![]() I highly encourage you to check it out if you can watch it. Director Baran bo Odar is a relatively new filmmaker, yet he’s already made one stellar film with 2010’s German affair The Silence. Sleepless is so awful that it actually hurts to watch, and for a reason you likely don’t expect. This movie left me stunned, my mind pepper sprayed, the overall effect most likened to absorbing a cannonball of bad straight to the belly. This is the sort of uninspired adaptation of previous material that screenwriting teachers need to use as a bad example. Sleepless piles on the putrid plot like a farmer shoveling manure, and not one of the story lines contains a drop of blood or an ounce of sweat earned in the screenplay. The rightful owners of the drugs come into play at a gambling spot with even more people involved, such as hotel manager Stanley Rubino ( Dermot Mulroney) and his affiliation with crime boss Rob Novak ( Scoot McNairy). In on the action are Internal Affairs investigators Jennifer Bryant ( Michelle Monaghan) and Doug Dennison ( David Harbour), convinced that crooked cops are behind the stick ’em up. People die, they narrowly escape, and the next day the two volunteer to investigate the case. It involves Las Vegas officer Vincent Downs ( Jamie Foxx) and his longtime partner Cass ( T.I.) as dirty cops, executing an armed robbery to steal a large shipment of cocaine. Sleepless starts with a flashbang, rousing our attention with no real harm or threat posed off the tee-ball bat. It’s a one-lane, dead-end type of empty tank ride. See it so that you can find justification in skipping Sleepless, a defiantly obtuse and mindless movie leading the early charge for one of the new year’s worst pictures. But that foreign film is a tremendous watch, and one that can just as easily be enjoyed from the comfort of your couch. As an advocate of seeing a story on the big screen, in a theater, and with a crowd, that suggestion alone troubles me. The film’s 2011 French inspiration Sleepless Nightis available to rent on Amazon for a mere $0.99. Before you even think about paying to see Sleepless – be it at regular ticket price or for a discounted matinée – I strongly urge you to first spend a buck elsewhere.
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