Hollywood is perpetually dredging for ideas. Last week it was comic book heroes, this week it's old BBC TV series. The BBC Series Edge of Darkness was an original, quirky and inspired drama that is still worth watching nearly three decades later. The casting was superb, the script for the most part tight, and the performances truly memorable. This film, which basically borrows the title and a few names from the BBC original, is silly, lightweight, badly written and poorly acted. Instead of a complex political drama we have John Wayne meets West Wing. There's really nothing much of merit in this film - it's a tired old "one man against the world" schtick and frankly we've been there, done that, and moved on a long time ago. So please, by all means acquire the BBC original but give this tired old movie a miss.