"I'm the guy with nothing to lose ... fasten your seatbelt."

It's been a long time since Mel Gibson took the starring role in a film. You have to go back to M Night Shyamalan's 2002 hit Signs for it, and while he took a role in The Singing Detective in 2003, and a cameo in 2004's Paparazzi, he's concentrated his film energies behind the camera.

Next year, though, sees Mel Gibson headlining a movie for the first time in over half a decade, as he's front and centre of Martin Campbell's Edge Of Darkness. The film is a thriller that sees Gibson's character's daughter being murdered, which then leaves him to dig into her life. And what he finds when he gets there isn't quite what he was expecting.

It's a well structured trailer for the film that's just been released, enlightened enormously by the arrival of Ray Winstone half way through. It seems to be Gibson in a darker version of his Ransom role here, although the standard blockbuster script lines at the end are the mis-steps in the trailer for our money. Still, it looks like an interesting thriller from here...