#SLEEPLESS AMC MOVIE#
Vincent is no Jack Bauer and he gets more than a small opportunity to catnap during the running time! In summary, the movie is perfectly watchable for its action moments. By the way, I have no idea why the film is called "Sleepless", other than it being based on a 2011 French film called "Nuit Blanche" which was perhaps written in a way where it made more sense. I also thought Scoot McNairy was great as the cold-eyed crazy hoodlum and it's also interesting to see Dermot Mulrooney, so memorable as the male lead in 1997's "My Best Friend's Wedding", back in a mainstream role. Fox and Monaghan are too good for the material but have screen chemistry that keeps the film watchable. Thankfully I never noticed this before I saw the film. It's also extremely irritating that one of the key twists in the movie (although you may guess it) is so blatantly spoiled: both by an audio line in the trailer (at 1:40) and – more appallingly – by one of the two straplines for the film on the posters. The wound adds nothing but implausibility to the action, so why include it at all? And a scene in an underground car park involving copious quantities of tear gas brought tears of embarrassment to my eyes: an affliction that didn't seem to affect any of the protagonists in the film! This is a great shame, and writer Andrea Berloff ("Straight Outta Compton") and Swiss-born director Baran bo Odar should have more respect for their audience's intelligence (that's the third movie in recent weeks I've made that comment on. For example, Foxx suffers a severe knife wound early in the film, but repeatedly bounces from 'full action hero fighting machine' mode to 'staggering and holding his side' mode without pause. There are such a range of implausibilities on show here that it makes you wonder why anyone involved in the film didn't just stop and say "WAIT A MINUTE HERE GUYS" and demand a rewrite. What drags the film down though through is the scripting and direction. The film delivers some good fight scenes and action, but nothing we haven't seen before in countless other movies like Bourne. Johnson) is kidnapped as a trade for the drugs. For Downs the pressure is on when his teenage son Thomas ( Octavius J. Naturally they pocket this, but unbeknownst to them the deal was between casino boss Rubino (Dermot Mulrooney, "The Grey") and the vicious mafia son of the local Novak family, Rob (Scoot McNairy, "Argo").
This allows them to get their hands on a significant quantity of heroine. As the film opens, and playing out a strong anti-hero role, Downs with his equally dodgy partner are involved in a shootout at a drug deal in the streets of Las Vegas. In terms of the storyline it's best to go into the film (as I did) with limited knowledge of the plot (on which more below). Holding it all together are solid performances from Jamie Foxx ("Django Unchained") as Vincent Downs, the cop with a dodgy background, and Michelle Monaghan ("Source Code", "Patriot's Day") as the internal affairs cop doggedly on his trail.
Kidnapped teen ("I WILL find you")? Check.Īll of these standard tropes are lobbed into the movie blender and pulsed well.Nasty "Black Rain" style hoodlum? Check.Ecclesiastes 1:9 came up with the oft used quote that "there is nothing new under the sun".
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