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Against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman he has always loved yet can never have.
Leave your thoughts about The Perfect Sleep.
| New York PostLou LumenickThe disjointed story is no more comprehensible than The Big Sleep. Though Alter is no Howard Hawks and Pardoe and Sanchez are no Bogie and Bacall, this movie looks great. You won't nap through The Perfect Sleep. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferWell-directed with exquisite visuals, but suffers from an often dull, convoluted and confusing plot as well as too much style over substance. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerNothing makes much sense in this ridiculously high minded narrative, but the emptiness is brimming with intensity and attitude, along with some inspired night vision footage and dialogue delivered as over the top self-serious soundbites. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Perfect Sleep puts me in mind of a flywheel spinning in the void. It is all burnished brass and shining steel, perfectly balanced as it hums in its orbit; yet, because it occupies a void, it satisfies only itself and touches nothing else. Here is a movie that goes about its business without regard for an audience. |
| Eye for FilmAnton Bitelmight not strictly be novel, or original, or even entertaining - but it cuts to something quintessential about cinema, as if to say: with visuals like these, what does it matter? |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerUnfortunately, Alter's often inventive work is kneecapped by a deliriously nonsensical script, which misses the mark as both over-the-top parody and straight-faced homage, and could have been intended as either. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAlthough the script by star Anton Pardoe is ambitious and creative, its dizzying array of characters, along with a dense story that unfolds more like a checklist of showdowns than an organic narrative, make for a tedious sit. |
| Slant MagazineHenry StewartThe Perfect Sleep is an empty homage to a bygone genre. |
| L.A. WeeklyLance GoldenbergThe movie layers its fatalistic drama with absurdist horseplay and a few moments of Lynch-ian mysticism, but it's an awkward mix at best; even when The Perfect Sleep is trying to be funny, it's far too self-conscious to really be much fun. |
| User Reviewdavid dI Enjoyed the movie and have watched it 4 times in the last 2 weeks, Can not get enough of the Doctor!!!! |