Before I Go to Sleep

This is 50 First Dates-dark, but lacking that film's humor, characterizations, dramatic interest, and consistency.

Before I Go To Sleep vacillates so wildly between aims and issues that the conceit seems worthless.

It's hard to tell if the film is hampered or helped by the performances of its three stars, because it's so amateurishly written and directed that their participation beggars belief.

Kidman and Firth are both excellent in their sadness and savagery, and Joffe builds tension far better than most of the horror movies available at your local Cineplex this Halloween weekend.

There's no edge, no pulp, no grit under its fingernails.

Throbbing musical crescendos and flickery flashbacks abound but apart from some outlandish plot machinations, nothing here is good or bad enough to be memorable.

Director Rowan Joffe has made a stylish looking movie but allows it to get bogged down by repetition and too-tame performances.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the majority of you will have it figured out rather early on.

The film started out slow but ended in way that didn't feel drawn out or rushed and that's pretty surprising for a film that's about hour and a half in runtime.

Before I Go to Sleep is entertaining, accomplishing effectively what it sets out to do.