After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
The biggest fault of Jagged Edge is that whatever suspense it manages to generate in its climactic scenes is achieved artificially, through tricky editing and manipulative ''danger'' music.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
12 Jun 2013
fresh:
A well-crafted, hardboiled mystery.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
11 Feb 2008
rotten:
The wholesome cast completely obliterates the unstated perversities that have been this genre's reason for being.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
11 Feb 2008
rotten:
The screenplay, by Joe Eszterhas, does what it can to throw up a smokescreen, but the audience will probably be well ahead of the story's final resolution.