On the Line stars Mel Gibson as Elvis, a late night radio host in Los Angeles who talks to all kinds of people on the air but one night while doing a show it is interrupted by a caller named Gary who is holding his wife and daughter hostage and makes Elvis go through all kinds of hoops in order to save them.
On the Line works best when it embraces the early 90s “Die Hard in a” part of its story as you see after Die Hard became a smash hit in 1988 every other studio wanted their own version of it the most famous of those were Cliffhanger with Stallone and Under Siege with Steven Seagal and this movie works great when it goes in that direction there’s a problem that Elvis has to solve but if he leaves the station then his family dies and I really dug this part of the film.
But the other part of it which is how this movie ends and I won’t say too much more didn’t work as well for me as it tried to be too clever and twisty turny for its own good and when it was all over I sat there thinking “what was that” to a certain extent.
And also as much I love watching Mel Gibson especially his back catalogue the character he played here, this kind of late night shock jock type of character started to bother me after a while mainly due to the rather significant baggage Gibson now carries in his own life that led to his downfall and disgrace and it felt like I thought the movie would blur the 2 now thankfully it doesn’t but there were parts where I thought it would and it bothered me.
And so that was On the Line and it’s a mixed bag, a good thriller that gets too twisty and turny for its own good and doesn’t quite make that landing a smooth one but its still a fun thriller, 2 and a half out of 5.
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