![]() And wedge into its 135 minutes much boring bickering between blandly biting baddies (Dermot Mulroney and Scoot McNairy), not to mention a string of scenes where flustered cops wait for elevators to arrive. Upgrade its setting from a claustrophobic French night club to a towering Las Vegas casino, despite the fact that lowers the stakes by offering more options for escape. Get a “big” name to sell it ( Annie and The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Jamie Foxx). So how would Hollywood seek to recreate this lightning in a bottle? Oh you know. Sadly, even the foggy recollection of the original is better than this bloated bastardization.įor those who don’t remember or have never heard of it, Sleepless Night was the action film so fucking good it had critics arguing in favor of its Oscar chances, despite the Academy’s notorious genre bias. In the spring of 2012, I reviewed the French action-thriller Sleepless Night with unrestrained enthusiasm, calling it a film that “elevates the action genre to mind-bending and intoxicating territory with a fast-paced plot that’s peopled with intriguing characters, clever reversals, and above all relentless action.” With only vague but happy memories of this movie, I sat down to see its American remake, Sleepless. The aching downside of seeing a truly sensational foreign-language film is the thudding realization that a sloppy American remake is inevitable. Here is our original review of that film, which grossed $32 million worldwide on a $30 million budget in 2017. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.Publisher’s Note: Now that Netflix makes public its ten most popular films at any given time, we have witnessed that it’s largely a mix of new original titles like Extraction, a lot of Gerard Butler, and the occasional random title of an old movie that resurfaces on Netflix, like The Roommate or, this week, Jamie Foxx’s Sleepless, which was the most watched film of Netflix over the weekend. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. Sleepless stars Jamie Foxx ( Django Unchained, White House Down) as undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. Then again, it's always anybody's game at the box office, so we'll have to wait and see who comes out on top. While we don't have exact theater counts for any of the movies opening nationwide next weekend quite yet, it's possible these expanding movies could make it more difficult for Sleepless to gain any sort of traction at the box office. Warner Bros.' Live By Night, which Ben Affleck directs and stars in, will expand alongside Lionsgate's Patriots Day, starring Mark Wahlberg, which delves into the Boston marathon bombing. That weekend will also feature the nationwide expansion of two movies that opened last month in limited release. However, it was recently pushed up to January 13, where it will face Paramount's Monster Trucks and STX Entertainment's The Bye Bye Man. This action-thriller was supposed to hit theaters on February 24, 2017, putting it up against Lionsgate's animated movie Rock Dog and Blumhouse's thriller Get Out. Sleepless is actually Open Road Films' remake of the 2011 French thriller Nuit Blanche, which starred Lizzie Brochere and Pom Klementieff ( Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. After refusing to shake Vincent's hand, after he surprisingly shows up at a crime scene, both Vincent and Jennifer show off their scars. ![]() Open Road Films has released a new clip from their upcoming crime thriller Sleepless, which shows a pointed conversation between Las Vegas undercover cop Vincent Downs ( Jamie Foxx) and internal affairs investigator Jennifer Bryant ( Michelle Monaghan), which doesn't exactly get off on the right foot. ![]() When you're an undercover cop in Las Vegas, you don't compare resumes, you compare battle wounds.
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