Insomnia

2002 "A tough cop. A brilliant killer. An unspeakable crime."
7.2| 1h58m| R| en| More Info
Released: 24 May 2002 Released
Producted By: Section Eight
Country: United States of America
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Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

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cinemajesty Movie Review: "Insomnia" (2002)Christopher Nolan, at age 31, finally receiving his Hollywood ticket to the major league at Warner Bros. Pictures in spring 2001 after making "furore" with memorable independent thriller "Memento" starring Guy Pearce to be adviced to direct star-actor Al Pacino, reviving inspector-seeking-the-truth genre hits as "Serpico" (1973) directed by Sidney Lumet or "Sea of Love" (1989) directed by Harold Becker and unusual intensely-dark playing Robin Williams (1951-2014) to full mind binding nemesis character confrontations of two stunning staccato-cut on-foot chase sequences in frozen, exotic blue/white reflecting glaciers in further highly-atmospheric on-set exteriors locations in Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada; when executive producers Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney in favors for a Warner Bros. remake of a rarely-known less accomplished original thriller from 1997 starring Stellan Skarsgard as sleepless delusional inspector Jonas Engström under the lucky-strike direction by Erik Skjoldbjaerg, realized at age 32, where Christopher Nolan exceeds the original with an entrusted group of production crew key people as cinematographer Wally Pfister and score composer David Julyan to deliver more than necessary coverage in a rather comfortable 10-week-period of principal photography in summer 2001 for an unusual late release in May 24th 2002 with the director's final-cut-denial clause due to respect to editor Dody Dorn, who lets supporting acting on high convictions running actress Hilary Swank become the furture star-actress to be fulfilled as streetwise femal boxer in Clint Eastwood directed Academy-Award-winning picture "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) also distributed by Warner Bros. Studios. © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
Kirpianuscus ...who remains, for long time after its end, like a smoke circle. the tension, pressure and need to escape from yourself. and the hunting , so different by other crime films. the admirable cast. and the genius of Nolan to propose a psychological war , using impressive actors for each role. a film remaining, for long time, in memory.
martinrking Strong performances, a captivating central conflict, and beautiful landscapes of Canada. Distracting plot holes take away from the experience: Pacino's character gets around Alaska as if he knows the state like the back of his hand. The ending is a dumb shoot-out. It's a disappointing conclusion for sure.
Asif Khan (asifahsankhan) Insomnia is directed by Christopher Nolan and was released in the year 2002. Walter Finch is the antagonist of the movie and is portrayed by Robin Williams. He is a really calm and cool villain who is always one step ahead of the hero, Will Domer (Al Pacino). Don't trust him by his innocent looks as he is capable of doing much harm that you can't even imagine. Even though Insomnia remains as one of the most underrated works of Nolan till date, Walter Finch is definitely one of the finest villains ever in the movies.Instead of darkness and shadow, the movie takes place in unforgiving, continuous brightness, the 24-hour daylight of a small town in Alaska in the summer months, where a teenage girl has been discovered beaten to death, her body showing signs of ritual killing. A grizzled LA detective is brought in to show the local cops how to take down a villain this scary – a detective who has accepted this godforsaken assignment because he is in trouble with the Internal Affairs department back in the big city. His investigation goes horrifically wrong and his bad conscience, his festering awareness of career mortality and his screwed-up circadian rhythms mean that he is driven slowly mad with sleep deprivation: a kind of fatal familial insomnia of the soul.Only those people who don't suffer from insomnia have the luxury of thinking it's a disturbing metaphor – when the simple physical condition itself is what is truly disturbing. So Al Pacino is inspired casting as the haggard detective Will Dormer, the policeman with the world's most ironic name. Nolan contrives a weirdly Inception dream- like chase between the two men across logs on a freezing river, and also sets up some terrific, Michael Mann-style head-to-head clashes as Dormer tells the creepy writer exactly what he thinks of him. "You have no motivation," snarls Pacino, You're about as mysterious to me as a blocked toilet is to a f*%king plumber!"