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Awake has an interesting premise but would have benefited from tighter performances and more efficient direction and editing.
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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. Dec 6, 2007 | Rating: D+
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.
Scott Tobias
With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved. Dec 3, 2007 | Rating: 2/4
With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved.
Liam Lacey
[Joby] Harold's script has a surprise or three in it, a biggy near the end. But he's a director with no poker face. He tips his hand early and often. Dec 3, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
[Joby] Harold's script has a surprise or three in it, a biggy near the end. But he's a director with no poker face. He tips his hand early and often.
Roger Moore
Awake is a pleasing if negligible diversion. Dec 3, 2007 | Full Review…
Awake is a pleasing if negligible diversion.
Stephen Hunter
The plot has more holes in it than a tea bag and the film should come with a warning label: don't go see with anyone with even a modicum of medical knowledge, because they'll surely spend the film huffing and rolling their eyes skyward. Dec 3, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The plot has more holes in it than a tea bag and the film should come with a warning label: don't go see with anyone with even a modicum of medical knowledge, because they'll surely spend the film huffing and rolling their eyes skyward.
Bruce DeMara
If you have an ax to grind with someone who harbors a morbid fear of surgery, you couldn't design a better revenge than taking them to see Awake. Dec 3, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/4
If you have an ax to grind with someone who harbors a morbid fear of surgery, you couldn't design a better revenge than taking them to see Awake.
Jan Stuart
A gripping thriller with a good twist and a fantastic medical plot device, Awake is a good watch and succeeds in providing an uneasy feeling as the knives go in... Oct 20, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
A gripping thriller with a good twist and a fantastic medical plot device, Awake is a good watch and succeeds in providing an uneasy feeling as the knives go in...
Matt Hudson
so far fetched that I couldn't swallow the story Sep 4, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
so far fetched that I couldn't swallow the story
Kevin Carr
Writer-director Joby Harold's debut is stylishly self-assured and suspenseful enough to quicken the pulse. Jun 5, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Writer-director Joby Harold's debut is stylishly self-assured and suspenseful enough to quicken the pulse.
Rossiter Drake
Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible. May 2, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible.
Brian Holcomb
Imagine it's a comedy and pray for the end. Apr 25, 2008 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Imagine it's a comedy and pray for the end.
Matt Glasby
Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same. Apr 6, 2008 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.
James Dyer
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