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  Review by kársten ★★★½ 34

  could never happen to dunkaccino

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 11

  The MTV Movie Awards should have created a "best tired as hell performance" category just for Al Pacino

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 6

  oh mr nolan how very david fincher of you!

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  "Can't sleep...clown'll eat me." -- Al Pacino

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  Review by Bruno ★★★★ 18

  Insomnia is a remake of the Norwegian film that came out in 1997 and while it shares the exact same plot, I thought Christopher Nolan made a well-crafted psychological thriller with some solid performances. I don’t usually approve remakes that try to emulate the story of the original without bringing anything new, but I haven’t seen the Norwegian version so I can’t compare them. While it might seem like a predictable and generic detective film at first, once the little twist happens we are drawn into a very interesting confrontation between the killer and one of the detectives. The hallucinatory sequences get a bit repetitive, but I appreciate the technical prowess shown there. The moral conflicts lived by Will Dormer…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 6

  Love the concept of exploring the psyche of a bad cop who thinks he’s a good cop. Do not love Pacino’s performance. It’s all weird drawls and growls, plus lots of blank stares and wrinkled foreheads with the occasional “GAHHHBAGE DUMP!”s. Nolan had room to improve, and then he did.

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  Review by Evan ★★★★ 3

  I am very impressed by both Al Pacino and Robin Williams. Both of these gentlemen give great performances in this entertaining thriller! I didn't know Robin Williams had a performance like this in him. I'm surprised I hadn't seen this Nolan film sooner.

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

  Ugh yessss I love it when men do dumb things

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  Review by Ryan Daniel ★★★★ 6

  “You’re about as mysterious to me as a blocked toilet is to a fucking plumber.”

  One of the weaker Nolan films, but it’s still a great movie. I wish Robin Williams had done more movies with Nolan, because he was much more reserved and psychological than a lot of his other performances and it was interesting to watch.

  I think this movie is so overshadowed because it’s so much more tame than all of Nolan’s other films. It still has a lot of the same style, but in a more subtle way.

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  Review by john

  wildly engaging, painfully predictable

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★ 11

  Christopher Nolan's first stint with a major Hollywood studio is a remake of the Norwegian thriller of the same name and is termed by many critics to be one of the rare instances of an American remake done right. I haven't seen the original so I can't compare the two but one can make out that it tries to create its own identity instead of following the same footsteps.

  The story of Insomnia concerns Will Dormer; a Los Angeles homicide detective who, along with another detective, is dispatched to a small Alaskan town to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen. When an attempt to apprehend the suspect results in a tragic incident, things soon turn worse for Will…

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  Review by George Clark ★★★½ 12

  Nolan’s Filmography Ranked-HERE

  Insomnia is a 2002 American psychological crime film directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney and Martin Donovan. The films storyline follows two Los Angeles homicide detectives as they investigate a murder in Nightmute, Alaska. 

  Finally, after months of trying, I’ve managed to finish Christopher Nolan‘s directorial filmography with my first viewing of Insomnia. Going into this film it’s fair to say I was sceptical, I’ve always known Nolan to be this outrageous mega blockbuster director with iconic movies such as Inception, TDK and Interstellar often being considered as some of the best movies of the last decade. So what seemed like a simple indie crime film worried me slightly…