I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Name: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: June 18, 2004
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malcolm McDowell

2004

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Paramount Classics | Release Date: June 18, 2004 | R

Starring: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malcolm McDowell

Summary: An exploration of family, revenge and the conflicts inherent in trying to escape one's past. (Paramount Classics)

Director: Mike Hodges

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Roger Ebert

Mike Hodges' gritty new film noir I'll Sleep When I'm Dead begins in enigma and snakes its way into stark clarity. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

The spare and unsparing tone of I'll Sleep When I'm Dead makes it as existential -- and as original -- a whodunit as they come. Read full review

Carla Meyer

In I'll Sleep When I'm Dead,' master of stylish criminality Mike Hodges presents a nighttime London of sharp suits, distorted jazz notes and shiny luxury sedans cruising dirty streets. Read full review

Keith Phipps

At times, this makes the film easier to appreciate than it is to watch: The story is perfectly clear, but the film's style takes its cues from the characters' oblique emotions in a way designed to freeze viewers out. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Director Mike Hodges and screenwriter Trevor Preston's dark revenge tale strips its crime-story cliches of their hopped-up energy and seedy glamour, leaving nothing but sordid sadness. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

This sad, dark movie moves across the screen like a sleepwalker, aloof and belonging neither to this world or the next. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Wallows in the same affected retro stylishness as the earlier film (Croupier), suffers from the same lack of narrative focus, and is just as choked with clichés. Read full review

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CharlotteP

Apr 13, 2011

Clive Owen is on smouldering form as a retired gangster reluctantly drawn back to London to find out why his brother died. Slow-paced, but intense, with a low-key but believable finale, a nice performance from a grave-faced and dignified Charlotte Rampling and, unusually, Rhys-Meyers playingClive Owen is on smouldering form as a retired gangster reluctantly drawn back to London to find out why his brother died. Slow-paced, but intense, with a low-key but believable finale, a nice performance from a grave-faced and dignified Charlotte Rampling and, unusually, Rhys-Meyers playing to his strengths as the callow brother overcome with humiliation. Arguably Owen has the presence to elevate even the most pedestrian movie into something interesting but there's enough going on amongst the other players to keep the attention throughout.… Expand

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DanC.

Nov 4, 2005

Clive Owen is so good that the film rates a 7 on the strength of his performance alone. It's a humorless (and therefore incomplete) look at London gangster life, but oddly compelling.

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KelR.

Oct 3, 2005

I agree with Brian G. I had high hopes for this movie and boy was I disappointed.

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