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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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2.5/5 | "Pacino slips in and out of a Southern accent so badly it seems like a joke he's pulling on us... Robin Williams plays Mork on heroin." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
| "Sans hoo-ha!, [Pacino] gives a perversely compelling performance, part devious, part fearful, and part ravaged." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
B- | "If you saw the Norwegian version there's no compelling reason to see this weaker one." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3.5/4 | "A skillfully complex and engrossing character study...A challenging piece of work that does not just thrill, but provokes thought out of its attentive evocations." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2.5/4 | "Dormer's eerie descent into the film's Alaskan burb feels like the start of a very eerie episode of "Fantasy Island."" |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
| "Uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últimos tiempos." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B+ | "Gripping and forceful." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Both a picture in the Hitchcockian tradition designed to purely tingle your senses & a thinking person’s drama that constantly defies you to ask, “What would you do?”" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B+ | "A slow, moody, careful character study." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
B | "Doesn't really generate much suspense...but it's so well-made that it creates a powerful mood of melancholy and dread." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
| "A psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by Al Pacino." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "Insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original, but it doesn't disgrace it, either." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "Nolan shows that his achievement in Memento was no fluke, although this time around he plays it safer" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "There are "strange things done in the midnight sun" by a killer -- and by a cop -- in this taut remake from the director of Memento." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
3/4 | "The hook is the drama within the drama, as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
8/10 | "Insomnia is involving. Still, I thought it could have been more." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
C | "Without the benefit of a clever narrative device, Christopher Nolan's left with his merely adequate skill as a filmmaker to breathe life into a generic police procedural." |
| Matinee Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
2/4 | "The Hollywood remake feels oddly castrated when compared to the original." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
7/10 | "The film is a solid, character-driven piece, with a terrific visual look and a good score, but it's not quite the brilliant, edge of your seat thriller that it seems it also wants to be." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
8/10 | "If you enjoy taut murder mysteries with deep character predicaments, this film will likely appeal to your tastes." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
7/10 | "There is little actual mystery to Insomnia, but there's a good deal of suspense. The movie is taut and gripping." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
3 | "The film is creepy, and not because of any one particular scene or moment, but because Nolan takes us, body and soul, into a place that all is illuminated all the time" |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
2/4 | "It's paced well, filmed well, and acted well, and it looks like everyone managed to pick up their paychecks well, too." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
| "This isn’t a classic cop movie after all..." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
A- | "Pacino and Williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other, just as their characters do in the film. What results is the best performance from either in years." |
| Countingdown.com |
| Larry Carroll |
B | "This "Insomnia" is bigger and glossier than the original, but the Norwegian version's grittier edge gave more darkness to its sunshine-provoked protagonist" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
8.5/10 | "Insomnia es la unión de dos hombres que desbordan talento, en un thriller policiaco." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
3/5 | "Nolan's intention was clearly to cast the material in a more conventional Hollywood mold without turning it into namby-pamby nonsense, and he succeeds admirably." |
| Film Journal International |
| Maitland McDonagh |
2.5/4 | "Nolan has not made a poor movie... but he has made a poor remake." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
| "Pacino’s Will Dormer, taciturn and tormented Los Angeles cop, is his best performance in years." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/5 | "Held together by Al Pacino's Oscar-worthy performance." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "Not only is Insomnia one of the most intense police procedurals ever filmed, it's also one of the most riveting moral dramas I've ever seen." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
4/5 | "A complex, thoughtful thriller." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
5/5 | "This director has an unerring knack for arresting imagery and disorienting narrative." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
A- | "Its near brilliance comes in the way it makes use of its material, creating a picture that's anything but run-of-the-mill." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B+ | "A very powerful, thought-provoking film with lot of psychological depth." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "...a good film in its own right, not just a poor American remake of a better foreign film." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
4.5/5 | "One of the most satisfying crime thrillers in years. See it. And then give the original a rent. It's only fair." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
B+ | "Nolan bravely treads where few American films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity..." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
B+ | "Skillfully blurs the already thin line between cop and crook." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
3.5/4 | "Very good..." |
| sbs.is |
| Stefan Birgir Stefansson |
B+ | "At least you can care about the characters and the events — something I couldn’t say after watching Memento, for all its brilliant storytelling." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
2/4 | "There's nothing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
4.5/5 | "The screenplay by Hillary Seitz provides leading actors Robin Williams and Al Pacino with many big, challenging moments." |
| NutzWorld |
| Blake French |
3/10 | Read review |
| Modamag.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
6/10 | Read review |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
8/10 | Read review |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
| Read review |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
| Read review |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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