A Girl is Helping Her Boyfriends Brother to Prove His Innocence By Stealing a Precious Diamond
A Girl is Helping Her Boyfriends Brother to Prove His Innocence By Stealing a Precious Diamond
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00:00 Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you an action thriller film from 2012,
00:04 titled "Man on a Ledge". Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.
00:08 Nick Cassidy is an ex-cop and an escaped convict. We see him as he checks into the Roosevelt Hotel
00:13 under the name Joe Walker. The hotel valet leads him into his requested room, he has a nice meal
00:18 and, after, he cleans every trace of himself from the room, apart from a single note. Nick opens the
00:23 window and steps out on the ledge of the hotel, where he will spend a few of the most important
00:26 hours in his life. To find out why he's doing that, we have to go back a month earlier. At the time,
00:32 Nick was in prison and got his final appeal denied by the court. He will have to serve out the
00:35 entirety of his 25-year sentence. His ex-partner Mike Ackerman comes to visit him in prison to tell
00:40 him that his father is dying. He promises to get him a day outside so he can see him. However,
00:45 Nick only gets to go to his funeral. Mike and his fiancée express their condolences to both Nick and
00:50 his brother Joey. His brother's girlfriend Angie leaves them a moment to talk in private.
00:54 The brothers get into an argument and break into a fight that quickly gets split up by Nick's guards,
00:58 giving Nick ample opportunity to steal one of their guns. Once armed, he makes Joey unlock his
01:03 cuffs, impairs the prison guard's vehicle, and escapes in his brother's car. A chase through
01:07 the graveyard with the police ensues, which he manages easily while changing his clothes as well.
01:12 The chase leads them out to some train tracks where he rams his car into a moving train and
01:15 manages to slip away before the cops can get to him. Nick gets to a hideout, where he finds all
01:20 the things he might require, left there by his accomplice. Back at the Roosevelt, the authorities
01:24 are already aware of the situation with Nick and they're shutting down the block. Police and
01:28 emergency vehicles arrive at the site, along with Detective Jack Doherty. He heads straight to the
01:33 room and introduces himself to Nick, saying he's there to help. In the meantime, Detective Dante
01:38 Marcus manages the situation at the base of the hotel where people have already gathered, invested
01:42 in the spectacle. Doherty gives his best first attempt at convincing Nick to come back in,
01:46 but Nick threatens him to get another negotiator or he'll jump. The detective turns back in the
01:50 room, met by Marcus and they take a look at Nick's last note, saying, "I will exit this world as I
01:55 entered, innocent." They still don't know who he is and Marcus wants to print the room to find out
01:59 more about him. Doherty calls the negotiator Lydia Mercer and tells her that they have a jumper who
02:04 has requested her specifically. Marcus's team is already investigating Nick, still thinking that
02:08 he's Joe Walker. When Mercer gets to the hotel, Doherty informs her of the scene and tells her
02:12 that he's about to jump in two minutes. Mercer gives the room a look around, gets a little bit
02:17 more info, and introduces herself to Nick in the last possible second. He tells her that everything
02:21 will change for him today, one way or another and he needs her to understand that he's ready to die
02:25 for that. Mercer is curious why he even brought her there if that's the case, to which he replies
02:30 that it's because she's famous and he needs a crowd. Doherty doesn't trust her and gives her
02:34 five minutes to get her head in the game. Meanwhile, Mike is looking for Nick, completely
02:38 unaware of what is actually happening. He thinks there's something suspicious about Nick's escape,
02:42 so he tells his colleague to check for anything unusual in the communication between the Cassidy
02:46 brothers. At this point, we are introduced to another major player in Nick's life, David
02:51 Englander, the owner of the Roosevelt Hotel. He's a nasty rich guy with his hands on everything in
02:55 the city and no interest in the well-being of others. Doherty informs Mercer that they didn't
02:59 find any prints in the room. She thinks she can trick Nick with a cigarette to get a print but
03:03 fails the first attempt. Mercer implies knowing that Nick isn't on the ledge just to end his life,
03:08 but to make some sort of statement. She tells him that, unlike the crowd on the street,
03:12 she actually cares. Suddenly, Joey calls Nick to tell him that they arrived. Nick tries to
03:16 mess with Mercer's head to get her away so he can talk to his brother without her realizing it.
03:20 Joey and Angie are part of Nick's rouse. The media gets in on the spectacle too and they report on
03:25 Mercer's involvement in the case, dragging up an incident from a month ago when she couldn't
03:29 persuade an officer not to jump from a bridge. She didn't take that incident lightly. Doherty and
03:33 Mercer are suspicious about the lack of information they have on Nick, so Doherty will try to find
03:37 something and she can focus on Nick. Simultaneously, he's talking to Joey while he and Angie are
03:42 breaking into one of Englander's many properties, just on the other side of the hotel where Nick is
03:46 standing. As the security system is being disarmed for the night shift, Joey and Angie drill holes on
03:51 the roof of the place, setting up an explosive device. They signal Nick and he makes a fuss to
03:55 distract Mercer and the crowd down below as they activate the explosive. Joey and Angie enter the
04:00 property while Nick continues to fool Mercer. He asks for a cigarette and she shares her last one
04:04 with him. Nick knows a lot about Mercer's carrier and tells her that it's because they have a lot
04:08 in common. She doesn't think that he wants to jump and he tells her not to give up on him.
04:12 When she pulls back into the room she hands the cigarette to an officer so they can get a print
04:16 from it. Joey informs Nick that they've entered the building. In the meantime, Mike gets back to
04:20 the station and learns about the jumper, but not who he is. Mercer gives another shot at persuading
04:25 Nick to come back inside, when a noose helicopter flies dangerously close to them, almost pushing
04:29 Nick over the ledge. Mike finally sees it's him on the news feed. He gets a call about a storage
04:34 unit in Joey's name. Joey and Angie lower down the elevator shaft in Englander's building.
04:39 He takes care of the security cameras and they move toward Englander's vault room.
04:43 Angie notices a sensor inside and they back up so they don't activate it.
04:46 Doherty and Mercer realize that Nick is waiting for something and she needs him to speed up his
04:50 ID. Mercer comes back out and asks Nick what's really going on. He gives her some kind of
04:55 armchair psychology answer. She tries another approach when Joey begins talking in his ear again.
05:00 Since Nick can't answer him directly, he uses his answers to Mercer as clues about what he and
05:04 Angie should do about the sensor. Joey doesn't understand him, but Angie realizes what Nick is
05:09 trying to say. She says that it's a heat sensor and they need to cool it down. They use a fire
05:13 extinguisher to take care of the sensor. Nick tells Mercer that he knows she pulled a print
05:17 of his cigarette and is about to find out who he is. Simultaneously, Mike goes to Joey's storage
05:22 unit and finds Nick's, Joe Walker's, and his own file in a cabinet. Marcus gets Nick's prints back
05:27 and calls Mercer. He tells her who Nick is and that he was in prison for stealing Englander's
05:31 40 million dollars Monarch Diamond. Marcus also tells her that he's the owner of the hotel,
05:35 with an office there and a diamond exchange across the street. Mercer and Doherty realize
05:39 that Nick's plan is to prove his innocence. She finds out that Mike was his partner and calls him
05:44 explaining the situation as he's burning the files he found in storage. Marcus calls Englander's
05:48 security and tells them to check on the vault. Simultaneously, Joey and Angie are right outside
05:53 the vault, trying to get in. Mercer confronts Nick and asks him what the whole point of his stunt is.
05:58 Nick tells her to send a team to the diamonds exchange, sending Joey into a panic because
06:01 they aren't finished there yet. He insists that he's innocent and needs Mercer's help because
06:05 Englander had set him up for stealing the diamond. She doesn't believe him. Then, Nick says that this
06:10 is his retrial and instigates the crowd below to agree with him. Simultaneously, Englander's
06:15 security is being escorted by the police toward the other building. Nick tells Joey about it and
06:19 he asks him to buy them some time to hide. Suddenly, Nick begins throwing money off the ledge,
06:24 and the crowd flocks the street, blocking the way for the police and the security to get to the
06:27 entrance of the exchange. Angie sets up a camera to get the passcode when the security guy enters
06:32 it, while Joey finds them a hiding spot. The security and the police officers get inside the
06:36 building and come up, just as Angie and Joey get inside the hiding spot. Simultaneously,
06:41 Marcus talks to Englander about Nick. Englander is pissed about the situation and thinks that it's
06:45 not a coincidence that Nick chose the same day as his major press conference about a new building
06:49 property to perform his stunt. Marcus says that he shouldn't worry, but gets threatened that his life
06:53 would be ruined if he doesn't fix the situation. Back at the exchange, the security guard takes the
06:58 police inside the vault room, entering the code. He explains all the security measures to the
07:02 officers which are enough to convince them that no one can break in, then he informs Marcus about
07:07 it. Marcus goes to the hotel room and gives Mercer 15 minutes to get Nick off the ledge or
07:11 he's sending in the tactical team. Meanwhile, Mike is speeding toward the hotel. Joey and Angie get
07:16 out of hiding and go back to the vault room. Mercer tells Nick that tactical will come after
07:20 him if he doesn't get down so he tells her about what happened when the diamond was stolen.
07:24 Apparently, the diamond was stolen by Englander's men, who jumped Nick when he was transporting it.
07:29 Englander was getting closer to being bankrupt, but instead of selling the diamond and admitting
07:33 to that, he got insurance for it. Mercer wants to believe him but hesitates when Nick tells her
07:37 that Englander's thugs were probably cops. She goes to investigate his story when Mike arrives
07:41 at the hotel. He checks in with Marcus before he goes up. A police officer brings in some documents
07:46 they found in Nick's cell and Mike offers to take them to the room. Mercer voices her suspicions
07:51 about Nick's guilt to Doherty, but he's pretty sure that he did it. She asks Marcus about it
07:55 too and tells him that Nick was cooperating with Internal Affairs about another case involving a
07:59 cop called Joe Walker. She thinks that it's connected to Nick's case, but Marcus denies it.
08:03 When Mercer tells him that Nick won't jump, he orders the tactical team to get into position.
08:07 Meanwhile, the crowd and the media all have different opinions about Nick's presumed guilt.
08:12 Mike takes a look at the documents from Nick's cell and removes a few of them before he gets
08:16 into the room and delivers the rest to Doherty. Mercer questions him about Englander, but he says
08:20 that he had nothing to do with him. She's suspicious of Mike too and isn't letting him get near Nick
08:24 even though he insists that they're friends. At the same time, Angie crawls through a vent to get
08:28 into the vault room. When she gets inside, the first thing she needs to do is disarm the security
08:33 system and she needs Nick's help for that. Mercer calls him back into the room again,
08:37 but Nick asks her to buy him some more time. Doherty finds bomb schematics in the documents.
08:41 Simultaneously, Nick tells Angie how she can short-circuit the main processor to shut down
08:46 the sensors. She has a moment of doubt on which wire to cut but gets the right one eventually.
08:50 Angie uses the wire to fry the processor and turns off the sensors. Joey opens the vault room door,
08:55 then drill through the vault itself to open it. The tactical team is getting into position and
08:59 Mercer asks Nick if there really is a bomb. Doherty tells her that she needs to clear the window.
09:04 She argues with him and Marcus about what they should do, but since none of them want to listen
09:08 to her she steps on the ledge next to Nick. Angie and Joey break into the vault finally and open it
09:12 up to reveal all of Englander's riches. They have their sights on only one thing though,
09:16 a monarch diamond. While they search through the vault, Mercer and Nick stand side by side on the
09:20 ledge. Unfortunately, they don't find the diamond and when they call Nick to inform him, Mercer sees
09:25 him talking to Joey. Nick tells her what his plan was. Since the diamond isn't in the vault,
09:29 Joey has to switch to plan B. They activate the alarms to distract the police and the security.
09:34 Englander goes to take a look at the vault and tells his guard to keep the police out while he
09:37 checks on the real safe where he keeps the monarch. He's relieved to find it there and decides to take
09:41 it with him. Mercer comes back into the room and asks to talk to Yaw. Mike returns and pulls
09:46 Doherty out of the room, locking him out so he can speak to Nick alone. He calls him back in,
09:50 saying he can help. Nick tells Mike that they're talking to Yaw which makes Mike nervous and he
09:55 reaches out to grab him. At the same time, Marcus orders Tactical to get Nick and two agents drop
09:59 down. Nick manages to escape them and jumps from one ledge to another until he gets back inside
10:04 the hotel. The crowd gets unruly when they see what's going on. Marcus and Tactical manage the
10:09 search for Nick as he runs through the hotel. Meanwhile, Englander gets back to his office and
10:13 finds Joey and Angie waiting for him there. Joey frisks him and finds the diamond. They make him
10:18 cuff himself to the safe in his office and leave with the diamond. When they get to reception,
10:22 they give the valet a bag telling him to hold it. The man takes the diamond out and puts it away.
10:27 Englander gets to a phone and tells Marcus that Joey has the diamond. Then Marcus tells
10:31 Tactical that Nick has a bomb trigger and they have to take him down. Mercer is searching for
10:35 Mike and Nick through the hotel when she gets a callback from Yaw. The agent tells her that they
10:39 have circumstantial evidence on Mike and Marcus. Nick is being chased down by the Tactical team.
10:44 He runs into the valet who hands him his jacket with the diamond, then shows the officers in the
10:48 other direction. They still catch up to Nick who steps out on the ledge again and climbs up the
10:52 hotel. Meanwhile, Marcus finds Joey and Angie and he tortures them for information about the diamond.
10:57 Nick gets to the roof at the same time as Mercer and Tactical. He gets on his knees when Marcus
11:01 arrives and arrests Mercer for obstruction. Marcus orders the Tactical team to back down so he can
11:06 remain alone with Nick. When they leave, Englander gets Joey up on the roof and threatens Nick that
11:10 he'll kill Joey if he doesn't give him the diamond. Nick returns the diamond, but Englander
11:14 still tells Marcus to kill them. Mercer gets out of her restraints and immediately heads back to
11:19 the roof. Marcus tells Nick to jump off the roof or he'll throw his brother off. Suddenly, Mike
11:24 shows up and shoots him down, but he gets shot too. He apologizes to Nick for setting him up as Marcus
11:29 is ready to kill them both. Mercer arrives in time and kills him. Joey calls over to Nick that
11:34 Englander is getting away. With nothing left to lose, Nick jumps off the roof and fortunately
11:38 lands on the air mattress the police set up earlier. He runs after Englander and confronts
11:42 him in front of the crowd. Nick runs over to him and knocks him down so he can get the diamond.
11:47 Once it's in his hand he shows it to the crowd who cheer in his favor. Later, Mercer picks Nick
11:51 up from prison and they go to a bar where everyone is happy to see him. His father, who was alive and
11:56 helping him the entire time, is the happiest. In the final moments, Joey asks Angie to marry her
12:01 with a ring he stole from Englander. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you can
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