Sleepless
Open Road Films (II) | Release Date: January 13, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJan 14, 2017
It might not be Donald Westlake, but it does its thing: meaningless, nonstop violence and movement, enacted by a large cast of characters who are only looking out to survive into the next scene. Read full review
50
Screen DailyWendy IdeMay 22, 2017
Swiss director Baran bo Odar leans heavily on bone-crunching sound design and a percussive score which rumbles over the film like a pursuing helicopter. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael NordineJan 26, 2017
Monaghan and Foxx, for all their gifts, can't transcend the material, though they do get more out of it than most others would be able to. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJan 13, 2017
Odar does his best to manipulate Las Vegas’ seedy underbelly (City of Sin, after all), but so much of Sleepless feels like recycled, seen-it-before action genre gristle. The stuff you chew while hoping a little fatty goodness is left. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJan 13, 2017
Sleepless is one of those movies that needed to be a lot better or a lot worse to make much of an impression. Read full review
42
The Film StageJohn FinkJan 15, 2017
Sleepless isn’t intellectually offensive or even all that embarrassing for the talent involved. Beat by beat, right down to its twists, it’s a predictable January thriller. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 22, 2017
There are only so many ways Foxx can hobble around with a stab wound and pick up multiple cellphones before the very sight of him gets silly: after a while, it’s like watching fatigued takes of the same scene over and over again. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJan 18, 2017
Sleepless is a passable thriller, but it won’t keep you up for nights. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJan 13, 2017
A stylish surface goes only so far to disguise the fact that we’re being sold some pretty cut-rate goods. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanJan 12, 2017
Sleepless is a propulsive thin exercise, “energetic” but tedious, the kind of January movie that Jamie Foxx should have permanently graduated from. Foxx is too good an actor — taut and committed — to phone in his performance, yet that hardly matters, since the whole movie is phoned in. It’s far from incompetent, but it’s a who-cares? thriller. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 18, 2017
It’s altogether ridiculous, made all the sadder because we’ve seen this ridiculousness before. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 12, 2017
Never rising above the level of generic B-movie, Sleepless represents the sort of disposable fare typically dropped into theaters in January. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 13, 2017
If Sleepless feels like the microwaved leftovers of a dish that was designed to be swallowed whole, Foxx is the frozen part in the middle, the bite that makes you regret that someone tried to heat this up in the first place. Read full review
25
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJan 13, 2017
The existence of a movie like Sleepless constitutes definite proof that there aren’t enough good scripts to go around; Foxx, Monaghan, Mulroney and Union (who finally gets introduced into the action in the silliest way possible) deserve much better than this. Read full review
20
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 13, 2017
Sleepless, directed by Baran bo Odar, sets a low bar for itself, and then trips over it. Read full review
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