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Critics Consensus: If it doesn't completely avoid thriller clichés, Before I Go to Sleep still offers a stylish, fast-paced, and well-acted diversion.
Critic Consensus: If it doesn't completely avoid thriller clichés, Before I Go to Sleep still offers a stylish, fast-paced, and well-acted diversion.
All Critics (113) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (73)
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.
There's no edge, no pulp, no grit under its fingernails.
It's shallow, it's silly, it's pat. It's... forgettable.
Throbbing musical crescendos and flickery flashbacks abound but apart from some outlandish plot machinations, nothing here is good or bad enough to be memorable.
With luck, Kidman will erase this inept thriller from her memory as quickly as it leaves theaters.
It isn't Hitchcock, but it will do.
There are limits to how much control the men directing can exert.
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.
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.
The film ends up being an overly emotional film which focuses an astonishing amount of time on watching Christine cry.
A perfectly serviceable thriller, with a few good twists and some properly frightening moments.
Sleep is expressly designed to make you a nervous wreck... Frankly, the film does all this awfully well. But working against it is an enough-already-we-get-it finale, plus a sense that we haven't been pulled into Kidman's plight as much as we could be.
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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