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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Man on a Ledge doesn't aim high, but what it aims to do, it does. It grabs the audience's attention, engages its anxieties, stokes its resentments and, at the finish, sends people out saying, "That was good."
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60
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Wall Street Journal John Anderson
The ending, for instance, is so ridiculously tidy it squeaks. But en route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie cuts back and forth between two preposterous plot lines and uses the man on the ledge as a device to pump up the tension.
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50
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Entertainment Weekly
Despite the occasional dumb fun - especially with the heist portions - the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk.
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50
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Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
In Man on a Ledge, Leth does well in taking us to dizzying heights. If only he had found a way to ground that thrill in some real pathos as well.
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38
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USA Today Claudia Puig
More often the film succumbs to clichés, grows convoluted and outlandish, and winds up dead on arrival.
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38
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Man on a Ledge has its diverting moments, but by the time it has reached its too-pat final twist, it turns out to be a title desperately in search of a movie.
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38
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
You could cast this movie with potato chips and still get cheers when one of the bad guys is cuffed. It doesn't matter that none of it is to be believed.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The shopworn script by Pablo F. Fenjves, who ghost-wrote the unpublished O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer, gets no help from director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil).
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10
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Rarely has a film exhibited a bigger disconnect between urban realism and utter ludicrousness.
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