Mel Gibson Makes Film Comeback; Comments on Obama

This time it’s about President Obama, and how he doesn’t think that the president has the means necessary to “fix” America.

“[Obama] is a man with an impossible task on his hands," Gibson said at the Hollywood premiere of his latest drama thriller Edge of Darkness on Tuesday night.

"He got left a mess and I wish him all the best but I don’t think he’s going to fix it in five minutes and probably not in his entire tenure."

Gibson could have possibly said this for more publicity for his new movie, which coincidentally is about politics.

He stars as homicide detective Thomas Craven, who is in the middle of an investigation into the murder of his activist daughter. In the process, Craven discovers a corporate cover-up and government conspiracy in which an agent who is in charge of cleaning up the evidence gets involved in.

"It picks the scab off the governmental, corporate paranoia - the under the table workings that happen," Gibson explained. "I think we've lost our naiveté, I don’t think we have any pretension that what most of our leaders are doing is leading us to the slaughterhouse."

And with all the headline news Gibson has made over the past few years with various trials and tribulations in his personal life-especially his anti-Semitic rant a few years ago -it is hard to believe it has been seven years since he actually took on a major film role, the last being "Signs" in 2002.

"I just wanted to come back and that was just the best piece of material that crossed my hands" he said.