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If it doesn't completely avoid thriller clichés, Before I Go to Sleep still offers a stylish, fast-paced, and well-acted diversion.
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Kidman and Firth are both excellent in their sadness and savagery, and Joffe builds tension far better than most of the horror movies available at your local Cineplex this Halloween weekend. Oct 31, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Kidman and Firth are both excellent in their sadness and savagery, and Joffe builds tension far better than most of the horror movies available at your local Cineplex this Halloween weekend.
Kyle Anderson
There's no edge, no pulp, no grit under its fingernails. Oct 31, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
There's no edge, no pulp, no grit under its fingernails.
Brian Tallerico
It's shallow, it's silly, it's pat. It's... forgettable. Oct 31, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's shallow, it's silly, it's pat. It's... forgettable.
Stephen Whitty
Throbbing musical crescendos and flickery flashbacks abound but apart from some outlandish plot machinations, nothing here is good or bad enough to be memorable. Oct 31, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Throbbing musical crescendos and flickery flashbacks abound but apart from some outlandish plot machinations, nothing here is good or bad enough to be memorable.
Liam Lacey
With luck, Kidman will erase this inept thriller from her memory as quickly as it leaves theaters. Oct 31, 2014 | Full Review…
With luck, Kidman will erase this inept thriller from her memory as quickly as it leaves theaters.
Ella Taylor
It isn't Hitchcock, but it will do. Oct 31, 2014 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
It isn't Hitchcock, but it will do.
Tom Long
Lumbered with the job of adapting a readily disposable summer read, Joffe applies the bare minimum of verve and panache required to lift Watson's hackneyed story of amnesia off the page. Apr 2, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Lumbered with the job of adapting a readily disposable summer read, Joffe applies the bare minimum of verve and panache required to lift Watson's hackneyed story of amnesia off the page.
Daniel Green
Before I go to Sleep is a solid psychological thriller which works on many levels. It is a taut, succinctly-told story that keeps you guessing throughout its concise running time, thanks in no small part to its three protagonists. Mar 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Before I go to Sleep is a solid psychological thriller which works on many levels. It is a taut, succinctly-told story that keeps you guessing throughout its concise running time, thanks in no small part to its three protagonists.
Paula Fleri-Soler
There are limits to how much control the men directing can exert. Jan 7, 2019 | Full Review…
There are limits to how much control the men directing can exert.
Tara Judah
Before I Go To Sleep is yet another wannabe sex-thriller with the kind of maddeningly vague premise that studios love because it gives the audience absolutely nothing to go on, thereby nullifying any expectations. Dec 11, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Before I Go To Sleep is yet another wannabe sex-thriller with the kind of maddeningly vague premise that studios love because it gives the audience absolutely nothing to go on, thereby nullifying any expectations.
Di Golding
The principal three actors play their parts well and there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes, just leave all thoughts of comparison out of your mind, this is not Memento and nor does it need to be. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
The principal three actors play their parts well and there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes, just leave all thoughts of comparison out of your mind, this is not Memento and nor does it need to be.
Rosalynn Try-Hane
The film ends up being an overly emotional film which focuses an astonishing amount of time on watching Christine cry. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
The film ends up being an overly emotional film which focuses an astonishing amount of time on watching Christine cry.
Deirdre Crimmins
Okay thriller. I liked it more than the book. But there was something a bit lacking. Not as bad as some reviews imply though. Decent amount of suspense and good acting.
Super Reviewer
Very interesting concept that gives you the story. The movie itself is a little dull, even boring at times. The acting was good but without the consistency in presentation the film is lacking.
"Before I Go to Sleep" starts with Christine(Nicole Kidman) waking up in a bed naked with no idea of where she is, nor who she has woken up next to or pretty much the last fifteen years of her life. As Ben(Colin Firth) introduces himself to her as her husband, he points out that she has amnesia which resets her memory every night and was caused by an auto accident she was in. After Ben goes to work, Christine gets a call from Dr. Nasch(Mark Strong) who tells her that she has been seeing him for the past few weeks and to check the camera at the bottom of her closet for confirmation. Oh, and her amnesia is actually the result of being brutally attacked... More Hitchcock than Nolan, "Before I Go to Sleep" takes full advantage of its limited setting and point of view to effectively tell a creepy mystery that explores Chrstine's past through most of its length. The shame is that at some point the shoe must drop which in this case is a pair of size 12 loafers, confirming some of the uneasy suspicions I had been nursing up to that point. So, while the ensuing revelation and what follows do not entirely work, they do not entirely derail the story either, mostly because of the emotional payoff at the end and the way the movie was cast, especially Nicole Kidman.
Three exceptional actors but not an exceptional movie!
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