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“Any longer out on that road, and I’m one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I’ve got this bronze badge that says that I’m one of the good guys.” Name Mel’s movie character.

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Mel Gibson, the once golden leading man of cinematic violence, has been missing from cinema screens for almost a decade, during which time he had his very public breakdown. After another directing stint with Apocalypto, Gibson finally returns to the front of camera and is immediately back in familiar territory.

Edge of Darkness is sent in the same vein as Payback, dark, violent and compelling to the end. Revenge is a dominant theme in the film and the role of Thomas Craven, a veteran Boston homicide detective who goes rogue in order to hunt down the men responsible for his daughter’s murder, is right in his Gibson’s comfort zone. But even though Gibson is at the top of his game in Edge of Darkness, the film’s “renegade cop” bit would still feel stale if not being handled by a first class film making team, who manage to make even the most conventional of concepts can be made fresh and interesting again.

Nonetheless, the notion of seeing Gibson’s face in an actual movie, and not in the pages of some tabloid, is pretty strange at first, and that could be the reason for the bloody murder of Craven’s daughter. The grisly scene shifts our focus from Mel as tabloid curiosity to Mel as angry, grieving father in sudden and dramatic fashion.

And Mel’s a powerhouse machine as angry, grieving fathers, his weathered and weary face seething with barely-contained rage as he stalks his daughter’s assailants with grim, unwavering determination. The trail lands him waist-deep in a fascinatingly complex conspiracy involving secret nuclear stockpiles, shady defense contractors, duplicitous government bureaucrats, effete senators, and corrupt cops. And while none of those things matter much to Gibson’s character, who simply wants to batter bloody sense out of everyone who dares stand between him and his devastating vengeance, they’re crucial to us, keeping us riveted to our seats throughout this taut, pulse-pounding thriller.

Like Robert Downey Jr. since his brush with the law, it seems that time away from the glamour and lights of Hollywood has brought America’s leading vigilante back to where he belongs.

Source: Anthony Lund of News Blaze

After explaining his on-air insult to a Chicago reporter earlier this week as being a remark meant for his publicist, Gibson has addressed the topic while in France on his Edge of Darkness promotional tour. (Here he is with Oksana Grigorieva at last night’s premiere in Paris.)

While doing an interview on Wednesday, a journalist asked Mel, “Did you come prepared with French curse words for French journalists?”

“Non!” replied Gibson, adding, “I mean no. It usually comes out in English if I’m angry. I have a short fuse. I’m trying to work on it.”

Source: USA Today

Mel Gibson says an on-air insult this week was directed at his publicist, not a WGN reporter.

In a text message to KTLA’s Sam Rubin Wednesday, Gibson said his publicist was making faces at him off-camera, and the actor didn’t realize he was still on air when he called him an “a**hole.”

The flub was caught on camera during an interview between Gibson and WGN reporter Dean Richards about the actor’s new movie Edge of Darnkness.

Richards, like many other reporters, asked Gibson whether his audience will forgive him for his 2006 drunken outburst and anti-semitic remarks. Gibson was visibly displeased and responded with, “That’s almost four years ago, dude. I mean, I’ve moved on. I guess you haven’t.”

Gibson then requested Richards to move on, which he did and quickly wrapped up the interview. Gibson can then be heard saying, “a**hole” after sipping his coffee.

It was a situation eerily similar to a recent interview between Gibson and KTLA’s Sam Rubin.

The interview took a turn for the worse when Sam suggested some fans may be reluctant to welcome Gibson back to the big screen.

“I gather you have a dog in this fight?,” Gibson asked Sam, who is Jewish, regarding his anti-semitic remarks years ago.

The uncomfortable interview ended, and Gibson later apologized profusely to Sam during a private, off-camera meeting.

Source: KTLA

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Thanks to Zimbio, I’ve uploaded photos of Mel at the Australians In Film screening of ‘Edge’ and the Los Angeles premiere. Thanks to Just Jared, I’ve uploaded Mel at the Madrid premiere. Enjoy!

Is the world ready to forgive Mel Gibson?

Eight years ago, when Gibson rode high on the success of Signs, that question would have seemed laughable. “Forgive Mel for what? Making millions at the box office? Landing on People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ list? What, already?

Plenty of water has rushed under Mad Mel’s bridge since then: divorce, scandal, boozy run-ins with the law and an infamous tabloid tirade.

Now in Edge of Darkness, his first starring role since Signs, Gibson isn’t merely a cop out for payback. He’s a tarnished Hollywood icon out to redeem his career.

To my mind, at least, Mad Mel succeeds.

This craggy 54-year-old actor that we see in Edge of Darkness may be far removed from the heartthrob that ignited Gallipoli or The Year of Living Dangerously… Nevertheless, I say welcome to Mel’s new hell.

Based on the acclaimed 1985 British miniseries created by Troy Kennedy Martin, Gibson plays Tom Craven, a clean Boston homicide cop with nothing to lose after his only child (Bojana Novakovic) is gunned down on their front porch.

“Craven!” a hooded goon yells out from the darkness. And bang!

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Never one to shy away from voicing his opinion, actor Mel Gibson has declared that he doesn’t believe President Obama has the means necessary to “fix” the United States.

“[Obama] is a man with an impossible task on his hands,” Gibson told Pop Tarts at the Hollywood premiere of his latest drama thriller Edge of Darkness on Tuesday night. “He got left a mess and I wish him all the best but I don’t think he’s going to fix it in five minutes and probably not in his entire tenure.”

Gibson’s thoughts come as no surprise, as his new film explores the dark side of politics. He stars as homicide detective Thomas Craven, who is embroiled in an investigation into the murder of his activist daughter. In the process, Craven uncovers a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.

“It picks the scab off the governmental, corporate paranoia – the under the table workings that happen,” Gibson explained. “I think we’ve lost our naiveté, I don’t think we have any pretension that what most of our leaders are doing is leading us to the slaughterhouse.”

And with all the headline news Gibson has made over the past few years with various trials and tribulations in his personal life, it is hard to believe it has been seven years since he actually took on a major film role, the last being Signs in 2002.

“I just wanted to come back and that was just the best piece of material that crossed my hands” he said.

And although the controversial actor has a reputation in the industry for being an on-set prankster, he got a taste of his own medicine this time around while working with fellow Australian, Bojana Novakovic, who played his daughter.

“I pranked him, I pretended that I was a seamstress on the first day and I went up to him as the seamstress until he realized who I was,” Novakovic said. “He was still very nice to me [as] the seamstress, but I wanted him to play a prank on me after that but he never did. I think it might be coming. He said ‘watch your back’ and it comes when you least expect it so I was watching my back the entire shoot.”

Source: FOX News

Can there be redemption for Mel Gibson, four years after his drunken tirade made headlines all over the world?

He’s done his mea culpa, disappeared for four years — in fact it’s nearly eight years since he starred in Signs — and he’s playing to his strengths in this comeback vehicle, a conspiracy thriller with a vigilante kick.

This is the Mel Gibson we always loved: mad as hell and back on the warpath. Let’s not forget, he became a star playing a homicidal cop — three films as Mad Max, and four more as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon movies — and here he goes again, playing a bereaved Boston police detective, Thomas Craven, tracking down his daughter’s assassins.

Who does he think he is, some sleazy lawyer wants to know? The shyster must be the only one who hasn’t figured it out: “A cop with nothing to lose who doesn’t give a [bleep].”

You would be ticked too, if your grown daughter came home, threw up on your dinner table and died in a shotgun blast before she had a chance to explain herself. At first Craven and his colleagues assume he must have been the target, but when he finds a revolver among her possessions the grieving father begins to wonder. That, and the Geiger counter.

This is your Cold War paranoia thriller, adapted and updated from a first-rate BBC miniseries by William Monahan (The Departed) and Andrew Bovell (Lantana), and directed by Martin Campbell — who also directed the original series some quarter century ago.

The pedigree is impressive but the movie is a diminishment across the board. As with the recent film version of “State of Play,” the compression of six hours into two has boiled the narrative down to base clichés, stripped out the complexity and simplified the character arc while retaining an earnest, self-important tone that’s no longer called for.

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Edge of Darkness is a revenge thriller ripped from today’s headlines. Well, ripped from the headlines of 25 years ago, anyway, back around the time when movies like Silkwood and The China Syndrome were mopping up Oscar nominations with their fact-based indictments of the nasty nuclear-energy industry.

The original Edge of Darkness was a 1985 BBC-TV miniseries whose director, Martin Campbell, has now turned it into a feature film, relocating the story to Boston. But Karen Silkwood was a real person, and The China Syndrome echoed the near-meltdown in the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. Edge of Darkness has no such real-world roots, and so its concern with a sinister nuclear-research corporation and the brave young anti-nuke activists determined to blow the whistle on it feels stale and dated. It’s a movie whose time has passed.

The picture also manages to waste the star power of Mel Gibson, here returning to the screen in his first lead role in seven years. Gibson plays Tom Craven, a glum Boston homicide detective whose only apparent joy in life, apart from knocking back an occasional ginger ale, is his daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic), now 24 and employed as a researcher at the aforementioned sinister corporation, an outfit called Northmoor. Craven is elated when Emma comes home for a visit — until he and his daughter step out the front door one night and a waiting hit man shoots her dead. Tom’s fellow cops figure he was the real target, but the veteran investigator isn’t so sure — especially after he goes through Emma’s belongings and finds a gun and a small Geiger counter.

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