I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
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Movie Reviews of I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Movie Review: Clive Owen with mustache and beard.
Summary: 3 Stars
Clive Owen ( was a popular favorite to become "James Bond" in 2005 , but he bowed out) plays "Will", a good samaritan who saw someone get beat up by three thugs. When the thugs left, Will takes the injured man back home to his wife to heal. Meanwhile, his younger brother, Davey (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is taking a taxi cab ride with an unlicenced driver (Tim Plester), but the cab is groovy inside. When the cab stalls, Davey must foot it the rest of the way. Boad (Malcolm McDowall) and his thugs come upon him and Boad sadomizes Davey. Davey withers home the next morning in pain. Fully clothed and bleeding, he sits in his bathtub. When a friend comes to visit Davey, he finds him dead in the bathtub with a slash on his neck. So he must find Will. Will was a gangleader in the past, but has retreated himself into a private world of his own. He hasn't been seen in three years. Will decides to get in contact with his brother, but when he discovers he had committed suicide, he comes out of exile to find out the truth about Davey and what happened to him.
Also in the cast: Charlotte Rampling, Jamie Foreman, Ken Stott and Sylvia Syms.
DVD contains no extras.
Clive Owen was nominated for an Outstnding Supporting Actor Academy Award the same year this movie was released for CLOSER (2004).
Movie Review: Atmosphere, Revenge, and Poor Characterizations.
Summary: 3 Stars
"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead " is a moody, atmospheric revenge film that takes place among the trainspotters and swank bosses of the criminal underworld. Will Graham (Clive Owen) is a reclusive ex-con who feels impelled to resume his old ways to avenge his brother David's (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) violent death. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" has more style than substance. Clive Owen is always charismatic, but here he is less so than usual. The audience simply doesn't know enough about Will to wrap it's mind around. Charlotte Rampling and Malcolm McDowell round out a talented cast, but their roles are too small to provide anything but glimpses of their characters. The film takes an awfully long time to arrive at the main story, and once it does, produces very little of substance in its characters or themes. It seems cursory, as if a better film might be found below the surface of this one. -Perhaps if the dialogue were improved and more time were spent on character development instead of the lead-in. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" isn't altogether bad. It has some intriguing moments. But even for Clive Owen fans, this film's a bit flat. There are no bonus features on the DVD. Subtitles are available in English.Movie Review: Interesting, but flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
I like this movie for a lot of reasons. It is visually very stylish and interesting. There are some very good performances, and the contrast between Clive Owen's character, Will Graham, and everyone else from the old neighborhood is fascinating. Will Graham is a character who has left his old life, not to start a new one, but to cut himself off completely from any life. He returns to find out why his younger brother killed himself. The ending, before he seeks his revenge, has a strange ritualistic quality that heightens the tension. In the final analysis, however, I didn't think that the story of Will's search for the reason for his brother's death was nearly as interesting as the story that takes place before the film begins - what happened to Will that led him to abandon everything and begin aimless travels in a beatup camper, spending most of his time by himself. His ex-lover, played by Charlotte Rampling, says he "had a breakdown," but that doesn't provide any insight into what caused this stark, dramatic, and ultimately solitary disappearance from life. Without any understanding of this change, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" is interesting , but emotionally unsatisfying.Movie Review: Slow Start, Spectacular Middle, Where's the End?
Summary: 3 Stars
The title of the review just about says it all. This movie gets off to a bit of a slow start. For the first forty minutes you're watching what seems to be a series of unrelated, unfortunate events. Then, everything falls into place and the pleasantly balanced ensemble cast allows you to fall into London's underbelly for an hour of mystery and intrigue surrounding the suicide of Davey (Rhys-Meyers). His older brother, Will (Clive Owen), once a prominent figure in London's crime community has been in hiding for 3 years from his past and himself. While looking at the reasons his little brother killed himself, Will must decide if he'll give in to vengeance, or continue to rise above what he once was.
Yet, just as the film reaches its climax, the credits start to roll leaving several very important plot points completely unresolved. This is beyond simply having an open ending. It ends so abruptly it feels as if the production simply ran out of money to continue.
Ultimately, it is leaving so much open that causes to me award only three stars to what would have otherwise been an absolutely brilliant piece of cinema.
Movie Review: Clueless
Summary: 3 Stars
Beautifully photographed, moodily and hiply scored, dripping with charisma and sex appeal from Clive Owen and Charlotte Rampling, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" nonetheless fails to inspire anything but bewilderment: with all this talent and these superior production values...what happened?Clive Owen plays Will, an exiled criminal that returns home to solve the death, supposedly suicide, of his younger brother Davey: a spiffy, low level drug dealer and Babe magnet. Director Mike Hodges ("Croupier") wants to have it all and he throws everything but the kitchen sink at us: there is an extended discussion of suicide that is better left for an educational film, there are old grudges thrown at Will from all sides none of which are resolved nor explained and then there is the character of Boad (Malcolm MacDowell) whose motivations are at best silly and at worst, empty-headed and ill-conceived.
"ISWID" is beautiful to look at then, but on closer inspection it's empty and illogical and more importantly a huge waste of talent and money.