I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 85 Fresh: 36 Rotten:49 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 16, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $212,359
Synopsis: Cars full of fast-talking British hoods and rain-soaked city streets in the dead of night--that's the stuff of which Mike Hodges's (CROUPIER) impossibly cool neo-noir gangster thriller is made. Clive Owen plays Graham, a former top mobster who has since retired to a nomadic life in the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Malcolm McDowell, Charlotte Rampling, Frank Stott
Director: Mike Hodges
Screenwriter: Trevor Preston
Producer: Michael Corrente, Michael Kaplan
Composer: Simon Fisher Turner
Screenwriter: Trevor Preston
Producer: Michael Corrente, Michael Kaplan
Composer: Simon Fisher Turner
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06/24/06
While the performances are excellent and the Get Carter-in-reverse plot is intriguing, this is a film where atmospherics triumph over the script.
04/19/05
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead deftly traces the sad, steady pulse just under the skin of things . . . the lingering images etching out their own fitting epitaph.
02/10/05
...ended up sending us to slumberland a good deal sooner than the title implied.
01/04/05
Atmospheric post-noir film of the London underworld that never amounts to much of anything.
11/18/04
Next time Mike Hodges wants to make a movie, I would suggest he shoot it in total darkness and drop the dialogue.
09/24/04
[S]trip[s] the mobster film down to its bare essentials, and the result is stark and relentless...
09/08/04
...a kind of inside-out noir, a stately film about the sad progress of a diminished and sad but still frightful and dangerous monster.
08/23/04
Hodges and Preston have a commendable attitude, but with the thin story and shallow characters, even the right idea doesn't seem as interesting as it should be.
08/20/04
... Hodges is the kind of director who can breathe new life into old material with an offhand, deceptively minimalist approach.
08/13/04
In the end, it is the complex aura surrounding Owen's character...that stay with the viewer long after the threads of the story have unraveled in one's mind.
08/13/04
Though the film is your basic revenge tale, it moves at such a snail's pace that the visceral excitement of the genre is nowhere to be found.
08/12/04
A film whose pacing gives new meaning to the term 'sluggish,' and actually makes the charismatic Owen seem boring.
08/08/04
This sad, dark movie moves across the screen like a sleepwalker, aloof and belonging neither to this world nor the next.
08/08/04
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