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- 1984
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1984
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Summary He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
Directed By: John Byrum
Written By: W. Somerset Maugham, Bill Murray, John Byrum
- 1984
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1984
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
The Razor's Edge
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Summary He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
Directed By: John Byrum
Written By: W. Somerset Maugham, Bill Murray, John Byrum
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Metascore
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Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
47
22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Razor's Edge never quite reaches its destination but there are all manner of minor pleasures to be gleaned along the way.
At the end I didn't feel engaged. I didn't feel that the hero's attention had been quite focused during his quest for the meaning of life. He didn't seem to be a searcher, but more of a bystander, shoulders thrown back, deadpan expression in place, waiting to see if life could make him care.
Murray and director John Byrum, who cowrote the screenplay, saved the dramatic tension for last and least. Till then, the villain is Life. And that doesn't cut it when you're talking epic saga. [19 Oct 1984, p.21]
Tonally inconsistent and structurally awkward, film does develop some dramatic interest in the second half, but inherent power of the material is never realized.
The Razor's Edge gives us the quintessential '80s sensibility, Bill Murray, indulging a nostalgia for the '60s masquerading as the '20s. An adaptation of the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, this longtime pet project of Murray's will only disappoint his many fans.
Slow, overlong and ridiculously overproduced.
Two things are going on in The Razor's Edge, the second movie adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel. One is that Bill Murray, the comedian, is trying a dramatic role for the first time. Another is that people out in the seats are being bored to tears. [19 Oct 1984, p.D1]
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Colgems Productions Ltd.,
Marcucci-Cohen-Benn Production
Release Date Oct 19, 1984
Duration 2 h 8 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline A thin line separates love from hate, success from failure, life from death, a line as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
