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04/25/08
Awake (2007)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:13
Rotten:41
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Awake has an interesting premise but would have benefited from tighter performances and more efficient direction and editing.
Theatrical Release:04-04-2008
Synopsis: Writer/director Joby Harold's debut feature, AWAKE, is an unsettling thriller that highlights a deeply troubling medical problem. "Anesthetic awareness" is a rare but dangerously prevalent... [More]
Starring: Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin
Director: Joby Harold
Reviews for Awake
Top CriticLess painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.
04/06/08
Top CriticThe movie offers twist upon twist upon twist, with no actual plot.
12/05/07
Awake feels like an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode unfolding in slow motion, with each new revelation coming a reel or two after viewers have guessed it.
12/06/07
The movie tries going for a laugh or two. It even makes stabs at irony. But since none of the story is suspenseful, remotely believable, or, at the very least, cheaply entertaining, who cares?
12/02/07
Awake manages a weak pulse for a time but dies ultimately in its makers' hands.
12/02/07
Accuracy is not the point. Suspense is. And from the moment Clay realizes he is not fully under anesthesia and can hear and feel everything that is happening, the movie had me.
12/02/07
Top CriticSe um ator admirável como Terrence Howard surge tão constrangedor neste longa, que chances teriam pobres aspirantes a intérpretes como Hayden Christensen e Jessica Alba?
04/04/08
Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible.
05/02/08
Go see Awake fully-caffeinated with a bunch of friends willing to yell back at the screen and cheer for Lena Olin whenever she appears. It's the right way to enjoy such an unintentionally camp piece of crap.
11/30/07
So screechingly obvious by the 15-minute mark that all the viewer is left to do for the remainder of the running time is wait around for the slow-witted machinations of the script to catch up.
12/01/07
Will he wake up? Will he die? Will his voice-over ever stop? Will the pain, the infernal pain, of this insufferable film ever end? All is revealed within 78 minutes, but it's doubtful you'll be awake.
12/03/07
Shot over two years ago, released on the least-attended movie weekend of the year, and withheld from press screenings. Yowsa...one goofy thriller that can barely sustain a running time, much less provide heart-stopping chills.
11/30/07
While much of "Awake" simply doesn't work, there are just enough things on display that do to make you wish that someone had taken the time to elaborate on them
12/14/07
The plot grows increasingly ludicrous as additional details are revealed.
12/01/07
The twist-happy screenplay holds together, and the actors around Christensen are better than they have to be: not only reliable hands like Lena Olin and Arliss Howard, but also a perfectly cast Jessica Alba, smartly playing with and against her looks.
01/10/08
Unloads a volley of plot twists that'll have you slapping your head in disbelief, provided you haven't figured them out by the end of Act I.
12/16/07
It's not a great movie by any means, but as a throwaway thriller with a terrific mid-movie twist, it's not bad way to spend 84 minutes.
12/03/07
While the film kept my interest to a degree, it was more out of sheer curiosity of how much sillier writer/director Joby Harold would make the thing.
11/30/07
an exercise in dramatic paralysis.
12/02/07
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