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NUMBERS
Box Office: $67,181,105
VHS Rentals: $18,660,000
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CONSENSUS
Driven by Pacino's performance, Insomnia is a smart and riveting psychological drama.
CAST & CREW
Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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SYNOPSIS
In a remote Alaskan town called Nightmute, the murder of a teenage girl has shocked the tight-knit community. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, some violence, and brief nudity
RUNTIME
1 hour, 58 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: May 24, 2002
Video: Oct 15, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Dramas, Psychodrama, Suspense, Thriller, Murder, Police, Alaska, Murder Investigations, Teenage Girls
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Insomnia Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "Insomnia is one of the year's best films and Pacino gives one of his most daring, and complicated, performances."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Director Nolan shows here he can handle clever material with a flair."
-- Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"Registers as a superb, intricate, emotional thriller, complete with an ending that complements the film's intelligence."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Remarkable for its intelligence and intensity."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
 "meanders between its powerful moments."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"Nolan bravely treads where few American films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"While Insomnia is in many ways a conventional, even predictable remake, Nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends (it) stimulating depth."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"The new Insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor, and when it does elect to head off in its own direction, it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últimos tiempos."
-- Enrique Buchichio, URUGUAY TOTAL
"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."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"There's nothing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
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"It proves quite compelling as an intense, brooding character study."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"The hook is the drama within the drama, as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"It'll keep you wide awake and ... very tense."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived Dormer, his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical."
-- Jason Best, BBCI FILMS
"The acting alone is worth the price of admission."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang, shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion. But the performances of Pacino, Williams, and Swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"A psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by Al Pacino."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Even with all those rough edges safely sanded down, the American Insomnia is still pretty darned good."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"An artful, intelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre."
-- Shay Casey, DAILY-REVIEWS
"Insomnia is involving. Still, I thought it could have been more."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
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Avg. Rating: 8.3/10 |
"Insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original, but it doesn't disgrace it, either."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"This remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise: Al Pacino loathing Robin Williams."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Unlike most remakes, the Nolan Insomnia is not a pale retread, but a re-examination of the material, like a new production of a good play."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A deftly entertaining film, smartly played and smartly directed."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Runs on the pure adrenalin of Pacino's performance."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"It's gripping entertainment in a popular vein -- the police procedural -- that nevertheless follows no preconceived formulas."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Allows us to hope that Nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"A thriller whose style, structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story, you cannot separate them."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence, of good guys and bad, and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"You see Robin Williams and psycho killer, and you think, hmmmmm. You see the movie and you think, zzzzzzzzz."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
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"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?”"
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Insomnia" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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