Awake

This is a neo-noir that never generates any spark.

A thriller that promises to start quickly and find a fresh twist or two by the end, and fails at both.

Just an average suspense movie but if you are a Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Francesca Eastwood fan like me it is worth watching.

"Ultimately, [Awake] is a throwback to the crime thrillers of the 1990s and early 2000s, which isn't a bad thing but it hardly feels new. But while the story is simple, Malik and Meyer's acting is superb."

... squanders a potentially intriguing concept with a series of far-fetched twists that fail to withstand the slightest logical scrutiny.

A would-be thriller so convoluted that it takes nearly a third of its running-time for answers to be laboriously doled out at the end.

Awake (2019) releases its grip very early in the narrative.