The Edge **** (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson) – Classic Movie Review 1031

Director Lee Tamahori’s 1997 adventure offers Anthony Hopkins a chance he eagerly grabs to enjoy has a field day as an endlessly resourceful billionaire who suffers a plane crash and has to survive the Alaskan wilderness, a blood-thirsty man-eating Kodiak bear called Bart and Alec Baldwin’s bid to kill him for his loot and model wife (Elle Macpherson).

Lee Tamahori (director of Once Were Warriors) turns this inspiring tale into a nail-bitingly thrilling survival epic with a cleverly written, witty script from David Mamet, breathtaking scenery, and an unbroken chain of unbearable tension.

Bart nearly steals the show and Baldwin gives a rousing account of villainy, but show-stopping Hopkins makes sure he vanquishes all-comers. The Edge is where you’ll be sitting on your seat for this first-class thinking person’s adventure movie.

Tamahori is also the director of Once Were Warriors, Mulholland Falls, Along Came a Spider, Die Another Day, xXx²: The Next Level.

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