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It's a crafty story told with more style and gray areas than your average thriller.
Insomnia 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.
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
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.
Pacino is on world-beating form and Williams delivers his best straight performance yet.
Uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últimos tiempos.
A classic example of a director bringing his own vision to the mainstream.
Pacino gives one of the best performances I've seen him in; his sense of sleeplessness is infectuous, weighing down the entire proceeding with a kind of relentless fatigue.
It grabs us with the premise and holds our attention and doesn't let go.
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