The movie is also not very plausible, in a way that cuts down on its entertainment value watching “Sleepless,” you have to keep dimming your perceptions downward. And that’s likely to be reflected in an underwhelming box-office performance. It’s far from incompetent, but it’s a who-cares? thriller. Foxx is too good an actor - taut and committed - to phone in his performance, yet that hardly matters, since the whole movie is phoned in. A remake of the 2011 French/Belgian thriller “Sleepless Night (Nuit Blanche),” “Sleepless” is a propulsive thin exercise, “energetic” but tedious, the kind of January movie that Jamie Foxx should have permanently graduated from. Vincent is in deep hot water, but there’s one problem that transcends all the others: He’s stuck in a movie that’s such a terse, minimalist litany of cop-movie clichés, with a script that minces no words because it barely bothers to come up with any, that almost nothing about his situation is very enjoyable. She’s got plans to expose him, and after he stashes the drugs over a casino men’s-room stall, she goes in there and takes them, removing his only power card. Then there’s the Internal Affairs agent ( Michelle Monaghan) who is sure that Vincent is a dirty cop. But since Vincent is supposed to be delivering the kid to a high-school football game, he has to keep lying to his ex-wife (Gabrielle Union) about the son’s whereabouts (it beats saying, “Uh, sorry, he’s tied up in a kitchen closet somewhere”). To secure and retrieve the drugs, Stanley Rubino (Dermot Mulroney), a natty weasel of a casino owner, has kidnapped Vincent’s 16-year-old son, Thomas (Octavius J. Vincent is now carrying 25 kilos of cocaine (street value: $7 million) that could get him killed. He and his partner (played by the rapper T.I.) just killed two crooks they shouldn’t have, and they also ripped off a more dangerous drug dealer than the one they thought they were working. Check out the trailer below.In “ Sleepless,” a stylishly hollow crime thriller set in Las Vegas, Jamie Foxx plays an undercover cop named Vincent Downs who is up to his goatee in Big Problems. Sleepless will hit theaters early next year on February 24, 2017. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice." When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. "Sleepless stars Foxx as undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. The movie is written by Straight Outta Compton's Andrea Berloff, and is actually a remake of the French film Nuit Blanche, which is written and directed by Frédéric Jardin. Sleepless serves as the American directorial debut for Swiss filmmaker Baran Bo Odar. Mission: Impossible III star Michelle Monaghan Stranger Things co star David Harbour and Gabrielle Union, alongside Foxx. Ultimately, the action thriller seems to be a combination of Taken, The Departed and Law Abiding Citizen. His son gets kidnapped by one of the gangsters (played by Scoot McNairy) Downs has been working with, with that same gangster also having control over the police department Downs is a part of. The trailer for Jamie Foxx's forthcoming film Sleepless dropped recently, and although it kind of gives away a good portion of the movie's premise, it looks like it'll be worth a watch.įoxx portrays undercover detective Vincent Downs, who is posing as a corrupt cop, which leads to a series of unfortunate events happening to him in the process.
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