A strange and exciting story about a former policeman's attempt to threaten to jump from the top of the Manhattan hotel and endanger himself. Following the response of the nearest New York police officer through the scream of that woman and numerous calls, more officers arrived with SWAT and tactical command along with firefighters to rescue the police officer. In the end, the police sent a psychiatrist to talk to him, but nothing changed.
As befitting the blunt dullness of the title, it manages the neat trick of being curiously watchable without ever crossing the line into remotely interesting.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 31, 2012
The solution to "now what do we do for 103 minutes?" is to pile as many silly distractions into the running time as possible.
"Man on a Ledge" is not a film that will change the way we look at thrillers, but it is a film that has enough thrills to provide for a very entertaining ride
This is one of the few movies that, with its skyscraper action scenes, probably needed to be made in 3-D. As it is, though, it's barely in 2-D - and really, I'm not sure it needed to be made at all.
