Edge | |
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Based on | Edge book series by George G. Gilman |
Written by | Shane Black Fred Dekker |
Directed by | Shane Black |
Starring | Max Martini |
Theme music composer | Brian Tyler |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Shane Black Johnny Dawkins Fred Dekker David Greenblatt Barry Josephson Tony Mark Ellen Stafford |
Cinematography | Dante Spinotti |
Editor | Harry B. Miller III |
Running time | 62 minutes |
Production company | Amazon Studios |
Original release | |
Network | Amazon Video |
Release | November 4, 2015 [1] |
Edge is a 2015 television pilot [2] produced by Amazon Studios. It is a Western set in Kansas based on the Edge book series by George G. Gilman.
Josiah Hedges, also known as Edge, is a half-Mexican hired gunslinger who sets out for vengeance after his younger brother is killed by a group of his former comrades in the Union Army. The group is led by Edge's nemesis, Merritt Harknett, a psychotic sadist who delights in inflicting pain on others and who also seeks something in Edge's possession. [3]
Edge was released as a pilot for a potential TV series but was not picked up by Amazon.
In general, critics appreciated the action and effects of the pilot but were critical of the writing and story.
Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times called the action "well staged" but called the film an uncomfortable combination in which the supposedly realistic brutality "is contradicted by the super-anti-heroic invincibility of its death-dealing central character." [4]
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "an ultraviolent western that starts out with promise but degenerates into gore for gore's sake." He further wrote that the only reason to produce something so over the top "is to appeal to bloodlust" and that "by the pilot's end, it barely matters who is killing whom or why." [5]
Barry Lowry of Variety.com wrote that "too much of the writing misses the bull's-eye." [6]
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