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Man on a Ledge - review

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A desperate man steps on to a high-up ledge of a hotel and, as crowds assemble below, threatens to throw himself off. Sam Worthington's desperate Nick, however, is not quite what he seems.

He is actually an ex-policeman, wrongly convicted for a jewel theft, who has escaped from clink and linked up with his brother (Jamie Bell) as a decoy to fool the cops while engineering an elaborate heist which might just clear his name.

That's the plot of Asger Leth's watchable but increasingly improbable thriller, which has Elizabeth Banks as a suicide negotiator who begins to smell a rat and a sepulchral-looking Ed Harris as the rich and vile property developer who framed him. There's a professional slickness about the proceedings and it entertains for most of the time.

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