on aggregate reviewer rotten tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on 203 reviews; the average rating is 5.3/10. the site's critical consensus reads, "for better and for worse, "edge of darkness" offers vintage mel gibson, working within the familiar framework of a bloody revenge thriller." on review aggretator, metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 1–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 55 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally mixed or average reviews".