If HBO aired a show called Fake Detective, the results might resemble Sleepless, a cop movie so. This remake of the 2011 French thriller Sleepless Night (Nuit blanche) is. If you can suspend your belief and just sit back and enjoy the ride, I think you will find you'll very much enjoy this film. So trite as to teeter on parody, this Vegas-set ticking-clock thriller is a shouty bore. Jamie Foxx plays a crooked cop desperate to save his kidnapped son in Sleepless, a remake of a 2011 French thriller. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. If you ever find yourself bored watching this movie then I would suggest action movies are certainly not for you. Follows Jamie Foxx as undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. It never lost my interest once and it knew its limitations. As just a straight up entertainment package I really enjoyed 'Sleepless'. The characters were actually very well written almost entirely across the board. I also enjoyed the fact that you could never be entirely sure about whether or not a character was loyal or not. It was like a fun house by the end with all the nooks and crannies being explored and visited by different characters. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation. After a car chase and shootout, the two come into the possession of twenty-five kilos of cocaine, but Vincent soon learns it was intended for casino boss Stanley Rubino (DERMOT MULRONEY) when the latters goons knife him and kidnap his sixteen. Follows Jamie Foxx as undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. I loved the fact that almost the entire movie takes place in one setting. Vincent Downs (JAMIE FOXX) and Sean Cass (T.I.) are homicide detectives working the Las Vegas beat. The action begins almost immediately and basically never lets up. There's rarely a dull moment in 'Sleepless'. You can notice these things, but I think you are being very tough if you are judging your entire opinion on them. Admittedly throughout the film I kept thinking to myself those kinds of things, like this guy got stabbed a long time ago and has had about 10 fights since and still seems to have superhuman strength. I have a feeling that is a lot of what is going on with 'Sleepless' and people's opinions of it. So when people come out of a movie and say they hated it because "x" would never happen or "y" didn't make sense or when a certain character did something they should have done something else, I don't really buy that as a reason to ever hate a movie. The former Las Vegan stars as an undercover Vegas detective in Sleepless, which debuted its first trailer Wednesday. Thus it would be incredibly difficult to make an entertaining movie without having quite a few illogical things happen. The reasons that the things we see in movies rarely happen in real life is because logic generally takes over and prevents these things from actually happening. The action takes place from dusk till dawn, mostly at a Vegas nightclub, hence the title, and there are some outrageously nonsensical plot absurdities, the most baffling being the moment when Vincent, in disguise and wearing a baseball cap, looks down in the club elevator so Bryant won’t spot him and then … looks up! So she spots him! And the chase begins! Because otherwise the plot wouldn’t move forward! A touch of humour would have helped here, instead of reflex batterings.Here's the thing - if movies never suspended belief, they would be both pointless and incredibly dull. The bad guys take Vincent’s innocent teenage son hostage to get the drugs back and meanwhile, smart internal affairs officer Bryant (Monaghan) is on his trail. Foxx plays Vincent, a cop who steals a load of cocaine belonging to sinister druglord Rubino (Mulroney) who in turn owes this merchandise to the even nastier criminal Novak (McNairy). Jamie Foxx brings every atom of his star power, attempting to sell us this violent Vegas-set action-thriller – remade from a French film from 2011 called Nuit Blanche – and so does the supporting cast, including Gabrielle Union, Michelle Monaghan, Scoot McNairy and Dermot Mulroney.
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