We don't have a genre for poor Hollywood remakes of great foreign stuff - perhaps we should - and I strongly recommend that you watch instead the quality 1985 BBC mini-series of the same name from which this detective thriller is adapted. Nevertheless 'Edge of Darkness' the remake works efficiently enough. find out more...
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened Army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
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Fitfully claustrophobic submarine-set chamber drama based less on established historical fact than the conjecture, in Kenneth Sewell's investigative book Red Star Rogue, that in 1968 the Soviets secretly planned to launch a stealth attack on Pearl Harbor in order to spark a nuclear war between China and the USA. The ever-reliable Ed Harris lends much-needed ballast as Demi, the disgraced naval captain whose One Last Job rather predicatably turns into a struggle to save the world from arm find out more...
