Review of The Ledge (2011) by Kirby P — 12 Jun 2012

SEE THIS MOVIE! Pay no attention to the reviews, especially those of the movie critics, as this film portrays a devout Christian in a bad light and hence you can expect that the faithful will decide it's a bad movie. It is an excellent movie, one that will have you pondering your own choices in life long after the closing credits.

There are a couple of glaring plot flaws, as there seem to be with most Hollywood fare these days. It's as though nobody with any sense of reason or logic ever reviews the script and points out "Uhhh, this isn't plausible." In this film, you could possibly have corrected the biggest plot flaws in the editing room, no reshooting necessary. For example, the cops can't find a guy, but he's carrying a cell phone and they know the number. Apparently it never occurs to them to trace the location of the phone, and if they had, we wouldn't have had a story. But it would have been simple enough to revise the scenario slightly so he don't have a cell phone with him.

Another one is the cop has his own problems, which is fine, but then he ends up explaining his own personal problems to a jumper on a ledge, and his cell phone keeps going off, interrupting efforts to talk the jumper down. That DOESN'T happen; ask anyone who works in law enforcement. It would have been a simple matter to edit a few bits out and have the cop keeping his problems to himself, the jumper never needs to know about them, and I believe the end result would have been even MORE powerful.

And at the end, one character passes through jail and stops just long enough to see another character behind bars. Whassup wit dat? Are we supposed to believe that the hallway leading from police headquarters to the parking lot passes through maximum security? Come on! Edit that garbage out, just show the guy in jail pondering his own decisions in life.