In director Mark Raso’s occasionally engaging but mostly frustrating sci-fi thriller, an unexplained event causes a massive electromagnetic pulse that fries most electronics and leaves nearly all o…
” took me three separate sittings to get through. I just couldn’t help nodding off. Maybe it was all that talk of a world where people can no longer recharge their brains that made me want to cash in on 40 winks of my own. Or maybe I was too tired to be reviewing something from my couch.
Raso’s references are obvious. There’s Netflix’s own hit “Bird Box,” of course, as well as several tense extended single-shot sequences — one trapped inside a car with Jill and her family, another observing her creep around a garage — clearly inspired by “Children of Men.” But DP Alan Poon is no Emmanuel Lubezki, and this world never feels as threatening. That’s because the screenwriters haven’t sufficiently worked out their operating premise here.
OK, but can people really die from lack of shut-eye? How long does that take, and wouldn’t it be hitting everyone on more or less the same schedule? “Awake” actually becomes a lot more fun to watch as it goes on, since Rodriguez’s already intense performance grows ever more unhinged as the movie attempts to mirror its characters’ increasingly delirious state of mind.
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