On the side of good is Bryant (Michelle Monaghan), an idealistic cop who is determined to root out the bad seeds in the police force.
He’s so ruthless that he cuts out his own cousin’s tongue just so that it can serve as a plot device later on in the movie. The drugs are promised to Novak (Scoot McNairy), the weaselly scion of a notorious crime dynasty. It turns out that Rubino has his own reasons to worry. The boy is kidnapped as leverage Vincent is stabbed in the flank and told to return the cocaine if he wants to see his kid again.
But the thieves are a pair of corrupt cops – Vincent (Foxx) and Sean (Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris) – and the owner of the drugs, casino boss Rubino (Dermot Mulroney) is the kind of man who tends to get possessive about his stash.Įven with the benefit of hindsight at the end of the film, it’s not entirely clear how the drug dealers link the theft to Vincent so quickly, but he is carjacked while grudgingly driving his 16-year-old son to football later the same day. A pair of masked men pull off the daring theft of twenty-five kilos of cocaine. An opening heist sequence sprays bullets and leaves as many questions as it does bodies. The synthetic sheen of the Las Vegas backdrop is given a grubby immediacy by camerawork that squirms and twitches. Audiences who prefer to feel a little roughed up by their action movies might show an interest, but it is doubtful that this picture will match the commercial performance of the similarly-paced and equally bloody John Wick films. Since Foxx has been absent from cinemas for three years (his last film outing was in the remake of Annie in 2014), it’s unlikely that his name will generate enough interest in this convoluted crime pic to counteract the lukewarm critical response. It’s the kind of role that an actor of Foxx’s calibre could – and does – churn out on autopilot. A Taken-style Dad rescue melds with an undercover(-or-is-he?) Narc plot, topped with relentless, thunderously overstated fight sequences. The film also pillages stylistic and thematic influences from many other, mostly superior, movies. If this rampaging, bullet-strafed blitzkrieg feels familiar, it’s not just because it is a by-the-numbers remake of Frédéric Jardin’s propulsive thriller Sleepless Night ( Nuit Blanche). Swiss director Baran bo Odar leans heavily on bone-crunching sound design and a percussive score Rather than see this, you're better off watching the original French movie.A grimly determined Jamie Foxx goes up against a pummelling score and plot which peels so many onion layers of treachery that it appears as if the whole of the Las Vegas police department is complicit in the cocaine deal which goes south in the opening scene. Open Road Films will release Sleepless in theaters starting January 13th this month. The screenplay is written by Andrea Berloff ( Blood Father, Straight Outta Compton), based on the original 2011 film written by Frédéric Jardin & Nicolas Saada. Sleepless is directed by Swiss filmmaker Baran bo Odar, of the films The Silence and Who Am I previously. Based on the 2011 French film Nuit Blanche, also known as Sleepless Night. Here's the new red band trailer (+ poster) for Baran bo Odar's Sleepless, direct from YouTube:Ī cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son. You're better off just watching the original film. This isn't much of a red band trailer, there is barely anything to it, which is probably a metaphor for this movie. The cast features Michelle Monaghan, David Harbour, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Union, Scoot McNairy, T.I. This violent action movie stars Jamie Foxx as an undercover cop who angrily heads into a nightclub to search for his kidnapped son. "I'm gunna make this right." Open Road Films has unveiled one final red band trailer for Sleepless, the American remake of the French action film Sleepless Night.
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