It’s far from incompetent, but it’s a who-cares? thriller.
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Foxx is too good an actor - taut and committed - to phone in his performance, yet that hardly matters, since the whole movie is phoned in. A remake of the 2011 French/Belgian thriller “Sleepless Night (Nuit Blanche),” “Sleepless” is a propulsive thin exercise, “energetic” but tedious, the kind of January movie that Jamie Foxx should have permanently graduated from. Vincent is in deep hot water, but there’s one problem that transcends all the others: He’s stuck in a movie that’s such a terse, minimalist litany of cop-movie clichés, with a script that minces no words because it barely bothers to come up with any, that almost nothing about his situation is very enjoyable.
She’s got plans to expose him, and after he stashes the drugs over a casino men’s-room stall, she goes in there and takes them, removing his only power card. Then there’s the Internal Affairs agent ( Michelle Monaghan) who is sure that Vincent is a dirty cop. But since Vincent is supposed to be delivering the kid to a high-school football game, he has to keep lying to his ex-wife (Gabrielle Union) about the son’s whereabouts (it beats saying, “Uh, sorry, he’s tied up in a kitchen closet somewhere”). To secure and retrieve the drugs, Stanley Rubino (Dermot Mulroney), a natty weasel of a casino owner, has kidnapped Vincent’s 16-year-old son, Thomas (Octavius J. Vincent is now carrying 25 kilos of cocaine (street value: $7 million) that could get him killed. He and his partner (played by the rapper T.I.) just killed two crooks they shouldn’t have, and they also ripped off a more dangerous drug dealer than the one they thought they were working. Production companies: Riverstone Pictures, Vertigo EntertainmentĬast: Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, David Harbour, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Gabrielle Union, Scoot McNairyĮxecutive producers: Tom Ortenberg, Petr Lawson, Marco Cherqui, Lauranne Bourrachot, Deepak Nayar, Nik Bower, Alex Foster, John Powers Middleton, Judd Payne, Jeremiah Samuelsĭirector of photography: Mihai Malaimare Jr.In “ Sleepless,” a stylishly hollow crime thriller set in Las Vegas, Jamie Foxx plays an undercover cop named Vincent Downs who is up to his goatee in Big Problems. Photographed in the familiar dark metallic color palette that has become a visual cliche in thrillers of this type, Sleepless belies its title by having a narcotizing effect. But Gabrielle Union is totally wasted as Vincent’s wife, who spends most of the proceedings worriedly making phoning calls before displaying some incongruous action moves toward the end. Some of the supporting players - including Mulroney and McNairy as the bad guys, and David Harbour as Bryant’s cop partner - fare better by comparison.
But despite those and many other moments of violent mayhem, the film never truly proves exciting.ĭGA Nominations: 'Lion' Roars, 'Birth of a Nation' Reborn, 'Deadpool' Stays Aliveįoxx tries very, very hard to be badass, but his formidable charisma is barely on display in his monotonous turn, and Monaghan overplays her character’s Inspector Javert-like tendencies to the point of near-silliness. There’s a particular emphasis on fight scenes, including an elaborately staged kitchen-set bout that naturally features a wide variety of cooking paraphernalia, and a highly physical hotel-room dustup between Foxx and Monaghan that at least reveals intense preparation on the part of the actors. Working from a script by Andrea Berloff ( Oscar-nominated for Straight Outta Compton), Swiss director Baran bo Odar ( Who Am I, The Silence) keeps the action moving at an almost comically relentless pace. When she manages to get hold of the drugs that Vincent has temporarily stashed in a casino restroom, it sets off a violent chain of events over the course of a single night. Really RichĮven while desperately attempting to return the drugs in order to save his son, Vincent finds himself relentlessly pursued by indefatigable Internal Affairs investigator Bryant (Michelle Monaghan). "I Am the Trump of Hollywood": The Reclusive and Outrageous Jon Peters Is Still Rich.
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