The life of a police officer, who has been sent to a distant town in Alaska with his friend, in order to find out the hidden truth behind the mysterious murder of a young teenager girl, has turned down, after the accident shoot for his friend, during chasing the suspect, the thing that puts his professional life in danger.
20 January 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
15 May 1961, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
11 May 1982, Orlando, Florida, USA
27 January 1976, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
4 May 1977, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2 November 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
25 April 1940, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
3 February 1965, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 February 1928, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
26 June 1964, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
17 December 1970, Vancouver, Canada
22 December 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
17 July 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
19 August 1957, Reseda, California, USA
11 May 1970, South Dakota, USA
21 July 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 25, 2014
Who allowed these performances, or maybe even encouraged them? Christopher Nolan, that's who. He was so intent on dolloping pizazz onto this story that he didn't notice the visual syrup was drowning a six-inch stack of toaster waffles.
August 25, 2014
In the world of Christopher Nolan, memory is still as treacherous as nitroglycerin.
August 05, 2013
The film represents a triumph of atmosphere over a none-too-mysterious mystery. Which is to say that Nolan makes you feel the end-of-the-earth bleakness of his setting, makes you feel the way it can discombobulate people once they internalize it.
August 25, 2014
Like Memento, it invites viewing over and over again.
August 05, 2013
Scene by scene, screenwriter Hillary Seitz follows director Erik Skjoldbjaerg's original closely, but this remake deepens and improves upon the Norwegian film by giving Dormer a more complex relationship with Eckhart.
August 05, 2013
Christopher Nolan's Insomnia adds 11 minutes to the Norwegian movie of the same name and manages to make everything that was fleeting and tantalizing in the original weighty, literal and dull.
August 05, 2013
A smart, intricately constructed thriller, the film has far more on its mind than just who done it.
August 25, 2014
Nolan uses Pacino the icon as much as Pacino the actor, and the latter turns in one of his best performances, almost vanity free.
August 25, 2014
Insomnia proves that Memento wasn't a fluke: Nolan is a major talent with many more good films ahead of him.
August 25, 2014
Insomnia is not so much about the murder mystery as it is about Will's internal struggle with what's right and what's possibly okay.
March 17, 2016
...evocative imagery, a compelling story, and one of Pacino's best performances of the 21st century.
