The Ledge (2011) 7/10

Starring : Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard
Director : Matthew Chapman
Running Time : 101 mins

Detective Hollis Lucetti (Howard) is called in to talk down Gavin Nicholls (Hunnam), a man attempting to jump from a building. As he tries to persuade him not to jump, Lucetti is told the reasons behind Nicholls suicide attempt – he is being blackmailed into killing himself to save someone else’s life.

It's probably the climax of the movie that makes it so interesting. This pits religious fanaticism against stubborn atheism in a most unusual way. By threatening Hunnam, Wilson tries to prove that his religious beliefs are stronger than Hunnam’s belief in his love for Tyler, but what transpires forces the viewer to question who is right; the man who believes in an afterlife or the man who is willing to leave this life to save a loved one. Some interesting thoughts can be found here, but a lot of the execution is a little one-sided.

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