Insomnia (2002)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 175
Fresh: 162 | Rotten: 13
Driven by Pacino's performance, Insomnia is a smart and riveting psychological drama.
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 2
Driven by Pacino's performance, Insomnia is a smart and riveting psychological drama.
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Director Christopher Nolan follows up his breakthrough sophomore film Memento with this remake of a stylish Norwegian thriller. Al Pacino stars as Detective Will Dormer, a Los Angeles Police Department legend who temporarily escapes an internal affairs investigation that may ruin his career by traveling to Nightmute, AK, the remote site of a murder that has the local authorities flummoxed. Along with his partner, Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan), and the small town's wide-eyed rookie investigator,
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Cast
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Al Pacino
Det. Will Dormer -
Robin Williams
Walter Finch -
Hilary Swank
Ellie Burr -
Maura Tierney
Rachel Clement -
Martin Donovan
Hap Eckhart -
Nicky Katt
Fred Duggar -
Paul Dooley
Chief Charles Nyback -
Larry Holden
Farrell -
Katharine Isabelle
Tanya Francke -
Jay Brazeau
Francis -
Kate Robbins
Woman On The Road -
Paula Shaw
Coroner -
Ian Tracey
Warfield -
Emily Perkins
Girl At Funeral -
Jonathan Jackson
Randy Stetz -
Tasha Simms
Mrs. Connell -
Dean Wray
Ticket Taker -
Ken Kirzinger
Stunt Coordinator -
Kerry Sandomirsky
Trish Eckhart -
James Hutson
Officer #1 -
Malcom Boddington
Principle -
Andrew Campbell
Officer #2 -
Lorne Cardinal
Rich -
Chris Guthior
Uniformed Officer -
Crystal Lowe
Kay Connell -
Oliver "Ole" Zemen
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All Critics (177) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (168) | Rotten (13) | DVD (37)
It's a crafty story told with more style and gray areas than your average thriller.
Top CriticInsomnia is not my kind of arsenic, but it's so well-made and enigmatic I liked it anyway.
The Hollywood version (which is half an hour longer) transports the action to Alaska, and works up a respectable level of bleary-eyed paranoia.
The best thing about Insomnia is that despite director Christopher Nolan's soft spot for moody-blues obfuscation, he has the good sense to keep his star in practically every shot.
A thriller whose style, structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story, you cannot separate them.
You see Robin Williams and psycho killer, and you think, hmmmmm. You see the movie and you think, zzzzzzzzz.
Insomnia is a slow burn, and the European influences are very obvious in both pacing and tone.
An exceptional picture from one of the most gifted British filmmakers to emerge in the past decade.
...as of this writing, neither Pacino nor Williams has done anything significantly better. (Blu-ray Edition)
...if there is anything that spoils the fun, it's the plot itself, which is too straightforward and offers too few surprises to be entirely engaging.
Pacino can't be accused of sleepwalking through Christopher Nolan's brilliant Insomnia.
This director has an unerring knack for arresting imagery and disorienting narrative.
Director Christopher Nolan sure does like to mess with the senses.
Fans of the original will miss its relentless dyspepsia, but Nolan's intention was clearly to cast the material in a more conventional Hollywood mold without turning it into namby-pamby nonsense, and he succeeds admirably.
The film is creepy, and not because of any one particular scene or moment, but because Nolan takes us, body and soul, into a place that all is illuminated all the time
Ultimately, Nolan's film asks the question: Do the ends justify the means? Dormer is willing to go to cover up the truth to bring about a result that is good for the world.
Al Pacino has played enough wise guys and tough cops to be able to do it in his sleep. And that's pretty much what he does in Insomnia, a stylish suspense-thriller
Very good...
Never reaches its full potential, but still manages to be better than the average, run-of-the-mill crime thriller.
Inteligente suspense que conta com ótimos diálogos e atuações deslumbrantes de Pacino e Williams. As cenas em que estes contracenam são geniais - e a fotografia e as locações são belíssimas.
Audience Reviews for Insomnia
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- Det. Will Dormer: I'm coasting on my laurels, thank you.
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- Det. Will Dormer: Day after day you suck the marrow out of real cops when you never had the balls to become one yourself.
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- Randy Stetz: You're just a prick in a leather jacket. What the fuck do you know?
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- Det. Will Dormer: [phone rings] Dormer here hello.
- Walter Finch: Can't sleep will.
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- Det. Will Dormer: Just let me sleep.
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- Det. Will Dormer: Don't lose your way.
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Foreign Titles
- Insomnia (2002) (CA)
- Insomnio (ES)
