Man on a Ledge
- Genre: Thriller
- Director: Asger Leth
- Stars: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks
- Rate: **
An effectively simple premise is ruined by endless convolutions in Man on a Ledge, which casts Sam Worthington as an ex-con who has mysteriously and perilously planted himself on the wrong side of a Manhattan hotel penthouse. Elizabeth Banks is good as the police psychologist assigned to talk him down, but Asger Leth’s stilted, uneven direction fails to effectively balance their tête-à-tâte against the heist-movie machinations that take over in the second half and consign Man on Ledge to forgettable thriller-of-the-week territory.
