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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIt 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.
- 50RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzSleepless is one of those movies that needed to be a lot better or a lot worse to make much of an impression.
- 50We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoOdar 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.
- 42The Film StageJohn FinkThe Film StageJohn FinkSleepless 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.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanSleepless 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.
- 40Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangA stylish surface goes only so far to disguise the fact that we’re being sold some pretty cut-rate goods.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckNever rising above the level of generic B-movie, Sleepless represents the sort of disposable fare typically dropped into theaters in January.
- 25TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe 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.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichIf Sleepless feels like the microwaved leftovers of a dish that was designed to be swallowed whole, Foxx is the frozen part in the middle, the bite that makes you regret that someone tried to heat this up in the first place.
- 20The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottSleepless, directed by Baran bo Odar, sets a low bar for itself, and then trips over it.