Edison Poster
Now, we encounter Justin Timberlake again, but this time amongst an impressive
cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J, Dylan McDermott,
John Heard and Cary Elwes. In the cop drama-thriller Edison,
Timberlake goes toe to toe with the big boys.
Edison Movie Trailer
The growing metropolis of Edison seems to holds promise for all, but even young ambitious journalist Josh Pollack (Timberlake) must begin at the bottom. Though he'd rather launch his career as an investigative reporter at the Times, instead he's reduced to writing police blotter squibs at the Heights Herald, a community rag better known for its coupons. When Pollack perceives police fraud, however, his desire to expose it runs up against his boss, Moses Ashford (Freeman), a prize-winning photojournalist now content to please local advertisers. Ashford, who once documented the bloodiest melees three decades ago in Cambodia, no longer has the stomach for combat, neither can he stand a young reporter's laziness. Ashford fires Pollack, which does little to quell his intent to write the story.
Its subject is Edison's most elite police unit, FRAT (First Response Assault & Tactical), a SWAT brigade on steroids. Its members have every tool imaginable from M-11s and Glock .45s to Kevlar body armor – as well as their own exclusive strip club. Pollack's focus, however, is a brief moment of complicity in the courthouse between an alleged coke dealer and the arresting officer Raphael Deed (LL Cool J), whose attempt to stay on the high road does not sit well with his partner, Sgt. Francis Lazerov (McDermott). The quintessential rogue cop, Lazerov led the late-night raid that nabbed the dealer, but this was never supposed to be a routine bust. Truth is, FRAT only wanted the cash and the coke. After threats of turning them in to the Feds, one dealer is dead, his fearful lackey in the pen.
Pollack, taking up Ashford's challenge to do the dirty work, visits the frightened inmate to extract the truth, then works hard to corroborate his story in an effort worthy of Sisyphus. Lazerov is steeled as a wolf (indeed, he keeps a wolf's head as a symbol of strength), but Deed seems penetrable, a man struggling with his conscience, as well as his future. FRAT has always been a single-guy's club and Deed ponders proposing to his girlfriend, settling down, perhaps going into his father-in-law's plumbing trade. Afflicted with pneumatic headaches, he has a new one throbbing inside his skull: cover up the incident to protect FRAT and the city of Edison, or expose the unit's lawless excesses and destroy his career and everything else?
Though Edison is getting held up by an
undisclosed release date, the trailer for the film looks surprisingly impressive.
Dylan McDermott and Kevin Spacey [with hair] look extremely cool as a fraction
of the corrupt precinct. LL Cool J reminds me a lot of his character from
SWAT, but he doesn't look as cocky in this one. Morgan Freeman,
being Morgan Freeman, will most likely rock what looks to be a smaller role
to the best of his ability; which is saying a lot.
To watch the trailer for Edison, head over to the official
site.
Edison will have a release date some time
in 2006.
For more movie info, go to the Edison
Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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