I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
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Movie Reviews of I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Movie Review: You'll wish you were dead!
Summary: 1 Stars
I usually don't take the time to review movies, but this one was so bad that I made an exception. First off, I must admit that I did not understand the movie. Second, I'm not sure there was anything to understand, that is except for the psychology behind people who rape and the psychology of people that have been raped,which was made unusually clear. The acting is very bad and the story is very weak. The end of the movie leaves you with a hired killer waiting for the main character, Will, at his girlfriends house. Don't worry, I did not spoil the movie if you have not seen it, because this scene like all the preceeding scenes, do not make any sense. The killer is so disconnected from the plot of the movie that it is hard to understand why he is even there. Rather than leaving the audience wondering what might happen when Will arrives, this movie is so disjointed, it leaves you wondering what kind of drugs the production staff where on when they made the movie. I'll sleep when I'm dead only served to drop my estimation of British films another couple of notches.Movie Review: poo poo
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is a real disappointment. It is soft, mushy, poo poo. The pace is plodding, the acting uninspired and the director and writer are to blame. What a waste of acting talent considering Clive barely has a pulse this entire film. Its all so much brooding Faustian grayness that the whole reformed or repentant bad guy thing is meaningless. The entire film is spent building up Clive as this uber toughguy and all he does is plug one guy and that's it! The entire premise (stop reading if you want to see the film) does not make sense. Three guys in tuxedoes rape a small time drug dealer-where is the motivation. Later we learn that the rapist Malcolm McDowell just didn't like him. And this guy is a fancy car dealer. Even the thugs in this movie are inadequate, the performances are uneven and Charlotte Rampling is wasted. This movie lacks action, the anger you would expect from a story where gangsters vie for power and a sibling who wants to take revenge for his brother's suicide loses control. Instead we are left with a waste of time. Shame on you Mike Hodges.Movie Review: Simply Terrible. One of the Worst.
Summary: 1 Stars
An enormously talented cast shows what can be done with a pile of junk script. While the premise of the movie is intriguing, the script is an undeveloped piece of garbage.
I was astonished at the praise heaped on this movie, including the Ebert & Roper "Two Thumbs Way Up" (way up what?). Every actor in the film is wasted, nothing is resolved, we are offered almost nothing of the characters backgrounds with that pretentious directorial "wink" that's supposed to make the "hip filmsters" know what's going on. Yawn.
Worst excuse for rape ever: When seeking vendetta for the rape (and eventual suicide of his brother Clive Owen's emotion-free Will asks "why" Malcolm MacDowell offers only a lame "He thought he was something special . . . the way he dressed, held a cigarette, the way women fawned over him, the way he walked . . . I wanted to show him he was nothing." Say what?
Truly a movie that should have never been made. A waste.
Movie Review: Wanted to like it.
Summary: 1 Stars
Is "moody thriller" synonymous with "goes nowhere"? I'd really hoped to like this movie, I like Clive Owen a great deal, enjoy Charlotte Rampling, and love both Malcolm McDowell and Jonathan Rhys-Myers, but there's nothing to hold onto in this movie. Nothing that engages you. None of the characters gave me any reason to care about them (except Rhys-Myers, but he dies in the first five-ten minutes. And I cared about his death. But not about any of the people it "affected").
It seems like it's trying to build for something, and, ultimately, yes, Will gets his revenge, but, really, motivation? Why did anyone in this movie do anything? McDowell's character (whose name I didn't even care enough to remember) had no motivation to bugger the boy, and there's an entire side-sub-plot involving guys that don't want Will in town that remains useless.
Overall, a huge disappointment.
Movie Review: And you'll sleep through this movie!
Summary: 1 Stars
After seeing Croupier, a previous collaboration between director Mike Hodges and actor Clive Owen, I was really looking forward to this movie. Unfortunately, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is simply a bad movie. Where to start- how about the homophobic undercurrent prevalent throughout the movie? According to this movie, the worse fate in the world is to be raped and the only logical answer is suicide. This movie is so rote and by-the-book, with absolutely no suspense or build up, that it felt like I was watching a graduate student film. Clive Owen, usually a fantastic actor, possibly does TOO GOOD a job during this movie, underacting to the point of practically sleepwalking through the part; Charlotte Rampling is wasted in her role while Malcolm McDowell ACTS as if he were wasted (on booze, that is). I can't believe the same guy that made Croupier made this mess.