Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Man On A Ledge is watchable, but it could have been so much better, the Trivia says that Amy Adams was considered for the role as the negotiator - they should have called her agent! The actress who plays the negotiator isn't very good, maybe i'm being biased because i just don't like the actress, i don't like the way she talks in general, her character speaks to the guy like he's a child, she's one of the most weakest negotiators in the history of film and what is with the advice to "Visualise something positive" (he isn't an 11 year old getting bullied at school, he's on a damn ledge!) and her big hair doesn't help either, at least try to look a little bit professional and tie your hair back, they should have got Jodie Foster, Maggie Q or anyone else to play the negotiator, it would have been a much more entertaining film.The performances from the other actors are okay, the younger brother and the girlfriend are a clever couple of characters, however the writers or better still the editor could have excluded some of the dialogue (example the dialogue about her ex-lovers, is that even necessary to the movie whatsoever? the film is not even about them as a couple, it isn't a relationship comedy/drama, that piece of dialogue is pointless).Ed Harris is good in his supporting role, but he looks very ill and scrawny, last time i watched him was in the movie "Stepmom" he still looked old back then, but he didn't look sick.The plot is interesting, the film score is okay, nothing special, the cinematic colour theme compliments the movie and the New York scenery is very nice, some scenes are overwhelmingly shocking and that is when the main male character is jumping from roof to roof and roof to floor.The plot can get confusing, so watch it more than once if you don't get it, follow the film closely and you'll have your answers, i had to watch this flick more than once because the plot isn't straight forward and is very subtle at times.The plot is actually rare, so that is one thing unique about this motion picture.The song at the very end credits is awful, if you listen to the lyrics it's understandable why they used this song, but it's still terrible, a Kanye West track would've sounded better than this stale piece of music.

*Minor Spoilers Ahead* A relatively young man enters a nice hotel and checks in. He orders breakfast, tips the doorman, scribbles some notes down on a napkin and then decides to step out onto the ledge. He is quickly spotted by someone on the ground and the cops arrive. When they make their way up Jack Dougherty (Ed Burns) is initially in charge of the scene. He sticks his head out the window to initiate the negotiation but the man refuses to calm down or leave the ledge but he specifically asks for Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks) and he won't talk to anyone else. Why would he do that? Who is this man? Is this a serious suicide attempt or is something else the endgame here? The critics of this film have said that the film is just too hopelessly stupid and has too many plot holes to overcome mediocrity. The defenders of this film have insisted that this is a B movie thriller and it hits the mark that it's trying to achieve. Nobody is claiming this to be an Oscar calibre picture. I'll get the negatives out of the way first. The real weakness of this movie is the fact that the heist is so implausible and one can find the holes just by glancing too long at it. Angie and Joey's professions are never divulged but they are able to come up with solutions on the spot that secret agents would have trouble with. These are supposed to be blue collar people! I'm sorry but Man on a Ledge hearkens back to Tower Heist on being just a little too slack when the heist is going down. This security system that is guarding the David's stuff would be way too advanced for an ex-cop and a couple of rookie thieves to bypass. There are other points where the plot strains plausibility. The fact that Nick gets clipped by a train and walks away without even a concussion is straight bull. The cast that has been assembled here is mainly of a bunch of actors I like, so with that in my mind, it was one of the factors that intrigued me about the movie. Starting with our protagonist, Sam Worthington gets a lot of grief as an actor. I don't think he's a really good one but he does possess a certain charm and screen presence. I thought he did a pretty good job here, he sells a lot of the film's bad dialogue and I thought there was some pretty decent bantering between him and Elizabeth Banks. He's not the type of star that would raise the grade on this movie despite its flaws but he's solid enough. The better performances came from the cops. I think Elizabeth Banks is extremely underrated as both a comedic and dramatic actress but I thought she was the best performer here. She holds her accent and she's actually compelling here as the hostage negotiator. I thought Anthony Mackie is good but he's totally undercut by a crappy plot twist. At the start of the movie, he's extremely likable and it just made me sad when he turns on a dime near the climax. I would also credit Jaime Bell specifically, he's the more interesting of the bandits and he helps bring the humour to a movie that desperately needed some at points. Ed Harris was probably the actor I liked the least. He's playing a heartless billionaire but he's not interesting. He's just a $#!&. There's no dimension to him as a character and even though I think Ed Harris is a good actor he certainly didn't help here. Genesis Rodriguez was weak in this movie. She's playing to stereotypes too hard, they don't give her enough to work with and there doesn't seem to be much to her outside of that. If there was anything else that I can credit the movie for, after the first 30 minutes the movie paced pretty well. It moves along briskly and it's got some pretty solid camera work. Even though I was tripping over the plot holes and some of the bad dialogue, it moved quickly enough and that it kept me interested as it came to its conclusion. I was in a pretty good mood when I watched this but when I try to compare it to other movies though, this is still head and shoulders above Tower Heist. The film manages to coast by on its premise, some decent acting, a quick pace and solid camera work. It has its problems but I would agree that this is an expensive B movie that isn't aiming to be a classic like an Ocean's Eleven. It set its sights much lower and if you can look past the big pile of stupid that sits right in front of it, you could have a good time watching it. It just barely got past the finish line though.

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 "scathing" reviews of this movie are amusing. I don't know what they were expecting but I think this movie does what it says on the package. While it's no great Academy Award winning effort, it most certainly isn't "awful" or "garbage".Ledge is a nice, interesting thriller with a good plot and some great action sequences (and a silly name). The acting is fine. I always enjoy Sam Worthington's under-stated acting and his co-stars were okay, apart from Ed Harris who (as he often does) hammed it up too much and under- mined the suspense a little when he was on screen. The direction is OK but I can't help thinking that in a more experienced director's hands this would have been a lot more suspenseful & thrilling. Nevertheless it's still got enough suspense, interesting characters, thrills, occasional giggles etc to make it a worthwhile watch and an entertaining evening's viewing. Ledge doesn't pretend to be the next best Oscar-winning, deep & meaningful blockbuster. It's a solid basic suspense story with a few twists, lots of clichés (but they work in movies like this!), the inevitable forgivable plot-holes and a happy ending for most of the characters. (NB Incidentally, some of the "plot holes" I've seen people complaining about are not actually "plot holes" at all. They're just bits that are not explained or shown in the movie. For example, there may well have been an internal investigation into the events of the day. But that's not relevant to this story so of course they didn't go into it. No-one cares :))Ledge is not a movie to "make you think" or an exploration of any serious, burning issue in life. It's quite simply a fun flick with lots of pretty to look at, twists to intrigue you and action to entertain. If you watch movies to be entertained rather than to pick them apart then you'll have a great time with this one! :)