Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Leofwine_draca Wow, the French certainly know how to make their thrillers! Following from the excellent crime/suspense/thriller POINT BLANK comes SLEEPLESS NIGHT, a film whose major storyline takes place in a single nightclub in a single night. Into this setting are thrown a roguish hero, his partner, good cops, bad cops, gangsters, drug dealers, a kidnapped kid, henchmen, and a few hundred revellers. What could possibly go wrong?Nothing, it transpires - at least in terms of film-making. Because, believe me, this is exciting, excellent stuff, up there with the best of the 'intense thriller' genre (which includes films such as THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, NO WAY OUT, the BOURNE trilogy, etc). There isn't a great deal of fighting - apart from one frenetic bust-up - but the editing is super-fast and the storyline never lets you go for a second. The amount of energy that's gone into this movie is spectacular indeed.By the time the film ends you feel up as exhausted as the hero did, because this is tight, focused, compelling and however else you'd like to describe it. Great acting, great cinematography, a film made by people who know exactly what they're doing and how to deliver a knuckle-scraping, heart-pumping thrill-ride of a movie. I couldn't rate it more highly and I can't wait to see it again...and again...and again.

Objectivity If you ever watched Kevin Costner in "No Way Out" and loved it, then watch this upgrade.Wow, wow, wow ! I'll say just one thing : pay real good attention to the dialogues in the kitchen.I intended to watch half this film one night and the rest the next night, as I needed to get up early for work. Forget that !!! This film grabbed me by the throat so intensely I had to watch it till the end and risk a bad day at work.Top notch, from start to finish. The only time you will be able to relax and catch your breath is when you watch the opening credits !

OJT The latter years I've gotten more and more impressed with French action movies. At least those I've come too see here in Norway, and that's quite a few. I would go so far as saying that the French are now the leading action flick makers, and by far has passed both the Americans and the Brits. The French movies I've seen recently is full of action, we'll played and has a great touch of realism, which very often is not the case with the films coming out of Hollywood.This film, "Sleepless night", is about to be remade in Hollywood I understand, and there's really no wonder why. This is action from start to finish, and the best action I've seen since "Headhunters". It's tight, exciting, down right dirty action, and still very realistically told. It's a drug heist gone wrong, exploding into a nightmare. Many of there has been with corrupt cops, which is a great genre in itself amongst these films. I guess it's a great premise that you don't know who you can trust, or rather, like in this. You know who you can't trust. Anyone!We meet a divorced cop getting into trouble after a rather bad decision. He is seen after committing a theft of a load of drugs. As a direct following if this, his beloved teenage son is kidnapped by the gangster missing their drugs. This starts off a nightmare which you really shouldn't miss!A roller coaster of bad decisions and bad people. Filmed in dirty raw, grainy film, stressed music, with hand-held camera, which I've rarely seen more well done. Not annoying, just realistically adding to the nerve of the story. A treat of a film which sucks you up right from the start. I'll keep checking out French action movies!

fulsere A very nice movie, with a perfect plot, very good actors and a big direction. An old American movie,"No Way Out", (Italian title is "Senza via di scampo") is in my opinion the most similar movie for rhythm and perfection of the plot. You can't stop to see, and you don't know never how the movie will can finish, can happen absolutely all. And the end is perfect too, a very, very nice and clever solution. The bad guys are very, very bad, there are some little moment of humor and the movie goes without a moment to stop ! Go to see and/or buy the movie if you like the crime-movies, it's surely a masterpiece of this kind! Or wait an year or less to see the remake that surely Hollywood will do very soon, even with Denzel Washington in the lead-role...