers, we have a good idea he isn't going to jump anytime real soon, because then the movie would be over, get it?" (Read the full review...) 822 words, 01/27/12 Brian Miller, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...this film doesn't realize it's a comedy.... There are nods to Occupy Wall Street and 'Dog Day Afternoon,' but the whole thing plays like random outtakes from 'Law & Order.' You keep waiting for Chris Noth to wander onto the scene." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 01/25/12 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "...a heist picture that steals brain cells... an unabashed 'B' movie crowded with 'B' actors: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Edward Burns, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Kyra Sedgwick and Genesis Rodriguez." (Read the full review...) 496 words, 01/27/12 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "At first 'Man on a Ledge' seems like a film about the fear of heights; after the first half hour, the only real tension is worrying about how low it might sink." (Read the full review...) 564 words, 01/27/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "It's as dumb as a box of rocks, but it's the cheesy, shameless kind of dumb where everyone seems to be having a good time - except maybe Worthington, who still hasn't learned how to enjoy himself in an action role." (Read the full review...) 240 words, 01/26/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "...preposterous... has its diverting moments, but by the time it has reached its too-pat final twist, it turns out to be a title desperately in search of a movie." (Read the full review...) 357 words, 01/27/12 Barbara Vancheri, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "To fully enjoy 'Man on a Ledge,' you should take your critical faculties and lock them in one of those little hotel safes." (Read the full review...) 578 words, 01/27/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "The best one can say of the screenplay by Pablo Fenjves is that it's less implausible than his earlier work as a staffer on the National Enquirer and ghostwriter of O.J. Simpson's notorious memoir 'If I Did It.' I am not making this up." (Read the full review...) 434 words, 01/27/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "Don't blame Sam Worthington, who tries gamely to bring life to the title character. Elizabeth Banks is in there swinging, as well. Nice efforts, but they're let down by a script that can't support its own far-fetched ideas." (Read the full review...) 448 words, 01/27/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: WEAK (cg) "The movie has a kind of outsize desperation. All it wants to do is wow us.... it's the greasiest entertainment. You're not going to the movies, really. You're pulling up to the drive-thru." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 01/27/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "...one of the few movies that, with its skyscraper action scenes, probably needed to be made in 3-D. As it is, though, it's barely in 2-D -- and really, I'm not sure it needed to be made at all." (Read the full review...) 504 words, 01/27/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...doesn't aim high, but what it aims to do, it does. It grabs the audience's attention, engages its anxieties, stokes its resentments and, at the finish, sends people out saying, 'That was good.' " (Read the full review...) 513 words, 01/27/12 Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: POOR (cg) "...the story's resolution and a final scene are so steeped in implausibility (and featuring a joke marred by ethical hypocrisy) as to see this movie fall, as if from a great height, into extreme silliness." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 01/27/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...when, as in the mindless 'Man on a Ledge,' the hero is never really in danger, we're the ones who are trapped." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 01/27/12 Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times: FAIR (cg) "We are asked to settle for an easy heist and yet another solution in which the person helping most is someone to be trusted least. After an hour of this malarkey, you're tempted to ask if there's room for one more on that ledge." (Read the full review...) 394 words, 01/26/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a movie for those who like their vertigo straight up.... delivers the sweats it intends to deliver." (Read the full review...) 495 words, 01/27/12 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: POOR (cg) "I couldn't have cared less whether or not Nick made it through the movie alive.... 'Man on a Ledge' just made me think of an old Van Halen song: 'Jump.' " (Read the full review...) 567 words, 01/27/12
Brian Miller, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...this film doesn't realize it's a comedy.... There are nods to Occupy Wall Street and 'Dog Day Afternoon,' but the whole thing plays like random outtakes from 'Law & Order.' You keep waiting for Chris Noth to wander onto the scene." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 01/25/12 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "...an asinine, poor excuse for entertainment.... I'm sure 'Man on a Ledge' sounded interesting when it was first pitched, but the result is garbage." (Read the full review...) 725 words, 01/29/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "[Screenwriter Pablo] Fenjves interweaves his story lines with skill, disclosing plot points deftly enough to make them seem plausible, and injecting enough topical subtext to give the hijinks an edge." (Read the full review...) 148 words, 01/26/12 Scott Tobias, AV Club: WEAK (cg) "...the film really lives or dies on the integrity of its plot mechanics, with nary a theme to subvert or exploit. And to that end, it winds up as a calamitous heap of mangled gears, snapped levers, and rusty springs." (Read the full review...) 406 words, 01/26/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (cg) " 'Man on a Ledge' is on shaky footing when it comes to plausibility. But it believes so strongly in its own preposterousness that it almost - almost - gets us to make the leap." (Read the full review...) 996 words, 01/26/12 Jaime N. Christley, Slant: POOR (cg) "...looks strangely outdated... a hot mess of the highest order, taking some of the stalest chestnuts in the long, venerated legacy of the framed-cop-trying-to-clear-his-name genre and somehow fucking it up..." (Read the full review...) 605 words, 01/25/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "It's as dumb as a box of rocks, but it's the cheesy, shameless kind of dumb where everyone seems to be having a good time - except maybe Worthington, who still hasn't learned how to enjoy himself in an action role." (Read the full review...) 240 words, 01/26/12 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "Danish director Asger Leth builds suspense in the heist scenes, but doesn't capture the Big Apple's colorful character, so everything feels overcooked and slightly phony." (Read the full review...) 506 words, 01/27/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "I don't care if he jumps or not.... most of the rest of what's going on is so absurdly preposterous that by the time you find out the reasons for all the ridiculousness, it's even worse than before you knew." (Read the full review...) 822 words, 02/03/12
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...manages to both amuse and provoke... [a] wryly twisted caper film.... There is a lot to forgive... But there are deft touches, too..." (Read the full review...) 821 words, 01/27/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "...any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter.... Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness." (Read the full review...) 461 words, 01/27/12 Andrew Lapin, NPR: FAIR "...the film aims for Hitchcock and gets a bit turned around; we're The Audience That Knew Too Much.... it's hard not to wonder what 'Man on a Ledge' could have been with just a little more restraint." (Read the full review...) 641 words, 01/26/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "[Director Asger] 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." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 01/27/12
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: WEAK "...cloddishly contrived... too busy to bore, but too farfetched to thrill, combining routine heist-thriller machinations with dialogue that often thuds like a body hitting asphalt.... an eye-rolling obviousness persists in all aspects of narrative, character and dialogue..." (Read the full review...) 513 words, 01/23/12 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "...never finds a firm footing.... it's in the execution that this would-be thriller falls flat. There's never the feeling that wronged cop Sam Worthington is in any real danger... isn't a complete letdown, thanks mainly to a colorful cast that has its energetic way with the B-movie dialogue..." (Read the full review...) 511 words, 01/23/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "[Director Asger] 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." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 01/27/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "Unoriginal cinematography by Paul Cameron, including some of those passé aerial shots looking down on Manhattan edifices, and a hackneyed score by Henry Jackman are further signs that this film is shooting for 'serviceable' and not much more." (Read the full review...) 571 words, 01/27/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "...any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter.... Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness." (Read the full review...) 461 words, 01/27/12 John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...manages to both amuse and provoke... [a] wryly twisted caper film.... There is a lot to forgive... But there are deft touches, too..." (Read the full review...) 821 words, 01/27/12
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