![]() (I won’t mention who plays the mystery corrupt cop, but the person chosen for the role makes that twist predictable from the get-go.) For his part, the talented McNairy tries his best to kick out the jams and infuse his two-dimensional villain with some sadistic verve, but even his big moments start to feel repetitive. ![]() 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. Instead, we get lots of people threatening each other, Vincent’s wife Dena (Gabrielle Union) doing that concerned-mom-on-the-phone thing, composer Michael Kamm’s score churning into overdrive over nothing, and more of those skyline shots.Īlso Read: Jamie Foxx to Host Interactive Game Show 'Beat Shazam' on Fox But Jennifer has taken half of the cocaine for evidence, not knowing that Vincent is undercover, and this confluence of events should lead to some ticking-clock suspense. Johnson, “Ray Donovan”) to get the drugs back – and just in case you missed that, either Rubino or Novak bellows, “WHERE ARE MY DRUGS?” every five minutes or so. Rubino’s men have kidnapped Vincent’s teenage son Thomas (Octavius J. She tails Vincent to a casino run by Rubino (Dermot Mulroney) turns out that cocaine was promised by the hotel owner to sweaty narcotics magnate Rob Novak (Scoot McNairy), who’s definitely not the kind of guy you want to short-change – he just cut out his cousin’s tongue for getting too chatty with the DEA. When Vincent gets himself and Sean assigned to the shootout crime scene to cover their tracks, he rouses the suspicions of IA detective Jennifer (Michelle Monaghan), still punchy from a recent double-cross and beating during a meth-lab investigation. See Video: Watch Jamie Foxx Pursue Kidnappers Through the Streets of Vegas in 'Sleepless' Trailer (We learn this thanks to a handy headshots-and-yarn bulletin board on the wall of Vincent’s apartment, the tried-and-true visual shorthand for so many movie and TV investigations.) Wouldn’t you know it, though, Vincent is actually undercover for IA, trying to figure out which high-ranking police official is pulling Sean’s strings. is teeming with corrupt cops, and Vincent Downs (Jamie Foxx) is seemingly one of them we meet him and his partner Sean (T.I.) committing a masked armed robbery that leads to several goons dying in a shootout and the two officers making off with a bag containing 25 kilos of cocaine. Much of the action takes place in an unconvincing casino set, and editor Robert Rzesacz continually defuses the tension by throwing in as many helicopter shots of the Strip as there are pans of the San Francisco skyline in “The Room.” Remaking the French thriller “Nuit Blanche,” screenwriter Andrea Berloff (“Blood Father,” “Straight Outta Compton”) and Swiss director Baran bo Odar transpose the action to Las Vegas, but Sin City adds little sizzle. You could pretty much play American Police Film bingo, checking off squares like “undercover badass,” “tough-as-nails Internal Affairs lady,” “bug-eyed drug kingpin,” and “hero KOs guy twice his size and then magically fits into his jumpsuit.” If HBO aired a show called “Fake Detective,” the results might resemble “Sleepless,” a cop movie so utterly riddled with cliché as to verge on parody.
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