Jamie foxx sleepless 28/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He wanders through the unravelling ineptitude of this film with understandable wide-eyed shock and embarrassment. “Embarrassed…” Jamie Foxx, who wishes he wasn’t ‘Sleepless’ (2017). A fine, funny and gifted film actor, whether imbuing crooner Ray Charles with cheeky relish in the biopic Ray (2004, and scooping the Best Actor Oscar) or showcasing a brooding hero in the western Django Unchained (2012), he is an actor who has shown his versatility. Pity poor Foxx then, who is visibly aware of the limitations this film and the crew are affording them. I got the feeling throughout that this was supposed to be set in a playground, rather than ‘nasty’, murderous, drug-fuelled adult Las Vegas. Foxx and Monaghan exchange some ‘witty’ verbiage during the final scene: “What happened to your face?” “What happened to yours?”.Whatever happened to modern nursing ethics?! And uses it to shoot a man at point blank range. But she carries a gun in her glove compartment. Foxx’s ex-wife (who is preparing to marry a man called Steve, despite Foxx’s protestations.Despite hundreds of men’s outfits flying overhead, he grabs one that contains a blazingly white shirt Foxx, bleeding profusely from a stab wound, escapes through a dry cleaning service.Scoot McNairy, as a far-too-nice ‘violent’ drug baron says: “Your not doing your job.This brief scene should be loaded with action and drama, but instead feels clunky and handled with uncertainty as if by an amateurs hand.Īs for further examples of lazy and sloppy elements: argue in the gents after Foxx’s son has been kidnapped and he has been stabbed, with T.I wholly responsible. There is none of this in this opening scene everything is staged in a very perfunctory manner. Always a great way to start a film, lots of noise, use some fast paced editing to up the momentum and show off some fancy camera moves. Sleepless felt a bit like a film production graduate’s first shot at the big time: all of the elements are there to make a satisfactory film, all that’s needed is a bit of confidence, some brio with the action scenes and snappy, coarse dialogue.Īs an example, there is a shoot-out between two groups of people. Eventually, it gets so tied up in its own convolutions it appears the writer and director have shrugged their shoulders, shouted ‘Meh!’ and let events run their course until they have run out of steam.īut this is at least in-keeping with the audience’s reaction, one of tired resignation and hope that the experience will quickly finish. The constantly twisting and turning narrative, although actually predictable, turns the story into an amusingly knotty one. (For the organised archivists amongst you, this would sit on the same DVD shelf as your Law & Order collections before Criminal Intent but after SVU). It is a poorly written and unconfidently handled cop thriller, but is so like any other passable police procedural piece, it stacks up relatively neatly alongside them. To be completely honest, Sleepless is not an awful film. If Andrea Berloff even has a thesaurus, I’d be surprised. The same cannot be said of the writer of this hackneyed, derivative police thriller. ![]() The thesaurus is a wonderful publication and I make frequent use of it, to avoid making such excruciating communications schoolboy errors. My one bug-bear as a Press Officer is using repeated words in a media release or statement in close proximity. Detective Bryant (Michelle Monaghan), who has long suspected Vincent of being dirty, goes to the casino to apprehend him, but places herself in danger. Vincent has to go rogue to rescue him from the casino of mobster Rubino (Dermot Mulroney). I.A. After Sean steals a shipment of cocaine, the cartel kidnap Vincent’s teenage son. detective, who is protecting members of a notorious drug cartel. But Sean is working with (and triple-crossing) a corrupt I.A. Vincent (Jamie Foxx) is a Las Vegas cop who works undercover for Internal Affairs, along with his partner Sean (T.I.). To like this post, comment on it or follow this blog, please scroll to the bottom. Use the search function on the left of the screen to look for other reviews and updates. Co-starring Michelle Monaghan and Dermot Mulroney. Film review by Jason Day of Sleepless, a thriller starring Jamie Foxx as an undercover cop in Las Vegas. ![]()
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