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With humankind unable to sleep and think clearly, growing increasingly irrational and violent after an unprecedented global phenomenon that wiped out all electronics, Jill, a former U.S. Army medic and widowed mother-of-two, finds herself struggling to keep her kids safe. Now, as scientists all over the world seem to fight a losing battle, the mysterious, worldwide plague of insomnia threatens to eradicate the entire human species, and undoubtedly, this is the end of the world as we know it. However, what if Jill's ten-year-old daughter, Matilda, holds the key to a cure? Can sleep-deprived Jill protect her children when everyone has only a few days to live? —Nick Riganas.
Uploaded By: FREEMAN
Aug 15, 2021 at 03:57 PM
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Cast
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Jennifer Jason Leigh as Jennifer Jason Leigh as
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Julia Chantrey as Nurse
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Lucius Hoyos as Lucius Hoyos as
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Patrick Garrow as Neck Tattoo
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People be dumb! - Spoliers
The premise sounded very good, I had high hopes going in, but the plot becomes really silly, really quickly, with time never really being shown in any kind of consistent manner. Somehow this film manages to be stupidly fast paced and ridiculously slow at the same time, a feat I've never seen in a film before. It could have been explained so simply with a small subtitle day 1, day 2 etc and it would have made more sense.People became bloodthirsty within hours, which made no sense at all. There are a lot of questions which are never answered: The scene with the prisoners, explained as "the guards came back and opened the doors" why? It agains makes no sense, a simply and more plausible answer would have been "the doors were electronically opened when the event happened. Done.Why did the one prisoner save them? Never explained. How did he suddenly reappear at the hub with the family having no idea where the family were? Never explained.Why was dodge seemingly able to function better than most? How did he die? Never answered.Now onto the massive plot hole... I figured out the reason pretty much straight away, it was so obvious and yet no one in the film asked the basic question, what happened to the girl that hadn't happened to the others? A team of scientists never even asked. She died and was revived, simple.When the girl finally figures it out, why did they take the mom to the lake to drown her? Why not just put a pillow over her head right there and use the defibrillator? I'm guessing the director wanted to use water as a kind of "baptism" but why go down a religious route at the end after showing the religious people in the film to be nutters?Poorly written, poorly edited and poorly directed which is a real shame as the acting itself wasn't too bad.
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The inevitable annoying main charcaters
Always it seems in these types of films, there's the irritating angsty teenager, the smart little kid who holds the secret and the incredibly annoying Mom who acts as though she's going to save the world single handed.And of course it's American and therefore they just start shooting each other for no reason whatsoever right from the get go.I love this genre but when will we ever get decent writers and actors again?
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You'll do well to STAY Awake watching this
Dull, dull, dull.A great premise ruined by a very pedestrian script, poor acting and a non-conclusion. This film tries to be clever and fails. For such a short movie it dragged and I really wanted to like it more, but couldn't engage with the characters or the perceived peril they were in.Avoid.
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