Company Netflix with the diligence of a vacuum cleaner, he selects more or less interesting projects, trying to adhere to the principle “better more and more often”. Naturally, in production on-line, the overall quality of the products suffers, and the original scripts come out too raw. Movie “Sleepless”From the director Mark Raso with a star from the last century Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an unexpected idea for a worldwide catastrophe.
According to the plot idea, one day, due to a flash in the sun, all highly sensitive equipment burns out, and people, having received a brain reboot, stop sleeping. Since every day a person becomes more absent-minded from insomnia, and the level of aggression and hallucinations grows, scientists have only a few days to find a cure.
The main character Jill performed Gina Rodriguez along with her daughter Matilda, who retained the ability to sleep, throughout the film, she escapes from religious fanatics, bandits and cannibals, heading to the research laboratory.
Before the start of the disaster, Jill, who works as a security guard at a medical company, earns money by selling discarded drugs to drug dealers, occasionally seeing the children who live with her grandmother. Other heroes have their own personal problems. And only after a great catastrophe, the family comes out on top.
The authors of the picture could unexpectedly play on the concept of loss of sleep, but instead, alas, they begin to diligently copy the ideas of other projects, in the end sliding towards the simplest solution. The answer, clues to which are scattered throughout the film, is more than obvious. The final excerpt with the violent insanity and “healing” of Jill’s heroine causes only an awkward smile.
“Sleepless”- this is the case when an original and interesting concept sinks under the yoke of stereotyped and not the most interesting solutions, and the actors are not able to pull out a flat and too secondary product. In general, if you have absolutely nothing to do and you love disaster films, you can devote a free evening to “Sleepless”. Everyone else can safely skip this project – you will not lose anything.
Author: Alexander Loginov (xtr)
5/10
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