![]() However, there is a twist half way through the movie that takes some of the edge off but nobody's perfect. Plus, it helps that all the depserate characters each have their specific motivations. Of course, you have to keep the plates spinning non-stop which this movie does with a great deal of skill. "Sleepless Night" proves that all you need for a well-crafted lean and mean crime thriller is some drugs, guns and one cool location, plus maybe a sense of humor. She reports all of this to Lacombe(Julien Boisselier), her supervisor, who is in cahoots with Manuel. The exchange would have gone well if Vignali(Lizzie Brochere), an internal affairs detective, had not been trailing him and moved the drugs from its hiding spot. Oh, and Jose Marciano(Serge Riaboukine) would very much like his drugs back, if it is not too much trouble, as he has Vincent's son Thomas(Samy Seghir). That is now one crime that Vincent and Manuel have to investigate in their day job as police detectives. Since one of the victims brought a knife to a gun fight, things do not go perfectly as Vincent is stabbed and there is one dead. The two leads brighten it up a little bit but it is hard not to see the glaring lack of originally and spark at pretty much every turn."Sleepless Night" starts with Vincent(Tomer Sisley) and Manuel(Laurent Stocker) robbing an illegal drug shipment. ![]() However the majority of us will see something that lacks any real effort and it doesn't encourage me to do much into it when watching. It is fairly forced and contrived which was a problem but bits of it rose above the rest and generally it provided just enough to be distracting for those in an undemanding mood. Overall then a totally by-the-numbers, obvious little romantic comedy. Cleese is embarrassing and can do nothing with the poor material he is served with it is pretty much below him and it shows. Hawn is a bit less convincing but is still quite amusing the only problem with her is that she has to carry the more emotionally complex character and she can't get that right and mainly just overplays it for easy laughs, robbing the film of the engaging realism that it needed to have if it really wanted to pull off the emotional ending (which of course it doesn't actually want to do!). Martin is only ever a hair away from mugging but, although not a shade on his former glory, he fits the lazy tone well. Even with the rather obvious material to work with, they do work well together and produce some laughs where they may not have existed on the page. Part of the film working (albeit on this level) is the partnership of Martin and Hawn. Most viewers (myself included) will find it all a bit obvious and weak but the undemanding will maybe find it amusing enough to serve as a distraction. The plot bumbles along from one unlikely scenario to the next most of them are ho-hum but occasionally it tickled me. So that is just what we get and if that is OK with you then you should be alright, although hardly impressed. And from the very start it is obvious that Lawrence has produced his usual standard and that director Weisman has no aspirations to do more than churn out a rather derivative but amusing rom-com. Actually getting into Manhattan is only the first challenge in an eventful 24 hours that could only happen in New York! Nothing about this film suggested that it would be anything special in fact the presence of Marc Lawrence as writer only promised the sort of safely comic humour that he produced with Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality and similar projects. However a fog-bound city sees them diverted to Boston and struggling to get to their destination. Having had their last child move out of the house the day before, Nancy isn't sure what to do with her time and decides to join Henry on his trip to New York. Henry has lost his job but has kept it secret and plans to get a new job in New York. Henry and Nancy Clark have been married for 24 years and it is starting to show.
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