Awake Reviews

Writer-director Joby Harold's debut is stylishly self-assured and suspenseful enough to quicken the pulse.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Imagine it's a comedy and pray for the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Se um ator admirável como Terrence Howard surge tão constrangedor neste longa, que chances teriam pobres aspirantes a intérpretes como Hayden Christensen e Jessica Alba?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Sex, Lies and Surgical Tape meets I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus!

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much better than i expected

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It becomes more and more fun as the twists pile up -- not entirely convincing, but diverting, like something concocted by a bright eighth-grader.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Harold sustains an unsettling tone and the graphic depiction of what goes on under the knife is, well, a surgery-phobic patient's worst nightmare

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The twist-happy screenplay holds together, and the actors around Christensen are better than they have to be: not only reliable hands like Lena Olin and Arliss Howard, but also a perfectly cast Jessica Alba, smartly playing with and against her looks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Makes one want to assume a state of mind opposite to the film's title.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Unloads a volley of plot twists that'll have you slapping your head in disbelief, provided you haven't figured them out by the end of Act I.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

While much of "Awake" simply doesn't work, there are just enough things on display that do to make you wish that someone had taken the time to elaborate on them

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Is this goofy, misguided movie enough to keep you "Awake?"Probably, but only if you're laughing during this unintentionally comical drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Engages the viewer from start to finish and boasts a handful of decent performances. Crazy but fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.75/5

Admittedly mediocre, this psychological thriller is nevertheless gripping in its reality-based terror.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Awake feels like an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode unfolding in slow motion, with each new revelation coming a reel or two after viewers have guessed it.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about a botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to match.

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The movie offers twist upon twist upon twist, with no actual plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The most vapid stars of our age, Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba, achieve total vapidosity in this jaw-dropping exercise in preposterosity from newcomer Joby Harold.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5