While you wait for Season 2 of Castle to air, watch Nathan Fillion in another writer role. The 2003 film “Water’s Edge” starring Nathan Fillion and Chandra West will air on Lifetime at 10pm on Monday June 22.
A young married couple (Nathan Fillion and Chandra West) move to a cabin in thewilderness. This is not a happy getaway. They have lost their daughter, they are broke, theirmarriage is hanging by a thread, and the wife is suicidal. As if they didn’t have enough on theirhands, Fillion comes across a bad scene in the woods: the sheriff about to murder a youngwoman with a rock. Fillion kills the sheriff, rescues the woman, and then the problems reallybegin as nothing is what it…seems and small-town corruption raises its ugly head.
The set-up is terrific, and if the payoff winds up taking us down roads we’ve travelled manytimes before, there are still pleasures to be had along the way. The dialogue is sharp, setting upthe characters with wonderful economy. The tone is spare and understated, but an undercurrentof threat pulses from the opening seconds. Though it may not turn the noir conventions on theirhead, Water’s Edge is still an honourable contribution to the genre. –upcomingdiscs.com
