Synopsis
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.
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Cast
- Gina RodriguezJill
- Ariana GreenblattMatilda
- Lucius HoyosNoah
- Shamier AndersonDodge
- Jennifer Jason LeighDr. Murphy
- Finn JonesBrian
- Frances FisherDoris
- Gil BellowsDr. Katz
- Sergio Di ZioDumb Jim
- Barry PepperPastor
Recommendations
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Los Angeles Times
If the end-of-the-world genre seems downright somnambulant lately, Awake is jolting proof a fiendishly clever twist can shake it from its doldrums. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Awake has just enough scares and strangeness, plus a sense of dread and paranoia, to make its horror creepy and enjoyable. It’s not a flawless thriller, but enough different elements click into place, like Rodriguez and Greenblatt’s performances. - 60
Paste Magazine
There are a few tense moments, good performances and a fair variety of settings to make it feel like a complete journey. But by having some science-fiction cause for why nobody sleeps, it’s not about actual insomnia in any way that’s relatable to anyone. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Awake fails only in the sense that it’s a movie in one note, and thus its story only knows one direction, which is downhill. - 42
The A.V. Club
Awake becomes the saga of a mom’s redemption. Rodriguez works hard to make this personal angle compelling, exhibiting mama-bear ferocity, but the film’s ultra-bleak premise doesn’t cooperate. - 41
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
So for those asking the obvious: Yes, Awake should put you to sleep rather quickly. - 25
The Playlist
Awake is not even smart enough to play a little dumb, and so even the silliest, most gratuitous parts involving very cranky humans turning into killing machines are anticlimatic and frankly boring. The apocalypse has rarely been this abysmal. - 20
The New York Times
There is no getting around it: Mark Raso’s Awake is bad. But at least it’s so bad that it’s often ludicrously laughable: Netflix may well have a cult turkey on its hands.
