Oh my god, what did he do?!? Dario Argento, one of the greatest European directors has delivered a movie, which makes you ask what was going on in his brain when he was filming it. Everything was so promising: "Sleepless" was supposed to be back-to-the-roots, its score is composed by "Goblin", effects by Sergio Stivaletti and with Max von Sydow there is an international star leading the cast. What would Argento have done with a staff like this in the seventies or eighties? Well, in 2001 he does nothing: The story is nonexistent, the acting is just plain bad -the worst actor of them all is allowed to play the killer!-, "Goblin"s great score is used ineffectively and there is neither suspense nor atmosphere. But the worst thing of all is that Argento has forgotten what made his earlier films great: His use of the camera and his great visual sense. "Sleepless" just looks cheap. There is only one Argentoesque moment (a camera going alongside a carpet) - the rest is boredom. In one magazine I read that "Sleepless" looks like an old movie of Argento, which he forgot in the drawer - yeah, and he must be stupid to get it out now.
Review of Sleepless
