Synopsis
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has got a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters get T, Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night, he will have to rescue his son T (whom they got), evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.
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Cast
- Jamie FoxxVincent Downs
- Michelle MonaghanJennifer Bryant
- Dermot MulroneyStanley Rubino
- Scoot McNairyRob Novak
- David HarbourDoug Dennison
- T.I.Sean Cass
- Gabrielle UnionDena
- Octavius J. JohnsonThomas
- Inder KumarDoctor at Hospital
- Sala BakerBennik
Recommendations
- 67
The A.V. Club
It might not be Donald Westlake, but it does its thing: meaningless, nonstop violence and movement, enacted by a large cast of characters who are only looking out to survive into the next scene. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Sleepless is one of those movies that needed to be a lot better or a lot worse to make much of an impression. - 50
We Got This Covered
Odar does his best to manipulate Las Vegas’ seedy underbelly (City of Sin, after all), but so much of Sleepless feels like recycled, seen-it-before action genre gristle. The stuff you chew while hoping a little fatty goodness is left. - 42
The Film Stage
Sleepless isn’t intellectually offensive or even all that embarrassing for the talent involved. Beat by beat, right down to its twists, it’s a predictable January thriller. - 40
Variety
Sleepless is a propulsive thin exercise, “energetic” but tedious, the kind of January movie that Jamie Foxx should have permanently graduated from. 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. It’s far from incompetent, but it’s a who-cares? thriller. - 40
Los Angeles Times
A stylish surface goes only so far to disguise the fact that we’re being sold some pretty cut-rate goods. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Never rising above the level of generic B-movie, Sleepless represents the sort of disposable fare typically dropped into theaters in January. - 25
TheWrap
The existence of a movie like Sleepless constitutes definite proof that there aren’t enough good scripts to go around; Foxx, Monaghan, Mulroney and Union (who finally gets introduced into the action in the silliest way possible) deserve much better than this.
