#SLEEPLESS MOVIE MOVIE#
That vibe extends to the film as a whole: Sleepless won't put you to bed, but don't expect to be kept on the edge of your seat, either. Movie Info Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs (Jamie Foxx) finds himself caught in a high-stakes web of corrupt cops, internal affairs and murderous gangsters. The Luxus never feels like a fully realized, three-dimensional arena for all this to unfold its geography is vague when it should be laid out with the clarity of a blueprint. Mihai Malaimare Jr.'s camera slithers through the casino in an elaborate manner suggesting Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes, but nothing else is as ambitious or daring. Such moments are fleeting, however, and serve as only brief reprieves from the growing sense that you've seen this movie before - even if you haven't actually watched the one it's based on. Still, the director has an eye for set pieces: Odar makes creative use, in one standout scene, of both a champagne bottle attached to a sparkler (as a weapon) and one of those expensive Italian cars you always see in casinos (as a getaway vehicle). Not that there's much of note for them to pounce on, mind. Too, Odar maintains a sense of momentum by introducing more and more players and keeping them moving before long, there's more than one cat, more than one mouse, and at any given moment one or more of them might be ready to pounce. Sleepless Oscar winner Jamie Foxx plays a dirty Las Vegas cop whose son is kidnapped by dangerous mobsters. Monaghan and Foxx, for all their gifts, can't transcend the material, though they do get more out of it than most others would be able to. Like a lot of January releases, Sleepless is at least somewhat refreshing for being neither a $100 million superhero movie nor a late-breaking prestige picture, but it'd be a lie to say you're likely to remember this one come April. (One unfortunate side effect of the actor's presence and the film's nocturnal timeline: reminding us that Collateral exists and our time would be better spent re-watching that instead.) The lion's share of what follows takes place during one long night in the fictional Luxus casino, with Foxx slowly bleeding out from a stab wound sustained while his kid was violently removed from his custody. Jamie Foxx movies have been entertaining in the past. He's confidently blasé about being under suspicion, at least until his semi-estranged son is kidnapped by the high-level casino owner he unwittingly ripped off. Wasnt sure what to expect since I had seen no previews or reviews of movie.
Her Internal Affairs agent is onto him from the start of the case, which involves a drug deal gone wrong and police-issued bullets recovered at the scene. The positives don't extend much further for Baran bo Odar's remake of the 2011 French thriller Sleepless Night, which shifts the action to Las Vegas and places Monaghan opposite Jamie Foxx's corrupt - or, if you believe his side of the story, undercover - cop.
Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you've seen her in lately, whether it be True Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe.
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