
A drug heist goes wrong, as one of the drug carriers escapes after stabbing the robbers, gets a glimpse of their faces. The two masked men are actually two police officers, who decided to plan the heist. Vincent, a lieutenant who now has a bad stab wound, ends up with a huge bag of coke. The bag of coke belongs to a powerful mob boss/nightclub owner named Jose, who kidnaps Vincent's son in hopes to reclaim his property. Vincent has until the end of the night to return the sta... (Full plot summary below)
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A drug heist goes wrong, as one of the drug carriers escapes after stabbing the robbers, gets a glimpse of their faces. The two masked men are actually two police officers, who decided to plan the heist. Vincent, a lieutenant who now has a bad stab wound, ends up with a huge bag of coke. The bag of coke belongs to a powerful mob boss/nightclub owner named Jose, who kidnaps Vincent's son in hopes to reclaim his property. Vincent has until the end of the night to return the stash and save his son.
Leave your thoughts about Sleepless Night.
| The AristocratAdam RossThe great F. Scott Fitzgerald once said 'action is character' and by this notion, Vincent is a goddamn great character. |
| VarietyRob NelsonThere's no mistaking Jardin's playful mastery of the Hollywood-style action aesthetic; his movie starts in high gear and accelerates steadily from there. |
| RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonA frenetic French action film that will either get your heart or your head pounding. This is a relentless genre exercise, both exhilarating and exhausting. |
| IFC.comMatt SingerA midnight screening of Sleepless Night woke me up more effectively than any cup of coffee I've ever had in my life. |
| Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyAfter a few turns in the modest narrative, an unlikely sense of structural resilience begins to emerge. |
| Moveable FestStephen SaitoFrankly, the breathless pace of "Sleepless Night" doesn't allow for much in the way of character development, so it's left up to the slightest of impressions to make everyone onscreen interesting on the run. |
| sbs.com.auSimon FosterThe old comedian's adage 'If they buy the set-up, they buy the gag' is particularly pertinent to the grandly implausible premise of Sleepless Night, Frederic Jardin's frantic action-thriller. |
| HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoThe majority of this accomplished action flick takes place in one location on one crazy night and the result is a more intense, visceral experience than a vast majority of the Hollywood blockbusters you could see this Summer movie season. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThe story is loaded with implausibilities, but it moves so quickly you won't have long to dwell on them, and there are a number of neatly executed reversals. |
| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughKind of like Oliver Stone's Savages or French director Fred Cavayé's Point Blank, but without the nonsense. |