![]() ![]() Could this all be anĮlaborate frame job, or did Jack really have the nerve to murder his wife in cold blood? That's the question that sits at the center of JaggedĮdge, and Eszterhas gives us ample evidence to support either conclusion. That Krasny has it out for the newspaperman, who has been writing harsh editorials about the D.A.'s prospective senate run. While there is the seemingly damning evidence that Jack is the sole beneficiary of his dead wife's massive estate, we also get the sense Husband Jack (Jeff Bridges)-a newspaper editor who looks genuinely distraught over his wife's death-but there are some legitimate doubts about Hotshot district attorney Thomas Krasny (Peter Coyote) immediately arrests the key suspect, Paige's When the police arrive on the Manson Murders-style scene, the word "bitch" is scrawled in crude,īloody letters on the wall behind Paige's body. Hunting knife that features, yes, a jagged edge. The film opens on a dark and stormy night-you can practically hear Eszterhas' fingers tapping on the typewriter keys-as a masked, dressed-in-īlack intruder creeps into wealthy socialite Paige Forrester's beach house bedroom, ties her to the bedpost, and then savagely murders her with a Besides, it says something about the quality of the filmmaking that Jagged Edge is still entertaining Interesting than the destination scenarios. Twist long before the Scooby-Doo-like reveal-where the murderer is literally unmasked-but this is one of those the journey is more The film isn't a masterpiece of its genre, but it is solidly constructed, and it keeps you guessing about the identity of the killer until the finalįrames, even though you know there's only one option that's dramatically substantive enough to really work. ![]() Perhaps the best of these is Jagged Edge, a taut whodunit-meets-courtroom thriller that hints at the pulpy erotic direction his later scripts Reviewed by Casey Broadwater, May 24, 2011īefore Basic Instinct, which turned him into one of the highest paid screenwriters in Hollywood, and Showgirls, which subsequentlyĬemented his reputation as an overpaid hack, Joe Eszterhas penned or co-wrote a handful of marginally successful movies throughout the 1980s. ![]() A straightforward whodunit bolstered by fine performances. ![]()
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