Director M Night Shyamalan’s 1999 breakthrough The Sixth Sense has proven to be quite the double-edged sword. A near-perfect, intelligent genre film, with one of the most notable endings in modern cinema, Shyamalan’s third feature sent him soaring into the A-list and opened the door to seemingly endless opportunity.
British television dramas are proving to be fertile breeding ground for Hollywood execs as, following the success of Kevin Macdonald’s big screen adaptation of State of Play, Casino Royale director Martin Campbell breathes new life into the 1985 mini-series Edge of Darkness. And, with a solid performance from Mel Gibson at its heart, it proves to be a successful, if fairly straightforward, Americanised thriller.
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