Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

MattyGibbs Jagged Edge is a glossy 1980's courtroom thriller about a man accused of murdering his wife. The lawyer he hires falls in love with him as she tries to clear him of murder. It is a simple plot and much of the enjoyment comes from trying to guess whether the husband is guilty or not. Both the leads Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close put in good performances especially Bridges who is all charm without ever seeming too innocent. Peter Coyote adds excellent support as the prosecuting lawyer. There are a few negatives, the courtroom scenes all seem a bit clichéd, clumsy and predictable and at times in the middle the film does lose momentum however the last half an hour is engrossing and pulls it back.I found Jagged Edge to be an entertaining thriller with a good pay off. Well worth watching.

Raul Faust Movies which people try everything to find out who is the real killer are usually interesting. Nowadays they are all very predictable, but "Jagged Edge" isn't. It's a good movie in showing aspects of the professions of lawyer and prosecutor; I work for a local judge, and I can understand why Teddy wanted to leave this area so bad. Working with people's destiny is hard to our conscience and requires much responsibility. Maybe teaching in a law school is much less stressful. It's interesting to notice how good the acting used to be in 80's; the whole cast is very professional and I can't see one scene they're overacting. Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close steal the show and were probably very rewarded back when this film was released. It is also interesting to notice how they could live without a computer-- how on Earth would Teddy discover he was the killer if there wasn't the writing machine? To sum it up, "Jagged Edge" is a great and entertaining mystery thriller, do not miss it!

zetes Stupid courtroom thriller written by the master-hackster, Joe Eszterhaus. I probably should have shut it off as soon as I saw his name on the project. And the fact that it is a courtroom thriller doesn't help, as that's a genre I don't usually abide. It was directed by the guy who did Return of the Jedi. Jeff Bridges stars as a man suspected of murdering his wife. He hires Glenn Close to defend him in court. Both give what are among their worst performances. Less terrible are Peter Coyote as the prosecuting attorney (and apparently lead investigator? It's all very confusing) and Robert Loggia as Close's favorite private investigator. Loggia received an Oscar nomination for his work. He's the best part of the film, but he's barely in it. One wonders why we didn't follow Loggia on more of his investigations. Usually, he just shows up at Close's house or in the middle of court to tell her what he's found. The courtroom stuff is some of the worst ever done in a film. Eszterhaus has no idea how court works. I'm not an expert, either, but I know enough to say that everything that happens in this movie is utter crap. Honestly, the case against Bridges is so flimsy that it would never have come to court in the first place. There's a big twist by the film's end which is pretty obvious and entirely moronic. This is very much in line with Eszterhaus' later masterpieces Basic Instinct and Showgirls, but it's even dumber than those. Avoid at all costs.

Michael Neumann Once past the lurid sex murder in the opening scene you'll find a fairly absorbing (but, in retrospect, hardly memorable) legal drama, with crack attorney Glenn Close defending newspaper publisher Jeff Bridges (who may or may not be innocent) against unscrupulous DA Peter Coyote. The scenario holds together well enough despite some not unexpected shortcomings (awkward domestic melodrama and a color-by-numbers romance), but the resolution is secondhand Hitchcock and curiously anticlimactic. Nothing profound here, just taut, unsophisticated entertainment, with a San Francisco Bay Area background put to good use.