Review: ‘Man’ is convoluted

(EW.com) — For a film with such a candid title, “Man on a Ledge” turns out to be remarkably convoluted.

Poised precipitously atop a high-concept premise, Sam Worthington is an transient crook attempting to infer his ignorance in a many elaborate approach possible: He climbs out onto a hotel edge and creates a self-murder spectacle/diversion that allows his hermit (Jamie Bell) to take a solid from an biased genuine estate nobleman played with a incessant glower by Ed Harris.

It’s all evidently partial of a master plan, as is his requesting Elizabeth Banks‘ beleaguered negotiator, though it feels as if a filmmakers have attempted to things a plots of too many opposite cinema into a singular surrounding that’s already superfluous with eye-rolling improbabilities.

Despite a occasional reticent fun — generally with a heist portions — a jump of proof compulsory to make it all work is adequate to leave your mind pancaked on a sidewalk. C

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