Hard Edge

9/24/2015

Hard Edge” is a wannabe survival drama set in cozy rural England that mostly fires blanks. Second low-budget feature from young Brit director Caleb Lindsay, who bowed three years ago with the slight but promising Gen-X dramatic comedy “Chasing Dreams,” is torpedoed by blah dialogue and largely collegiate playing. Tightening by some 10 minutes could make this privately funded item a passable vid entry for undiscriminating couch potatoes. Prime candidate for shearing is an awkward six-minute pre-credit sequence of the two leads, bearded John (Luke Shaw) and balding Ben (Simon Bateso), fooling around in their London office. The repartee marginally improves as the two guys drive through rural southern England to a survival-games weekend, where they immediately get on the wrong side of the p