Perhaps a little too slow and not much of a payoff, but this latest from the infrequent Mike Hodges will do until he's ready for another.
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07/22/04
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:36
Rotten:49
Average Rating:5.5/10
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.... [More]
Starring: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Malcolm McDowell, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Mike Hodges
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Reviews for I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Hodges may have hit the jackpot with Croupier but here he comes up snake eyes in the worst way.
10/29/03
Precisely the kind of film that should be seen by insomniacs at some ungodly hour of the night. (The title itself supports this theory.)
07/09/04
Hodges is clearly attempting a restrained, art-film ellipticism by letting us know very little about his characters, but because everyone's working hard at being underworld-movie cool, we come away utterly empty-handed.
06/15/04
Top CriticHodges cuts the film like a diamond, but it's just an exercise in cut glass, an impressive surface that only looks tough.
07/16/04
more ghost story than revenge tale
06/26/04
This sad, dark movie moves across the screen like a sleepwalker, aloof and belonging neither to this world nor the next.
08/08/04
A film whose pacing gives new meaning to the term 'sluggish,' and actually makes the charismatic Owen seem boring.
08/08/04
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
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead may take its place with Get Carter as a classic British gangster film.
10/29/03
Top CriticThis is a movie that will put ADD sufferers to sleep, while simultaneously rewarding those who have the patience to see it through.
06/14/04
Top CriticFeels undernourished in plot, characterization, and dialogue, and what should play with minimalist high tension is allowed to sag lower and lower until it simply grounds out.
07/09/04
Top CriticStylish filmmaking and philosophical musings can only disguise a lack of movement for so long. The trouble with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is that it's already dead...
07/06/04
A scarred-up, bare-knuckled fighter in Palookaville, pretty in its pug-ugly grace, and dangerous, too.
07/22/04
Hodges builds a quiet and atmospheric sense of foreboding. But it never takes off.
02/13/04
... Hodges is the kind of director who can breathe new life into old material with an offhand, deceptively minimalist approach.
08/13/04
Minimalist pulp that's been overcooked.
01/18/04
Even Clive Owen can't bring the level of this movie up from an average revenge flick.
07/30/04
Unless you fancy movies constructed of pure style, this one could put you to sleep.
07/23/04
Hodges (Get Carter, Croupier) delivers another splendidly stylish thriller that's full of dark atmosphere and discordant notes.
07/16/04
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